COLLEGE ROUNDUP : CLU Beats Redlands in Key Game, 4-0

Darrell McMillin smacked his 18th home run of the season in the first inning Friday to start Cal Lutheran on its way to a 4-0 win over host Redlands, moving the Kingsmen closer to clinching the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference baseball title.

Cal Lutheran (31-2, 15-1 in conference play) leads second-place Redlands by three games in the SCIAC standings. The teams will meet again in a doubleheader at CLU this morning at 11.

CLU survived a scare in the fifth inning when starting pitcher Pat Norville had to leave the game with what later was diagnosed as a minor sprain of his right ankle. Mike Teron came on with one out and two runners on base and an 0-and-2 count on Redlands’ Mike Kon. After walking Kon to load the bases, Teron struck out Marc DiCarlo and retired Chadd Cook on a fly to left.

Redlands is 17-12-1, 12-4.

In other baseball games:

Oxnard 5, Santa Barbara City 3--Oxnard ended its season with a bang, scoring five times in the eighth inning of a Western State Conference game at Santa Barbara.

Chris Samuels had a run-scoring double and Steve Susko contributed a run-scoring single to the rally. Adrian Estrada and Steve Susko each had two hits for Oxnard (6-24, 5-15).

Harbor 9-5, Mission 8-0--David Rosato’s bases-loaded single scored Bill Inman with the winning run in the 14th inning of the first game at Harbor.

The game was a continuation of an April 1 Southern California Conference contest that was halted after 12 innings with the scored tied, 8-8.

In the scheduled game, a four-run sixth inning turned a close game into a rout for Harbor (31-9, 14-3).

Mission is 15-17-1, 8-9.

SOFTBALL

Cal Lutheran 3-3-15, La Verne 1-2-3--Stacy Donaldson pitched the Kingsmen (26-12, 17-3) to three SCIAC wins at CLU.

Donaldson’s two-run home run in the 10th inning keyed Cal Lutheran’s 3-1 victory in a makeup game that preceded the scheduled doubleheader.

In the second game, Brenda Frafjord’s three-run double in the seventh erased a 2-0 deficit. CLU scored 12 runs in the fourth inning of the final game, which was called after 4 1/2 innings.

Moorpark 5, Bakersfield 2--Kathi Morales had two hits and two runs batted in for host Moorpark (28-10, 9-0) in a WSC win.