Hart High (22-2 overall), the top-ranked team...

Hart High (22-2 overall), the top-ranked team in The Times’ regional poll, finished 15-0 in Foothill League play, five games ahead of second-place Schurr (10-5).

How did the Indians do it? Statistics--at least in this case--do not lie.

Hart is averaging 7.6 runs a game while batting a collective .328. The pitching staff’s earned-run average is 2.79 and Hart has limited opponents to 3.8 runs a game. Hart outscored league competitors, 122-54.

Seven starters are batting better than .300. Senior shortstop John Aguilar--who has a school-record nine home runs this season, including five in the past 10 games--leads the team with a .480 batting average and team-high totals of four triples, five doubles and 38 runs batted in.

Among the other heavy hitters: Soren Halladay (.436), Doug Distaso (.405), Frank Sanchez (.351), Ted Kiester (.333), Casey Niccum (.333) and Alan Ray (.302).

Batting: Chaminade ended its 21-game losing streak last week with a 3-2 upset of St. Bernard, but two players produced consistently throughout the spring. Outfielders Brian Powers and Ted Corcoran played in all 26 games and hit safely in 23 and 22 games, respectively. Corcoran, a senior left-hander, finished the season with a 14-game hitting streak and batted .442 overall (38 for 86) with 24 RBIs. Powers, a junior, batted a team-high .472 (42 for 89) with eight homers and 25 RBIs.

Canoga Park’s Glenn Davis leads the region’s City Section players with 11 doubles. . . . Van Nuys senior Patrick Alvarado leads the Valley Pac-8 Conference with 30 hits. Alvarado is 30 for 66 (.455).

Baserunning: David Cantella of Burroughs finished his two-year varsity career with 35 stolen bases in as many attempts. Cantella was 19 for 19 this season, 16 for 16 as a junior and, for good measure, nine for nine in American Legion play last summer.

Pitching: What do the top three pitchers from each of Poly and Monroe have in common? All six sport ERAs below 2.00. Monroe’s Jorge Dorado (6-1, 1.62) has struck out 62 in 56 1/3 innings, Robert Ballester (5-0, 1.00) has given up just five runs in 35 innings and Adrian Lovrich (3-2, 1.86) has walked only six in 37 2/3 innings.

For Poly, senior left-hander Allen Alegria (7-2, 1.72) leads the pack. Senior right-hander Eric Diaz (6-2, 1.78) is close behind, and relief specialist Reynaldo Gutierrez (2-0, two saves, 1.91) has given up just six runs in 22 innings.

Simi Valley junior pitcher Trevor Leppard has appeared in 17 games, two shy of Scott Radinsky’s 1986 school-record. Leppard is 7-1 with three saves.

Crescenta Valley’s 5-9-1 Pacific League record and fifth-place finish was brightened by the performance of 5-foot-5 sophomore left-hander Jim Parque. Parque was 3-2 with a 2.90 ERA and 36 strikeouts in 31 1/3 innings. . . . Junior right-hander Brendon Cowsill, who was 2-3 with a 4.67 ERA in 24 innings also will return next season.

Quartz Hill sophomore right-hander Javier Salinas emerged as the Rebels’ top pitcher down the stretch. Salinas finished 6-3 with a 3.39 ERA and 52 strikeouts in 53 2/3 innings. Salinas pitched a four-hitter in a 2-0 win over Palmdale two weeks ago. Last week, Salinas earned the win in relief in an 8-6 victory over first-place Saugus.

Miscellaneous: Thousand Oaks was all thumbs this season in winning only four of 26 games. The Lancers (4-21-1) committed 94 errors, an average of 3.62 a game. . . . Westlake, which committed 82 errors in 23 games, was not far behind, averaging 3.57.

Channel Islands Coach Don Cardinal, who will retire after this season, has a record of 429-220-4 (.657) in 26 seasons. . . . Simi Valley’s Kevin Nykoluk, who hit nine home runs in Simi Valley’s first 16 games, has not hit a home run since April 16. Nykoluk, a junior center fielder, has 16 home runs in his career.

Track and field: Sophomore Dolores Tuimoloau of Channel Islands became the third girl from the region to put the shot more than 40 feet this season when she set a personal best of 41 feet 3 inches in the Southern Section 3-A Division preliminaries Saturday. The others are juniors Nada Kawar of Crescenta Valley (45-9 1/2) and Crystal Brownlee of Westlake (44-8 1/2).

Four of the region’s top seven boys’ high jumpers are sophomores. Jeremy Fischer of Camarillo leads the region with a best of 6-11 1/2 and Jim Romero of L. A. Baptist is second at 6-8 1/4. James Lincoln of Birmingham is tied for fifth at 6-7 1/4 and Josh Fant of Agoura is seventh at 6-6.

Marcus Stokes of Thacher ran a personal-best and region-leading time of 38.56 seconds in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles in the Southern Section 1-A preliminaries. Stokes, a senior, also leads the region in the 110-meter high hurdles (14.41) and is fourth on the list in the long jump (22-7 1/4).

Statistics are current through Monday.

Regional Baseball

Top 10 Selected by sportswriters of The Times

Lst. Rk Wk Team League Record 1 1 Hart Foothill 21-2 2 3 Simi Valley Marmonte 19-6 3 4 Crespi Mission 19-5 4 8 Rio Mesa Channel 17-5-1 5 5 Saugus Golden 19-5-1 6 7 Monroe Mid-Valley 17-3-1 7 3 Channel Islands Marmonte 20-6 8 NR Poly East Valley 18-4 9 9 Granada Hills North Valley 16-6 10 10 Royal Marmonte 18-7

NR--Not ranked