COMMUNITY COLLEGE ROUNDUP : Cypress Sweeps Way to Tournament Title

Cypress swept Long Beach, winning twice by the score of 5-4 to win the Cypress baseball tournament Sunday at Cypress.

Cypress (7-2) trailed, 4-1, after four innings in the championship game but scored three runs in the sixth and one in the seventh.

David Trentine’s sacrifice fly drove in the winning run. He had a two-run double and Israel Gonzalez added a sacrifice fly in the sixth for the Chargers.

Josh Belovsky (2-0) had six strikeouts in six innings of relief for the victory.

Cypress rallied for four runs in the bottom of the ninth to win the first game. Gonzalez had a two-run double and scored on an error to tie it, 4-4. Eric Stevens had a two-out single to score Ken Granger with the winning run. Jeff Wozniak allowed two hits over the final five innings for the victory.

Gonzalez and Wozniak were the co-most valuable players of the tournament.

In the Southwestern tournament:

Rancho Santiago 16, Southwestern 3 (7 innings, mercy rule)--Darren Troilo had two hits, including a double, and drove in three runs for Rancho Santiago (7-2) in the title game at Chula Vista. Keith Cowley had two hits and scored three runs also for the Dons. Southwestern pitchers walked 13, 10 of whom scored.

The Dons moved into the title game with a 15-2 victory over San Bernardino Valley.

Troilo had three hits and two runs and Jason Minici, Joe Fraser and Cowley had two hits and two RBIs each.

In the Rancho Santiago softball tournament:

Cypress wins--The Chargers won four games, including beating Palomar, the defending State champion, twice to win the tournament title.

The Chargers (7-1) beat Palomar, 2-0, and, 3-0. Kim Stiglbauer pitched a two-hitter and never allowed two base runners in an inning. Kristi Krebs and Jenny Lopez had RBI singles in the 3-0 victory for Cypress, which was the State runner-up last season.

Briana Yoshina had a two-run single in the first inning of the 2-0 victory over Palomar. Jackie Ruiz pitched three-hitter.

Cypress beat Rancho Santiago, 4-2, and Mt. San Antonio, 5-0, also on Sunday to advance.