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By MIKE BRESNAHAN
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Highland was crowned the winner of the Bishop Gorman tournament in Las Vegas.

The Bulldogs were one of several teams to go 4-0 in the tournament, but they won the tiebreaker by allowing the fewest runs, 13.

In the process, Highland avenged an embarrassing 14-4 loss to El Camino Real earlier in the season.

The Bulldogs defeated the Conquistadores, 5-0, in Las Vegas. Matt Parris pitched a two-hitter and struck out 11, including the last four batters.

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“ECR is one of the established baseball programs in Southern California,” said Coach Mike Van Cheri of Highland. “We were really disappointed when we went [to El Camino Real] and didn’t have a good showing. This time, we got some very good pitching and some very good hitting.”

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Drew Pirtle (6-2), a left-handed senior, has allowed only three earned runs in his last 38 innings for Vasquez (10-3-1, 7-1 in the High Desert League).

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Mike Bresnahan

Mike Bresnahan previously covered the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times. He started the beat in 2004, a month after Shaquille O’Neal was traded, and covered several seasons of mediocrity before the Lakers won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. Now they’re back to mediocrity. Bresnahan is from Los Angeles, started with The Times after graduating the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and has also covered the L.A. Kings, pro beach volleyball and numerous colleges and high schools. He left The Times in 2016.

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