Camarillo Wins Despite Big Loss

Camarillo High baseball players held their breath when Delmon Young walked off the mound holding his elbow in pain.

Young, the promising sophomore pitcher-outfielder, left the game in the second inning of Camarillo’s 11-1 Pacific View League victory over Hueneme on Friday at Camarillo.

Young was diagnosed with a strained triceps tendon in his right elbow, said his father, Larry.

It was enough to make the Scorpions (8-2, 4-0 in league play) cringe.

The team’s No. 3 hitter, Young played on the U.S. Junior National team last summer and is regarded as one of the best high school sophomores in the country.

“It shouldn’t be anything serious, but he’s a 15-year-old and we’ll take it cautiously with him,” Coach Scott Cline of Camarillo said.

Larry Young said the injury would be reevaluated before Delmon returns.

Even without Young, Camarillo got 10 hits and scored five runs each in the third and sixth innings before the game was stopped in the sixth because of the 10-run rule.

“You gotta keep playing the game,” said catcher J.T. Bricker, who entered in the first inning after Mark Cardella injured a thumb.

“We were concerned for our guys, but we had to finish the job.”

Junior right-hander Travis Sutton (3-0), normally the closer, entered in the second inning and threw five shutout innings in his longest stint of the season.

He entered the game after Young faced six batters, walked four and threw a wild pitch.

Hueneme (5-5, 1-2) led, 1-0, when Young was removed.

Third baseman Justin Frash had three hits, including a two-run double in the five-run third inning.

Starter Chris Camacho (1-1) of Hueneme pitched well for two innings before unraveling in the third, when he walked four and threw two wild pitches.

“He pitched well for two innings and just mentally drifted out of the game in the third,” Hueneme Coach Reg Welker said.

Sutton allowed three hits in five innings and retired 11 of the last 14 Vikings.