Royal Flush at Ventura County Championships

Simi Valley Royal won its second consecutive boys’ and girls’ titles in the Ventura County cross-country championships at Lake Casitas on Friday.

Royal, paced by second-place Tim Hearst, had six of the top 14 finishers in the boys’ race and had 31 points. Fillmore was second with 74 points and Camarillo was next at 94.

“We just wanted to get the team closer,” Royal boys’ Coach Ryan Luce said. “We wanted to get [our grouping] closer as we prepare” for the Southern Section Division I championships.

Senior Phillip Reid of Oxnard Rio Mesa rolled to his second consecutive individual title, winning in 15 minutes 11 seconds over the three-mile layout that moved him into a tie for fifth on the course’s all-time list.

Hearst, a senior, clocked 15:37 in second for Royal.

Royal, paced by third-place finisher Sarah Montez, won the girls’ title with 50 points. Oak Park, the defending state Division IV champion, was second with 92 points and Ventura was third with 98.

Junior Lauren Morales of Oak Park won the girls’ race in 18:01 to move to fourth on the course’s all-time list, becoming the first runner from her school to win a county title.

Junior Katie Gose of Thousand Oaks La Reina finished second in 18:09 to move into a tie for fifth on the course’s all-time list and Montez was third in 18:18 to move to ninth on the all-time list.

-- John Ortega

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Huntington Beach Edison and Newport Harbor are the top two seeded teams for the Los Angeles Field Hockey Assn. high school tournament, scheduled to begin Tuesday. The tournament serves as a de facto Southern Section championship for the 11 section schools that field teams.

Edison (11-0-3) and Newport Harbor (10-0-4) finished the Sunset League season undefeated and played to a 0-0 draw in their league meeting on Oct. 22.

The Chargers will host eighth-seeded Fountain Valley (2-9-3), and Newport Harbor takes on seventh-seeded Huntington Beach Marina (5-5-4) at Harper School in Costa Mesa.

The other quarterfinal games feature No. 6 Huntington Beach (5-4-5) playing at No. 3 Santa Ana (8-2-4) and No. 5 La Verne Bonita (6-5-3) is at No. 4 North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake (8-2-4) at Moorpark College.

All quarterfinal and semifinal games are at 3 p.m. Semifinal games will be played Thursday.

The final is Nov. 9 at Pleasant View Park in Huntington Beach. The third-place game is at 10 a.m., with the title game following at noon.

-- Eric Maddy

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Erin Slettvet, a senior catcher at Anaheim Canyon, has committed to San Diego State to play softball.

Slettvet has a career batting average of .353, with 46 runs batted in and 70 assists in three seasons.

-- Martin Henderson