Depth Wins at Orange County

The Mission Viejo boys and the Santa Margarita girls used superior depth to win their respective team titles in the Orange County track and field championships Saturday at Mission Viejo Trabuco Hills.

Mission Viejo, which scored in 11 of 16 events, totaled 70 points to win its second boys’ title in three years. Cypress and Los Alamitos tied for second with 56 points each.

Mission Viejo’s lone victory came from senior John Morse, who won the long jump with a leap of 22 feet 1 inch.

Santa Margarita scored 63 points for its second girls’ championship in a row and fourth in eight years. La Palma Kennedy finished second with 52 points, followed by Mission Viejo with 47.

Santa Margarita scored in 10 events. Junior Lauren Collins won its lone victory in the 100-meter high hurdles in 14.59 seconds.

The top individual performances came from Irvine University senior Chad Smith, who won the boys’ shotput with a yearly state-leading mark of 62-6 1/4, and senior Whitney Johnson of Mission Viejo, who won the girls’ pole vault at 12-8 to move to second on the yearly state list.

-- John Ortega

Softball

Freshman Noelle Micka led off the game with a single, advanced on a sacrifice bunt and later scored on freshman Monica Harrison’s single to help give No. 2 Garden Grove Pacifica a 1-0 victory over No. 12 Thousand Oaks in the title game of the Irvine Woodbridge Classic at Barber Park in Irvine.

Brittany Weil gave up only four hits, but two came in the seventh inning before she got her ninth strikeout with runners at first and third to end the game. Pacifica is 21-2.

In the San Fernando Valley tournament title game, West Hills Chaminade defeated Westlake Village Westlake, 14-8, behind the play of most valuable player Veronica Barth.

In the semifinals, Westlake defeated Westlake Village Oaks Christian, 4-1, to end the Lions’ winning streak at 46 games, four short of the Southern Section record held by Santa Maria Righetti.

-- Martin Henderson

Swimming

The defending meet-champion Irvine girls’ team won again and the Irvine boys’ team won the meet for the first time since 2001, and the Vaqueros swept to victory in the Foothill Swim Games at Santa Ana Foothill.

Senior Courtney Cashion touched out Villa Park senior Jessica Cruzat, the girls’ swimmer of the meet, on the anchor leg of the 400 freestyle relay in the last event of the day to secure the Vaqueros’ girls’ victory.

Irvine, ranked No. 6 in the Southland by The Times, scored 218 points to edge No. 2-ranked Villa Park, which had 213.

Cashion also had two individual victories in the sprint freestyles and she anchored a 200 free relay team with Jane Hwang, Jenny Bailey and Tanya Nielsen that set a meet record by 13 one-hundredths of a second by winning in 1:39.43.

The Irvine boys’ team, ranked No. 4 but swimming in the shadows of other Orange County teams all season after sixth-place finishes in Division I finals the past two years, also relied on its relays to win with 205 points.

-- Lauren Peterson

Baseball

Fans and scouts who came to watch top prospects Mark Trumbo of Villa Park and Matt Bush of San Diego Mission Bay got their money’s worth in an intersectional doubleheader between the teams at Cal State Fullerton.

Trumbo, who signed with USC, ignited a two-run rally in the bottom of the sixth inning of the first game, leading off with his second double off Bush, then retired the side in order in the seventh to secure a 3-2 victory.

Trumbo (8-1) gave up five hits and struck out five. The Spartans, who entered the week ranked No. 1 in the Southland by The Times, were coming off an 8-4 loss to Tustin in a Century League game Friday.

Bush (4-1) signed with San Diego State but is expected to be drafted high as a shortstop in June.

He had a leadoff single and scored in the first, popped out and hit into a double play.

Trumbo had a two-run single in the fifth inning of the second game, which Villa Park (18-2) won, 4-0, for a sweep.

-- Dan Arritt