SPORTS ROUNDUP: San Marino High volleyball moves on in playoffs

BOYS VOLLEYBALL

San Marino 3, Paloma Valley 0: The Titans are on to the second round of the playoffs for the first time in three years after traveling to bump off Paloma Valley 25-17, 25-21, 22-25, 25-20 in Tuesday evening’s first round of the CIF Southern Section Division III playoffs.

With the win, the Titans improved to 18-12 and will face either San Gabriel Valley League champion Downey Warren (17-7) or Empire League fourth-place team Valencia Placentia (13-20) on Thursday at 7 p.m.

“We came out ready to play today,” Titans Coach Scott Barton said. “It’s always hard to play on the road, but we brought a lot of energy into the game and executed our strategy.”

San Marino’s Vincent Ma and Andrew Boon led the Titans with nine kills, while Dan Chee added 14 digs and Blake Kunitake tallied 38 assists.

La Salle 3, Redlands 0: For a second straight season, the Lancers advanced out of the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division IV playoffs, topping host Redlands, 25-19, 29-27, 25-21.

The victory vaults Del Rey League third-pace La Salle (21-6) into Thursday’s second round at home versus Del Rio League runner-up La Serna (19-6-2) on Thursday at 7 p.m.

“We altered out rotations and fine tuned some stuff,” La Salle Coach Tiare Tuitama said. “Our next competition will be a little bit harder, but I love that we’ll have our home crowd.”

Ben Dalgarn led the Lancers with 11 kills and two aces, while Jake Bragg added 21 assists and Conor Williams tallied 17 digs and 10 kills. Will Pyburn also contributed 12 digs and seven kills.

Pacifica Christian 3, Waverly 0: The season came to an end for the Ravens on Tuesday night as the visitors fell in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division V playoffs on Tuesday night 25-22, 25-13, 25-19.

“It’s still a good season for us, we just ran into a better team,” Waverly Coach Art Yang said.

Senior Laird Vlaming paced the Ravens (6-5) with nine kills as Waverly ended third in the International League this season.

Saddleback Valley Christian 3, Southwestern Academy 0: There was no surprise or upset Tuesday evening, as the Sun’s season came to end at divisional top-seeded Saddleback Valley Christian 25-8, 25-4, 25-9 in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division V playoffs.

Rilind Radoniqi paced the Sun (6-6) with five kills and three aces.

“Saddleback is definitely the top-ranked team in the division and they are the best team we saw this year,” Southwestern Coach Bob Gibbs said. “We had a great season to be proud of, but they had a 6-6 middle blocker and we haven’t seen a player over 6-2 this entire year.”

BASEBALL

Poly 18, Chadwick 4 (five innings): The Panthers smacked five extra-base hits and scored 15 runs combined in the second and third innings combined in a Prep League road victory Tuesday afternoon.

Sophomore Griffin Carter was four for five with two doubles, four RBIs and two runs scored. Joey Asperger drove in three runs for the Panthers (13-7, 7-3), who kept their league chances alive with the win.

Arcadia 4, Pasadena 2: A third straight loss dropped the Bulldogs under .500 after a Pacific League road loss Tuesday afternoon.

With the defeat, Pasadena is now 12-13, 5-8.

SOFTBALL

Poly 13, Mayfield Senior 9: The visiting Panthers scored seven runs in the first inning and didn’t look back en route to a 13-9 Prep League victory Tuesday afternoon.

With the win, Poly improved to 13-5 and 9-2 in league, while the Cubs dropped to 6-13 and 3-8.

Burbank 19, Muir 0 (five innings): It was no contest for the Mustangs, who surrendered 11 runs in the first inning of Pacific League play Tuesday in falling to 1-17 and 0-11 in league.

BOYS’ GOLF

San Marino at CIF Southern Section Northern Team Divisional: The Titans finished 10th out of 19 teams at Monday’s event, which was held at Soule Park Golf Course in Ojai. San Marino finished with a 403 and was led by Ben Allen, who carded a four-over-par 76. Andrew Doan had a 79 for the Titans, who got an 82 from Ben Wen and 83s from Charlie Allen and Brian Yao.