Edison Sputters in Championship
Andrew Mozeleski had two hits and a run batted in, but three Huntington Beach Edison pitchers combined for 11 walks and hit five batters and the Chargers, ranked No. 12 in the Southland by The Times, lost to Tucson (Ariz.) Catalina Foothills, 14-7, in the Blue Division championship game of the Las Vegas Bishop Gorman baseball tournament Saturday at Bishop Gorman.
Junior left-hander John Ward (2-1) took the loss after giving up seven runs in the second inning on three hits, two walks, an error and a hit batter. He did not record an out in the second and gave up five hits, walked five and struck out two in one-plus innings. The Chargers (11-4) gave up five runs in the third inning.
Mozeleski, who went two for three against Catalina Foothills (17-1), was eight for 15 in the tournament.
In other Bishop Gorman tournament Blue Division competition:
Brandon Rocha had a two-run double in the third inning and finished with three hits for No. 24 Los Alamitos, but the Griffins (10-5) lost to Las Vegas Bishop Gorman, 8-3, in the third-place game at Bishop Gorman.
Los Alamitos’ Ryan Prechtl hit a run-scoring single in the first, but Bishop Gorman batted around in its half of the inning and scored five runs.
Los Alamitos starter Danny Farris (2-1) pitched two innings, giving up seven runs, four earned, on eight hits.
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Softball
Christina Zambrana had three hits and drove in all the runs in support of most valuable player Brittany Weil for Garden Grove Pacifica, which defeated Santa Ana Foothill, 4-0, to claim the championship of the Foothill tournament for the second consecutive season.
Zambrana, a freshman left fielder, had a single, a two-run double in the fifth and a two-run triple in the third for the Mariners (11-1-1), ranked No. 1 in the Southland by The Times.
Weil (9-1), a senior right-hander, had a one-hitter with 12 strikeouts and one walk.
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Track and Field
Long Beach Wilson sophomore Ebony Collins and Long Beach Poly’s Shana Woods and Seqoiya Peggese each won two events at the Trabuco Hills Invitational in Mission Viejo.
Collins, the national freshman record-holder in the 300-meter low hurdles, won the 100 meters in a nation-leading time of 11.72 seconds and the 200 in 24.73 seconds.
Woods won the 100 high hurdles in a state-leading 14.21 seconds and won the 300 low hurdles in 43.10. Peggese went 18 feet, 7 inches in the long jump and 39-2 in the triple jump.
In a much anticipated matchup in the boys’ 400, Long Beach Poly’s Brayshon Nellum and Anaheim Esperanza’s Wes Williams scratched.
In their absence, Los Alamitos’ Justin Woods timed 48.69 to beat Newport Beach Sage Hill’s Zack Chandy (48.88).
