Newport Harbor took advantage of the second chance offered by the CIF Southern California Regional baseball playoffs and ended its season with a championship celebration.
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The Sailors beat Bakersfield Christian, 5-1, Saturday in the Division II regional championship game to give the Sunset League two regional champions.
The other champion was Huntington Beach, which defeated San Diego’s Cathedral Catholic 5-3 in the Division I regional final Saturday.
Newport Harbor lost to Ganesha in the CIF Southern Section Division 2 semifinals. Huntington Beach was eliminated in the third round of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs.
The Sailors concluded the season 25-10. They finished second to Huntington Beach in the Sunset League.
Newport Harbor won its second regional baseball championship. The Sailors won the Division III title in 2022.
Three Newport Harbor pitchers teamed up to hold Bakersfield Christian (28-7-1) to one run on four hits.
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Ryan Williams was the starter and pitched three innings. Grant Horsley followed and pitched one inning, and Gavin Guy finished the game with three scoreless innings.
The pitchers combined for 11 strikeouts, led by Guy with five strikeouts. Horsley and Williams had three strikeouts each.
Guy struck out the side in the seventh inning.
Bakersfield Christian took a 1-0 lead in the first inning.
Newport Harbor scored two runs in the second inning, with one of the runs scoring on Cameron Hatfield’s sacrifice fly.
Guy’s RBI single in the fifth inning drove in Keoni Wun to give the Sailors a 3-1 lead.
Brooks Francis walked with the bases load to send in another Newport Harbor run, and Henry Mann scored the Sailors’ fifth run on Hatfield’s ground out.
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