Like its Sunset League brethren, Newport Harbor took advantage of the second chance offered by the CIF Southern California Regional baseball playoffs to win the SoCal Regional Division II championship.<\/p>\n
The Sailors beat Bakersfield Christian, 5-1, Saturday in the SoCal Regional Division II championship game.<\/p>\n
Huntington Beach won the SoCal Regional Division I championship Saturday with a 5-3 win over San Diego Cathedral Catholic in the division final.<\/p>\n
Newport Harbor had lost to Ganesha in the CIF Southern Section Division 2 semifinals. Huntington Beach was eliminated in Round 3 of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs.<\/p>\n
The Sailors concluded the season 25-10. They finished second to Huntington Beach in the Sunset League.<\/p>\n
Newport Harbor won its second Regional baseball championship. The Sailors won the SoCal Regional Division III title in 2022.<\/p>\n
Three Newport Harbor pitchers teamed up to hold Bakersfield Christian (28-7-1) to one run on four hits. Ryan Williams was the starter and pitched three innings, Grant Horsley followed and pitched one inning, and Gavin Guy finished with three scoreless innings.<\/p>\n
They combined for 11 strikeouts. Guy had five strikeouts and Horsley and Williams had three strikeouts each. Guy struck out the side in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n
Bakersfield Christian had taken a 1-0 lead in the first inning. Newport Harbor scored two runs in the second inning that included a Cameron Hatfield sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n
Guy\u2019s RBI single in the fifth inning drove in Keoni Wun to make it 3-1, Sailors. Brooks Francis walked with the bases load to send in another Newport Harbor run and Henry Mann scored the Sailors fifth run on Hatfield\u2019s ground out.<\/p>\n
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