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Senior pitcher Wyatt Wood tossed his first complete game of the season Tuesday afternoon to help Glendora upset fourth-seeded Cypress, 5-2, in the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 2 baseball playoffs.

Wood, who has dealt with control issues in his first true year as a pitcher, gave up a two-run homer in the first inning but was spectacular the rest of the way. He responded with a two-run blast of his own in the bottom half of the inning.

"What he did was special," Glendora head coach Dan Henley said.

Glendora (18-9), which finished in a tie for first place in the Baseline League, will face Trabuco Hills on Friday. Cypress (25-7) became the latest team to fall in an upset -- top-seeded Harvard-Westlake also stumbled, losing 3-1 to Placentia Valencia.

"We knew we'd have to play all facets of the game to be competitive," Henley said. "We're a young team and I'd hate to use the term 'rebuilding' but this was a game our kids were looking forward to. ... [Wood] picked a great time to shine."

LA VERNE -- The pitcher with the funky delivery picked the right time to snap out of his funk.

Mission Viejo right-hander Anthony Shew had been knocked around in recent weeks, failing to fool opponents with his uncommon throwing motion. The senior seemed to recapture his deceptiveness in a complete-game effort Tuesday afternoon, leading the Diablos to a 9-1 victory over Damien in the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 2 baseball playoffs.

Defending section champion Mission Viejo advanced to the quarterfinals, where it will meet second-seeded Pacifica of Garden Grove on Friday.

Shew had been tagged for 35 hits over his last four starts but gave up just five -- all singles -- on Tuesday. The lone run Damien mustered came in the first inning. Shew struck out six and closed the door by retiring the last seven batters in order.

"It's great to see him bounce back," said senior first baseman Mitch Holland, whose three-run double in the fourth broke the game open. "He's one of my best friends and I know how hard it is on him when he doesn't pitch well."

Holland continued his torrid hitting. He had a pair of three-run home runs in a first-round win last week and, on Tuesday, extended his hot streak.

"He's a big, strong kid. He's been a three-year varsity player and a team leader," Mission Viejo head coach Chris Ashbach said. "He's the nicest kid in the world, so I couldn't be happier to see this happening for him right now."

Holland's bases-clearing rocket to dead center field knocked out Damien starting pitcher Grant Hockin, a highly regarded sophomore who has already verbally committed to play at UCLA. Hockin had beaten Mission Viejo, 3-0, in a tournament game at Chino last month.

"I've been hot lately and looking for the fastball early," Holland said. "He left the ball out over the plate after working me in and out really hard. I hit it hard and luckily it dropped."

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For those in Orange County looking for the best game on Tuesday in the second round of the playoffs—in baseball or softball—might we suggest filling the gas tank and heading to Simi Valley? Garden Grove Pacifica, ranked No. 2 in the nation by ESPN in softball, will play Simi Valley Royal, which is ranked No. 25.

Statewide, It's No. 2 vs. No. 8.

And, we remind you, this is a second-round game in the Southern Section Division 1 playoffs.

The Mariners, who were ranked No. 1 in the nation before losing their Empire League finale to Cypress, got three home runs in a 7-0 victory over Fullerton Rosary in the first round. It was the first time this season that Rosary had been shut out, but the Royals were unable to score against the pitching combo of Kaley Winegarner and Kaylee Carlson.

But unlike Rosary, Royal counters with one of the Southland's outstanding pitchers, Nancy Bowling, who has committed to Arizona. Bowling (25-2) has 240 strikeouts in 156 innings, and her 0.36 earned-run average is lower than both Winegarner's and Carlson's.

Not that Bowling is going to have an easy time of it. In Pacifica, Bowling is facing a team that bats a collective .348 and has 30 home runs, led by Nicole DeWitt's eight.

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1. Corona del Mar's hopes of winning a second consecutive Southern Section volleyball championship ended in four games as the second-seeded Sea Kings were dethroned by top-seeded Oak Park, 22-25, 25-22, 25-17, 25-21, on Saturday in the Division 2 finals. More bad news came Sunday: CdM was not selected to play in the Southern California Regional playoffs, leaving Orange County in the rare position of not having a representative playing for a regional title.

2. James Kaprielian and Irvine Beckman were almost a casualty of the first round. Kaprielian is one of the Southland's outstanding pitchers, but the second-seeded Patriots needed a two-out, seventh-inning RBI single by Torin Goldstein—who drove in Jake Hazard—to provide a 1-0 victory over El Rancho. Kaprielian (10-2) pitched a two-hitter and struck out 12. In his last nine appearances—five of which were seven innings—Kaprielian has allowed three hits or fewer. In that span: 49 2/3 innings, 13 hits, 4 walks, 68 strikeouts.

3. So much for baseball rankings. The Sunset League laid the hurt on the Moore League as at-large Huntington Beach won at fourth-seeded Long Beach Poly in the opening round Friday, 2-1, as Shane Grace scattered five hits and Matt Urabe went three-for-three and drove in both runs. Another Sunset League school, Huntington Beach Marina, KO'd highly regarded (and seventh-seeded) Lakewood, 2-0, behind Austin Olivas' four-hitter. It was fairly indicative of Orange County's performance: in games that two O.C. teams weren't playing each other in the first round, the county went 5-2; the only setbacks were Marmonte League champ Agoura's home win over Brea Olinda, 6-1, and third-seeded Riverside North beating (another Sunset League team) Huntington Beach Edison, 11-2. In both cases, the O.C. teams had to win play-in games before going on the road.

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Mira Costa captured its seventh CIF-Southern Section boys' volleyball title Saturday night by upsetting top-seeded Loyola in the Division 1 final at Cypress College. The Mustangs won an exciting five-set match, 25-18, 25-22, 25-27, 21-25, 15-12.

Loyola (33-2) never faced a two-set deficit all year and nearly completed the comeback.

"We wanted to give them trouble," Mira Costa coach Mike Ninnis told Fox Sports Preps Zone Live. "Things worked out for us."

Third-seeded Mira Costa (32-4) had lost to Loyola twice during the regular season, but won the one that mattered. Loyola, which swept through every set in the playoffs, dodged two match points in the third set.

In the Division 2 final, Oak Park defeated Corona del Mar in four sets to win its first section title. South Torrance beat Warren in four sets to claim the Division 3 title, and Los Angeles Cathedral ousted defending champion Santa Monica in five sets to win Division 4. Chadwick swept Viewpoint in Division 5.

AGOURA HILLS -- Agoura’s Justin Cana was sick, both literally and figuratively, in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division I baseball playoffs against Brea Olinda.

After leading off the game with a triple and scoring on a wild pitch, Cana puked in the dugout. He collected two more hits, a double and another triple, drove in three runs and led Agoura to a 6-1 win over visiting Brea Olinda on Friday.

“Apparently he was sick all day today,” Agoura coach Mike Cordero said. “He was throwing up in the second inning. He comes in and hits a lead-off triple, goes and throws up, hits a double, then he came out with another triple. Pretty impressive I think.”

Agoura starter Jordan Shulman was equally ill on the mound, tossing a complete-game and scattering nine hits.

More importantly, Shulman provided the pitching staff with a prescription for success saving the Agoura arms for future playoff games.

“He has no idea how big this is,” Cordero said. “Everyone wants to get a complete game in CIF playoffs. That’s something he’ll remember, a complete game. We have our whole staff intact. We’re in pretty good shape.”

Agoura (24-4-1) blew open an otherwise tight game scoring four runs in the sixth inning. Cana capped the rally with a two-run triple. Drew Lutzke, who was 2-for-3, added a run-scoring single in the inning.

Agoura took a 1-0 lead in the first inning, but Brea Olinda tied the score in the second inning. The score remained tied until the fifth inning when Cana knocked in his first run with a one-out double. Cordero said it was nice to see Cana swing the bat so well in the first game of the playoffs.

“I think the week-and-a-half off really did him some good,” Cordero said. “He’s rejuvenated and he finds a way to do it for us. He’s swinging the bat better than he has all year.”

Shulman, meanwhile, held Brea Olinda at bay. He wiggled out of trouble throughout the game. His defense turned two double plays, and nearly had a third on a lineout to shortstop in the third inning.

Shulman struck out three and didn’t walk a batter. But he only sent the Brea Olinda batters down in order once.

Jacob McFarland was 1-for-3 with a stolen base and scored the lone run for Brea Olinda (16-14-1). Kyle Kasser was 2-for-3, a pair of singles, and stole a base.

Agoura will play Corona, a surprise 4-2 winner over Camarillo, in the second round of the Division I playoffs on Tuesday.

Here are the results from the CIF Division I first round playoff games:

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When the Southern Section released its softball playoff pairings on Monday, only one Orange County softball team was seeded No. 1. It was Mission Viejo, which earned the prime location atop the Division 2 playoffs. The Diablos will open the playoffs in the first round on Thursday with a game against West Covina, which won a wild-card game to get into the bracket.

(At the bottom of the blog is a look at all seeded teams in softball)

Yet most of the Orange County representation was in Division 1, where Garden Grove Pacifica (26-2) was seeded No. 2, Orange Lutheran (25-4) was No. 3, and Los Alamitos (22-6) was No. 4. The top-seeded team was Norco (26-2), which has a victory over Pacifica but a loss to OLu.

Orange County teams went 3-1 in wild-card games on Tuesday, including Fullerton Rosary's 2-1 victory over Fountain Valley in nine innings. That moves Rosary (18-11) into the first round against Pacifica (26-2), and we can't help but think that it will make the Mariners grimace a little; Rosary has a tendency to play David to other teams' Goliath. It has three victories in the last dozen years over a team ranked No. 1 in the nation. The last time it happened was 2010 when the Royals took out top-seeded Corona Santiago in the first round. Pacifica, by the way, was No. 1 nationally as late as a week ago (more about that later) but are currently No. 2 -- behind Norco in the ESPNHS rankings.

Led by junior third baseman and St. John's commit Kaitlin Fitzgerald (.475, 4 HR), whose 32 RBIs is one shy of the school record set by Katie Chifcian in 2005, Rosary has not been shut out this season, and it has scored at least two runs in 23 games. As for Pacifica, it has won 14 games by shutout, but is coming off a season-ending 1-0 loss to Cypress. The Mariners, who also flex plenty of offense (25 games in which they have scored at least two runs) are led by young pitchers, sophomore Kaylee Carlson (who had perfect game through 19 batters against Cypress) and freshman Kaley Winegarner (who had a no-hitter in her last outing).

Make no mistake, Pacifica didn't draw the second-worst team in the playoffs as a first-round opponent.

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Five of 10 wild card games in the Southern Section Division 1 baseball playoffs had winners from Orange County; only one of the games featured two O.C. teams facing each other, and that ended in a surprising 3-0 victory by Brea Olinda over JSerra.

Brea (15-13-1) finished fifth in the Century League while JSerra (12-16) finished in a tie for third place in the Trinity League but gave top-seeded Orange Lutheran a battle last week before losing, 1-0, and fell a week before that to second-seeded Mater Dei, 5-4.

Credit to Brea's Nick Kern for firing a one-hitter, and getting RBI support from Cameron Bishop, Kyle Cawdrey and Cody Stoerck.

O.C. went 4-2 in other games involving opponents from outside the county: Capistrano Valley beat Oxnard Pacifica, 4-2; Huntington Beach beat Temecula Great Oak, 7-0; Edison beat Temecula Chaparral, 2-0; El Modena beat Bellflower St. John Bosco, 6-1; Riverside Poly beat Anaheim Canyon, 7-6, in nine innings; and Corona Santiago beat San Clemente, 11-2.

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The two teams from the Marmonte League won their wild-card games in the CIF Southern Section Division I baseball playoffs.

The two teams from the Foothill League lost.

Moorpark shut out Milikan, 3-0, in their wild-card game and advanced to the next round against top-seeded Orange Lutheran.

Simi Valley eliminated Hart, 7-4. Spencer Dubaich had four strikeouts and no walks for Simi Valley, which plays Esperanza next.

Valencia lost to Corona, 3-0. Corona starter Daniel Pena tossed a two-hitter and struck out six. The Panthers play Camarillo on Friday.

Here is a look at the wild-card results in the Southern Section baseball playoffs:

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While many teams played wild card games on Tuesday, Orange Lutheran and Mater Dei had the luxury of biding their time. The Trinity League rivals ended the regular season ranked 1-2 in the Southern Section Division 1 baseball rankings as well as 1-2 in the state, and 1-2 in the nation by some accounts.

Lutheran (21-4), led by Conner Sullivan and left-handed pitcher Art Vidrio, and Mater Dei (21-5), led by Ty Moore, open the first round of the section playoffs on Friday at home.

The Trinity League title is the third for OLu in even-numbered years; the Lancers also won in 2008 and 2010, so you have to figure the program is looking forward to 2014.

But not before finishing 2012 in style.

The section released the baseball pairings on Monday, and while some schools were left scrambling for buses to play wild card games, OLu and Mater Dei could rest easy. The Lancers are the top-seeded team by virtue of winning the league title by taking two of three from Mater Dei and will open the playoffs against Long Beach Millikan (11-17) or host Moorpark (15-12), which will be playing to get into the first round.

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The Santa Margarita boys golf team won the CIF Southern Section team golf championship at Rancho San Marcos in Santa Barbara on Thursday.

Beau Hossler shot a 7-under 65 to lead Santa Margarita to a 363 team score. Long Beach Wilson was second at 370. Andrew Morgan and Chase Nicolai each shot 2-under 70s for Long Beach Wilson.

Great Oak was third at 373. Santa Barbara finished fourth at 374.

The top four teams at the Southern Section team championship advance to the CIF/SCGA regional at Brookside Golf Course in Pasadena next week.

With the Empire League baseball title coming down to the last game of the season, Garden Grove Pacifica found a way to give fans more than their money's worth with a dramatic victory.

The Mariners hadn't scored against Cypress until Max Bethell, batting eighth in the order, hit a two-run home run in the top of the seventh inning to give Pacfica a 2-1 victory and the league championship.

Cypress came into the game No. 2 in the Southern Section Division 2 rankings, while Pacifica was ranked No. 3.

By virtue of its league title, Pacifica (23-5, 11-1) will almost surely be the No. 2 team when the playoffs begin next week, and Cypress (24-6, 10-2) will be in the same half of the bracket as Harvard-Westlake, which is ranked No. 1 in the state and No. 5 in the nation by ESPNHS.

Cypress had won the last two league titles, and were two outs from making it three in a row when Bethell struck.

Matt Gilbody led off the seventh with a single, one of five hits by the Mariners. An out later, Bethell drove a 2-2 pitch from Isaiah Terrazas over the left field fence.

Kyle Davis (7-2) got the victory by pitching a two-hitter. The only run he allowed was in the first inning, a home run by sophomore Nick Valdez.

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For third time this season, the El Toro pitching staff shut out Tesoro, and the two-hitter by Chasen Ford on Thursday gave the Chargers the South Coast League title.

Ford struck out five as he beat the Titans, 4-0, for the second time this season. In three league games, El Toro outscored Tesoro, 17-0, including a 9-0 victory on Tuesday.

The win on Tuesday ensured that El Toro (24-6, 9-3), which is No. 7 in the Southern Section Division 1 rankings, would go into the playoffs next week as the league's first-place representative, but the win on Thursday gave the Chargers the title outright. Tesoro (18-10-1, 7-5) finished second.

Mitchell Volman, who had a grand slam in the earlier victory, scored twice and had an RBI on Thursday. He also had a double and triple.

Jonah Arenado had two RBIs and Jayson Yano one.

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Three swimmers are within a second of the CIF Southern Section Division I meet record in the girls 50-yard freestyle.

The leader of the trio is a freshman at Saugus High School, a relative newcomer to swimming who is headed to the U.S. Olympic Trials in June to compete in two events.

Abbey Weitzeil is the top seed in the 50 freestyle for the Southern Section Division I meet at Riverside City College. Her top time is 23.38 seconds.

The record is 22.75 seconds set by Courtney Cashion of Irvine High in 2004. Lynrea Baudino from Los Alamitos and Kaitlyn Albertoli from JSerra are within a second of Cashion’s record. La Canada’s Sarah Olson is the fourth seed in the 50 freestyle at 23.80 seconds.

Weitzeil, who is also qualified in the 100 freestyle for the Division I championships, is making quite a splash in the high school swim scene. She didn’t start swimming at the club level until she was in the seventh grade. She has competed at the national level for less than a year.

Her coach said Weitzeil is far from flawless in the 50 freestyle. But she is extremely talented and that helps her overcome a lot of mistakes.

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Tied for first place going into the last two games of the season -- both against each other -- El Toro fired the first volley on Tuesday with a 9-0 victory over Tesoro.

That guarantees the Chargers a share of first place in the South Coast League. Coupled with its 4-0 victory earlier this season, it gives El Toro the tiebreaker advantage when the playoffs roll around; the Chargers will be the first-place entry when the Southern Section Division 1 playoffs begin next week.

El Toro held a 3-0 lead before unleashing six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. The outburst was largely powered by the first home run of the season from Mitchell Tolman, who hit a grand slam.

El Toro got a five-hitter from junior pitcher Stephen Villines, who struck out seven and walked none.

Ranked No. 7 in the Southern Section Division 1 rankings, El Toro (23-6, 8-3) leads Tesoro (18-9-1, 7-4) and Capistrano Valley (18-10-1, 6-5). Tesoro holds a tie-breaker advantage over Capo Valley should they tie for second place.