Sluggers improve to 3-0 with three big victories

The Mizuno Sluggers, a traveling baseball team out of Huntington

Beach, racked up three impressive victories in action this week.

The Sluggers scored 42 runs on an amazing 45 hits in a victory

over Irvine and a doubleheader sweep of the SoCal Yankees.

In defeating Irvine, 18-3, the Sluggers pounded out 19 hits led by

three hits each by MJ Forsberg and Kyle Hughes.

Forsberg recorded four RBIs and Hughes had three.

The Sluggers next defeated the SoCal Yankees by scores of 8-2 and

18-0.

In the 8-2 win, Scott Baxter had three hits and combined with

Forsberg to five-hit the Yankees.

In the nightcap, an 18-0 rout, Hughes, Michael Bogard, Trevor

Briggs, Calvin Drummond, Bobby Duarte and Eric Tenebaum each had two

hits.

Drummond and Hughes combined pitching efforts to produce a

one-hit, shutout victory.

The Sluggers, now 18-7, will compete this weekend in tournament

play at Chino Hills.

In Ocean View Little League action:

Majors Division

Dodgers 11, A’s 10

Dalton Hintz hit a two-run home run as the Dodgers held off the

A’s.

The Dodgers led, 9-0, before the A’s mounted a major comeback.

That rally was capped when Sean Guite hit a two-run home run in

the sixth inning to bring the A’s to within a run.

The A’s had bases loaded and threatened to overtake the Dodgers

when Hintz, playing at shortstop, went into centerfield to catch a

fly ball to end the game.

In Ocean View Little League action:

Minor A Division

Mets 18, Dodgers 11

The Dodgers were playing perfect ball in building a 9-0 lead

through three innings before the Mets rallied big, scoring 16 runs in

the bottom of the fourth.

Quinn Herndon had two hits for the Dodgers who fell into a

first-place tie with the Giants and Angels.

Dodgers 10, Yankees 2

Mark Johnston pitched three innings of no-hit action with six

strikeouts and the Dodgers played error-free ball.

Evan Archer hit a home run and Matt O’Connor finished with two

hits to lead the Dodgers on offense.

Other scores:

Giants 11, Reds 5

Minor B Division

Rangers 8, Orioles 2

Jonathan Lancaster and David Elias combined pitching efforts to

record 16 strikeouts for the Rangers.

Connor Diegelman doubled and singled and Lancaster, Elias, Patrick

Shearer, Kyle Ingram, Scott Zech and Jonathan Rothschild all singled

as the Rangers remained atop the division standings.