Times Staff | Posted: Wednesday, May 5, 2004 12:00 am
EL CAJON 7 The Hancock College women ran into a tennis buzzsaw Tuesday.
Unbeaten Grossmont shut out the Bulldogs 5-0 in the Southern California Regional Dual Team Championship Final.
The Bulldogs wound up 14-3. Tuesday marked their first trip to the Southern California final in at least the past several years. Grossmont is the defending state champion.
"Their first three singles players are excellent players," first-year Hancock coach Ginny Barnett said of the Griffins. "Their No. 1 player won the Ojai Tournament."
Grossmont/s top player is Yuki Hagiwara, and she defeated Lori Valadez 6-3, 6-0. In other completed singles matches, Sayaka Sukumoto downed Monica Krier 6-3, 6-0; Mayumi Sato defeated Carlene Holst 6-0, 6-1; Jennifer Verbrgoboy downed Carly Barnett 6-3, 6-4; and Breanna Pinnick beat Amanda Urias 6-3, 6-2.
Grossmont/s Sunny Kim led Clairol Lozano 6-3, 3-6, 3-2 when the match was called because the Griffins already had five points. In regional play, a match ends whenever a team has five points. Thus, no doubles matches took place Tuesday.
Valadez and Holst compete in the State Individual Doubles Tournament that begins Friday in Palm Desert.
Baseball
Moorpark 7, Hancock 6
MOORPARK 7 The 11-inning loss eliminated the Bulldogs (11-12, 16-17) from the Western State Conference North Division playoff race.
The Raiders are 15-8 in conference games. Cuesta 14-9. The best Hancock can finish in conference games is 13-12.
The Bulldogs scored twice in the eighth inning to tie the game, but the Raiders pushed across a run in the bottom of the 11th.
Marc Verbryke and Ben Hodges doubled for the Bulldogs. Jerimiah Ventresca pitched the distance for Hancock. He gave up 16 hits. The Bulldogs had 12.
Cuesta 13, Ventura 1
SAN LUIS OBISPO 7 Nate Mendoza hit a grand slam home run in a six-run eighth inning, and Joe Gulden and Kenny Evoniuk combined on a four-hitter as the Cougars kept the heat on Moorpark.
Evoniuk pitched a scoreless ninth in his inning of work. Lompoc graduate Brian Aguailar hit a two-run home run for Cuesta in the first inning.
May 05, 2004