COLLEGE ROUNDUP : Moorpark’s Maashoff Wins IM Hurdles

Joe Maashoff of Moorpark College and Robert Nelson of Glendale set school records Thursday in the men’s 400-meter intermediate hurdles and 3,000-meter steeplechase, respectively, in the Mt. San Antonio College Relays in Walnut.

Maashoff, a sophomore from Westlake High, timed 53.04 seconds to win the intermediates and lower his school best (hand-timed 53.0) set earlier this season.

Maashoff’s mark Thursday, which was a fully automatic time, is equivalent to a hand time of 52.9.

Nelson, a sophomore from Muir High, timed 8 minutes 53.0 seconds to finish second in the steeplechase behind Gary Richards of Northern Arizona (8:51.9).

Nelson set the previous school record of 8:57.4 in last year’s Mt. SAC meet.

In other events, Moorpark finished third in the men’s 1,600 relay with a time of 3:13.57 and Kipp Ortenburger of Cuesta won the men’s 1,500 in 3:55.71. Ortenburger is a former standout at Taft High.

BASEBALL

Pierce 13, Glendale 6--Four Brahma players each drove in two runs in a Western State Conference game at Glendale.

Lou Tapia, Josh Smaler, Adam Perlman and Jess Anguiano each had two runs batted in for Pierce (16-11, 13-8), which amassed 15 hits.

Smaler hit his fourth home run, Perlman hit his second, and Tapia went three for six with a double. First baseman Jason Cohen was three for five, and Steve Pack (4-2) earned the win.

Canyons 11, Cuesta 9--Canyons maintained a 5 1/2-game lead over second-place Valley in the WSC race. Starting pitcher R.J. Simone (6-0) went eight innings, surviving 13 hits and six errors. He walked only one and allowed only three earned runs. Keith Halcovich pitched a scoreless ninth for his sixth save and had two hits and three runs batted in.

Canyons (22-6, 19-2) trailed, 7-2, in the bottom of the fifth when Andy Shaw hit his conference-leading ninth home run--a grand slam. Shaw finished with three hits, four RBIs and four runs.

Valley 6, Santa Monica 3--Derek Rushton, coming off shoulder tendinitis and a back injury, struck out five and walked three and pitched five shutout innings in his first start of the season.

Ventura 8, Oxnard 5--Marco Grajales picked up his school-record sixth save of the season in the WSC game at Oxnard.

Cerro Coso 18, Mission 10--Richard Avalos was four for five for Mission (20-11, 10-4), which fell out of first place in the Southern California Athletic Conference for the first time this season.

Biola 6, The Master’s 5--The Mustangs outhit Biola, 11-4, but stranded 16 baserunners. Pitcher Chris Beck (6-3) went the distance in the loss.