Baseball: Mayor Cup series starts today

COSTA MESA - The fourth-annual Mayor’s Cup series between the Costa

Mesa American and National Little League Majors (11-12) All-Star baseball

teams starts today, 5:30 p.m., at Costa Mesa High.

This annual matchup between the cross-town rival is a best-of-three

series.

This year’s CMALL squad was the first Costa Mesa team to win a

postseason game since 1996. It will be represented by R.J. Duernberger,

Andrew Sanford, Evan Hunter, Jamie Tinnion, Dave Chambers, Matt Doran,

Brandon Hoffman, Corey Hughes, Jordan Kolke, Ricky Sepulveda and Isiah

Werdel.

The CMNLL features brothers Vinnie and Victor Valdez, Ryan Bagwell,

Evan Vangeem, Kane Curran, P.J. Errington, Matthew Jeranko, Hillary

Larsen, Mike McDaniels, Trevor McDonald and Nicholas Smith. Michael Wolf

replaced Dallas Kopp, who was unavailable.

The CMALL leads this series, 2-1, including a two-game sweep last

year.