Marina moves on to semis

The Marina High baseball team marched into the Final Four of the CIF

Southern Section Division I baseball playoffs by edging visiting

Mater Dei, 4-3.

The nail-biter needed eight innings to be decided and it ended

when Daric Barton delivered a solo home run in the bottom half of the

frame to lift the Vikings to their 22nd win and extend their season.

Wes Etheridge started on the mound for Marina but it was reliever

Brooks Walling who got the win.

Walling came on in the seventh inning and shut down the Monarchs

in their final two at-bats in running his record to 6-1.

Marina also pulled out a tough one in second round play as the

Vikings used Jason Jordan’s squeeze bunt RBI in the top of the eighth

inning to pull out a 1-0 victory at Arcadia.

Walling, in relief of starter J.J. Valicenti, notched the pitching

win.

Marina (22-7), the runner-up to the Sunset League title, was to

face Ivy League runner-up Arlington Tuesday night in semifinal action

at Blair Field in Long Beach.

Sunset League champion and Division I top-seed Edison had its

season come to an end when Serra League runner-up Servite scored a

3-2 victory in eight inning on the Friars’ home field.

John-Paul Moreno’s two-run single in the sixth brought Edison

(24-4) into a 2-2 tie, but Servite’s Jose Hernandez homered in the

bottom of the eighth to give the Friars the victory.

Tommy Palica threw a strong game through six innings. David Huff,

in relief of Palica, took the loss, his first in his past 11

appearances.

At the CIF-SS Masters Meet at Cerritos College in Norwalk, Marina

Cara Walker finished in second place in the pole vault with a jump of

12-foot-4.

Walker has qualified for the CIF State Meet which will be held

Friday and Saturday, also at Cerritos College.

Huntington Beach senior Katelyn Ciarelli also qualified for

Friday’s State Meet after hitting a throw of 144-feet-4 in the discus

at the Masters Meet.

It will be Ciarelli’s first appearance at the State Meet.

In CIF-SS boys’ volleyball, Sunset League champion was ousted by

No. 1 San Clemente in the semifinals of the Division I playoffs,

15-4, 15-13, 15-1, in a match played at Edison High.

Oiler senior Kenny Markwardt led all players with 20 kills.

Huntington Beach finished the year with a 19-3 record.

Ocean View’s bid for a Division III crown was ended by visiting

Camarillo which posted a 15-3, 15-6, 10-15, 15-9 victory at

Westminster High.

Justin Roth led the Seahawks, who finished 20-6, with 19 kills.

At the CIF-SS doubles championships held at SeaCliff Tennis Club,

Edison’s Sunset League champion tandem of senior Ryan Malawy and

sophomore Thomas Shubert were defeated in the round of 16 by Canyon

sophomores Scott Hohenstein and Ryan Sandburg, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.