Breakers drop pair of games

Stepping away from play in the Costa Mesa Tournament, the Laguna

Beach High softball team took on Estancia and Sage Hill in a pair of

nonleague games this past week.

Laguna dropped both contests, losing, 10-1, at home against

Estancia Tuesday, and dropping an 8-0 decision Thursday to Sage Hill.

The Breakers were locked in a tight ballgame with Estancia heading

into the fourth inning, where the Eagles clung to a 2-1 lead.

But Estancia broke the game open in its fourth at-bat, getting

five runs on four hits while taking advantage of three Laguna

fielding errors.

Laguna, which had struggled a bit offensively, began to show life

at the plate as Lauren Delgado, Meagan McCulough and Anne Olson, a

trio at the top of the Breakers’ batting order, each produced two

hits of the Eagles’ Muriel Mason, who struck out nine in seven

innings.

Mason aided her cause by going four for four with an RBI, and

Allison Wyman hit her fourth home run of the season, to lead

Estancia.

In its previous game, an 8-0 loss to Sage Hill, Laguna again was

sluggish on offense, mustering one hit against the host Lightning.

That hit was a single by Delgado.

Laguna returns to the diamond today to host Capistrano Valley

Christian in a 3:15 p.m. nonleague game.

The Breakers have two more nonleague games scheduled in the coming

week. They host St. Margaret’s Tuesday, then host Brethren Christian

on Thursday.

Both games start at 3:15 p.m.