Canyon loses after getting into semifinals
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High school softball: El Camino of Oceanside tops the Comanches, 6-4.
Canyon's young softball team showed that it has the potential to be one of the better teams in the county during its run in the Michelle Carew Classic this week, but they dropped a couple of games to quality teams on Saturday at Anaheim's Peralta Park.
The Comanches were the only county team to reach the semifinals, but they ran into hard-hitting El Camino of Oceanside. Canyon had a three-run lead, but the Wildcats rallied to win 6-4.
Canyon's bats were silenced by Long Beach Wilson's Callie Nikoletich in the third-place game. Nikoletich held the Comanches to two hits and struck out 12 to help the Bruins — who had beaten Pacifica earlier in the season — beat Canyon, 1-0.
Long Beach Wilson scored its lone run in the bottom of the fourth when Angie Busenburg got a one-out triple and scored on a wild pitch.
Canyon loaded up the bases with two outs in the top of the sixth on a hit batter, single and a walk. Briana Gwaltney hit a grounder down the first-base line and was tagged out to end the threat. The Canyon supporters believed it was a foul ball.
“It came right down to that play down the first-base line and the chalk is no longer really there,” Canyon co-coach Lance Eddy said. “Bases loaded and it just as well could have been called foul. I was standing right there. I'm not questioning the call because I don't know how I would have called it. I'm just saying it could have gone either way.”
In other Michelle Carew Classic games:
El Toro 3, Pacifica 2: Freshman Lauren Chamberlain hit a two-run homer in the top of the second to give the Chargers a 3-1 lead, and they held on to defeat the Mariners (12-8) in a fifth-place semifinal.
Pacifica ended up beating Ayala of Chino Hills, 4-1, in the seventh-place game.
El Toro 7, Kennedy 1: Bre Eckel hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the third, Niki Williams belted a two-run shot in the bottom of the sixth and Carly Land held the Fighting Irish to three hits as the Chargers (14-6-1) knocked off top-ranked Kennedy (16-3) in the fifth-place game.
Esperanza 12, Murrieta Valley 1: Jackie Munoz, Chelsie Schaal and Kristin Scharkey each had two hits and two RBIs for the Aztecs in a consolation game.
Esperanza 5, Lakewood 3: Scharkey went 2 for 3 with a solo homer to help the Aztecs (12-4-2).
In the Woodbridge/Victory Softball Classic:
El Modena 4, Marina 1: Evansville-bound Kylie Wagner allowed one hit, no earned runs and struck out 10, and she hit a home run to lead the Vanguards (9-5-1) past the Vikings (10-3) at Bill Barber Park in Irvine.
Trabuco Hills 6, Edison 5: Julianne Mendonca's two-run double in the bottom of the 10th propelled the Mustangs (7-9-1) past the Chargers.
Contact the writer: carias@ocregister.com
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