Five athletes finish at top

Five local athletes earned top finishes at the CIF-Southern Section Track and Field division finals at Cerritos College in Norwalk.

Each of the top marks on Saturday came in the girls’ Division II competition.

Huntington Beach senior Chrissy VanDoornum claimed a second-place finish in the pole vault by clearing 11-6. She was second to Newport Harbor senior Allison Stokke who won the event at 12-feet even.

VanDoornum earned a spot in Friday’s CIF Masters Meet, also at Cerritos College.

Huntington senior Bonnie Sorensen came up big in two events, as she cleared 17-feet-7 to finish second to Granite Hills junior Evan Mueggenburg (18-5 1/4 ) in the long jump and placed fourth (5-3) in the high jump.

Laura Boggeln, another Oilers senior, finished in fifth-place (38-3) in the shot put.

“Their marks weren’t their bests of the season but we’re all very happy with improvements in their standings,” Huntington Coach Kim Clarke said. “We’re excited for Chrissy at Masters.”

Also in the division, Edison sophomore Meghan Foley ran to a second-place finish (2:12.35) in the 800-meters and fellow Chargers sophomore Hillary Hayes earned a third-place finish in the 1,600 (4:52.14) and was fifth (11:00.05) in the 3,200.

Foley and Hayes (1,600) also have qualified for Friday’s Masters Meet.

In the final girls’ Division II standings, Huntington earned 25 points to finish in ninth-place and Edison had 18 points, good for 15th-place. J.W. North, with 65 points, won the division.

In CIF softball

Marina is moving on to today’s quarterfinal round action in Division I after having survived host Saugus Tuesday in a nine-inning affair, 1-0.

Vikings pitcher Michelle Fuzzard put herself in position to notch her 15th win in 21 starts by leading off the top of the ninth with a single. The game-winning hit, a two-out, RBI single for the second time in two playoff games, went to Erin Cuevas who sent a single over third base to score the winning run.

Fuzzard got two hits at bat and also recorded her eighth shutout of the season.

“The kids are having the time of their lives and having fun,” said Marina Coach Shelly Luth whose Vikings again trek north for today’s quarterfinal match against top-seed Valencia of Valencia.

Marina began the playoffs last Friday with a 1-0 home win over Rio Mesa. The Vikings scored the game’s lone run off the Spartan’s Rachel Rillo (who went the distance) in the bottom of the fourth. Mariah Noguiera singled, was bunted over to second base and with two out, Cuevas singled up the middle and a charging Noguiera headed for home on the play and scored easily when the ball was bobbled in centerfield.

“Mariah is such a good baserunner that no matter what, I was sending her home on anything close,” Luth said.

Fuzzard struck out 10.

Golden West League champion Ocean View had its season ended at home Tuesday by Del Rey League champ Bishop Montgomery who scored a 5-1 win in the second-round of the Division IV playoffs.

Ocean View had won its playoff opener last Friday by blanking Calvary Chapel of Santa Ana, 6-0. Junior Brenna Klein threw a one-hitter in moving her record to 8-0. Offensively, Nikole Afusia hit a solo home run in the bottom of the first for a 1-0 lead, and Daae Cantu, Brooke Hitchcock and Holli Floetker all doubled to lead a 12-hit Seahawks attack.

In CIF baseball

Edison let a 3-1, seventh-inning lead at El Modena slip away Tuesday in the second-round of the Division I playoffs, and the host Vanguards forced extra innings and then pulled out a 4-3 victory in the bottom of the eighth.

After scoring on a two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the seventh to tie the score, Century League champion El Modena won the game in the eighth on Tim Gonzalez’s RBI double.

Justin DeMarco hit a two-run home run in the third inning and also doubled, and Hunter White and Michael Kuehn also doubled for Sunset League co-champion Edison.

In its playoff opener last Friday, Edison had little trouble with Rancho Verde and rolled past the Mustangs of Moreno Valley, 15-2. Greg Davis, the Sunset League Pitcher of the Year, tossed a three-hitter in improving to 8-3.

Davis had support from an explosive Chargers offense that received home runs from DeMarco, White and Kyle Higashioka. DeMarco went three for five and also doubled with four RBI. Higashioka added a double, walked twice and drove in two runs and White finished with two hits and knocked in four runs.

Golden West League champion Ocean View had its season come to an end on May 17 when the host Seahawks fell to Foothill, 8-5, in a Division II opener.

The Seahawks outhit the Knights, 12-7, but couldn’t quite rally back from a 5-0 deficit after 2 1/2 innings.

Sean Burleson hit a solo home run in the bottom of the seventh for the game’s final run.

Foothill, the No. 2 team out of the Sea View League, is the defending division champion.