Aliso Niguel took the Sea View League championship outright with a win over San Clemente 3-0.
The Wolverines’ Kyle Molnar threw a complete game shut out, and also knocked in the go-ahead RBI.
Video by Jonathan Khamis, OCVarsity.com.
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How I voted today in the Orange County baseball top 10 poll. I am one of five voters on the panel. This is not the official top 10 of the week. It is just one of five votes.
1. Mater Dei
2. El Toro
3. Fountain Valley
4. El Dorado
5. Canyon
6. San Clemente
7. Cypress
8. Orange Lutheran
9. Marina
10. Trabuco Hills
This is how I voted on the Orange County baseball top 10 today. It is a media poll of five media members.
1. Mater Dei (19-1 overall, 9-0 league)
2. El Toro (15-5, 7-0 … swept Mission Viejo last week)
3. Orange Lutheran (15-4, 6-2)
4. Fountain Valley (20-1, 9-0 … just a tad below El Toro, Orange Lutheran)
5. Canyon (15-4, 7-3 … lost to El Dorado, split w/Esperanza last week)
6. El Dorado (def. Canyon, split w/Villa Park)
7. San Clemente (19-5, 6-2 … was 2-2 last week; split w/San Juan Hills and with Great Oak of Temecula)7. San Clemente
8. Cypress (16-6, 4-2 .. split with Tustin)
9. Marina (13-7, 6-3 … 2nd in Sunset; def. Huntington Beach twice last week)
10. Mission Viejo (15-7-1, 4-3 … lost to El Toro twice)
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San Clemente wide receiver/safety Christian Bailey (6-1, 200) has accepted a preferred walk-on at Nebraska, Tritons football coach Jaime Ortiz reports.
Bailey was a two-time all-league pick and third-team All-County selection in 2012.
At Nebraska, he will join forces with Santa Margarita senior quarterback and Cornhuskers’ signee Johnny Stanton, whom he played Pop Warner with as a youth.
Nebraska also signed Laguna Beach’s Drake Martinez.
Please send football recruiting news to Dan Albano at dalbano@ocregister.com or to @ocvarsityguy on twitter
This is how I, your pal Steve Fryer, voted on the Orange County baseball top 10 today. We have five media members vote on the top 10 every Monday through the end of the regular season.
1. Mater Dei (10-1 overall, 5-1 league … just won that national tournament in North Carolina)
2. Canyon (10-1, 5-1 … won three Century League games)
3. Fountain Valley (13-1, 5-0 … def. Marina and Campolindo)
4. Cypress (9-3, 2-0 … has that early-season sweep of El Toro)
5. El Toro (8-4, 4-0 … 1st place in tough South Coast League)
6. Orange Lutheran (8-4, 3-2 … idle last week)
7. Capistrano Valley (13-4, 2-2 … lost to Trabuco, def. Tesoro and a couple of Lions tournament wins)
8. San Clemente (12-3, 3-1 … def. Dana and Aliso)
9. Mission Viejo (11-5, 2-2 … def. Trabuco)
10. El Dorado (7-4, 5-1 … has won 6 of past 7; def. Esperanza twice, and Foothill … def. Canyon earlier)
Compare Steve Fryer’s vote to this week’s baseball O.C. Top 10.
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San Clemente girls soccer head coach Stacey Finnerty has been selected by the California Coaches Association as the 2013 girls’ soccer Southern Section Coach of the Year.
Finnerty led San Clemente to the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs for the sixth straight season this winter.
In her 13 years as head coach of the Tritons, Finnerty has guided her teams to 216 victories and eight league titles.
San Clemente has been to the CIF Finals eight times, including a county record five straight from 2008-2012.
The Tritons have won five CIF titles and were the 2009 CIF Southern California Division 1 Regional champion.
Finnerty will now be a finalist for the California Coaches’ Association State Coach of the Year award, which will be announced in June.
Corona del Mar all-league water polo goalie Patrick McKenzie, Mission Viejo All-County attacker Christian Macias, University attacker Erik Whyte and San Clemente attacker Robby Stiefel have made college commitments.
McKenzie, who helped the Sea Kings reach the Division 1 semifinals, has committed to Bucknell, Sea Kings coach Barry O’Dea reports. Bucknell also features Corona del Mar product Jed Thayer.
Macias, a third-team All-County pick pictured left, has committed to Navy. He was the Sea View League’s MVP. Tesoro’s Taylor Peterson also has committed to Navy.
Whyte and Stiefel have committed to Air Force, reports Andy Coffman, their club coach with SOCAL. Stiefel was a second-team All-county pick.
Please send water polo recruiting news to Dan Albano at dalbano@ocregister.com
BOYS SWIMMING
Nonleague
ORANGE LUTHERAN 127, ESTANCIA 37
SAN CLEMENTE 90, EL TORO 80
200 medley relay (1:48.90) –ET 1:44.58; SC 1:46.04;
200 IM (2:05.50) – Swart (SC) 2:05.18
50 free (22.99) –Ampe (ET) 22.10
The first top 10 vote of the season is difficult in any sport, but especially so for baseball. Teams beat better teams because the better team went with its No. 4 starting pitcher, or brought up a JV guy who won’t pitch in a varsity league game, etc.
But here it goes — first top 10 vote of this baseball season …
El Rancho, out of Pico Rivera, stunned San Clemente in the Division I SoCal Regional championship. The Dons scored three early goals in the first half and never looked back.
Video by Jonathan Khamis, OCVarsity.com.
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