BASEBALL: Valley North (Chatsworth) wins VIBL title

Chatsworth, competing as Valley North, defeated West Valley League rival El Camino Real, playing as Woodland Hills West, by a 5-2 margin in the Valley Invitational Baseball League final Friday night at Birmingham High.

Raul Camas pitched 5 1/3 innings in his first high school start, allowing five hits and two runs, along with five strikeouts and two walks to help Chatsworth win its first VIBL title since 2008. He also gave Chatsworth a 1-0 lead in the first when he doubled and scored on an RBI single by Kiefer Kofman.

Ernesto Prado doubled and scored, Chris Devito had a bases-loaded walk and Scott Voets was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded during a four-run third for Chatsworth, during which El Camino Real starter Justin Russell was victimized by two walks, two hit batters and two errors.

Russell hit four batters and walked three in 4 1/3 innings. He and Chris Scalisi both had two hits for El Camino Real, which last won a VIBL title in 2005.