Bay League baseball outlook

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Dave Thorpe
on May 4, 2011 10:31 PM | | Comments (0) |

BAY LEAGUE STANDINGS
1. Peninsula        17-7-1, 6-1
2. West Torrance 15-10-1, 6-1
3. Palos Verdes    18-9, 3-4
4. Mira Costa       16-12, 3-4
5. Redondo          12-15, 3-4
6. Leuzinger          0-18, 0-7

Outlook: West Torrance is the big surprise here. The unheralded Warriors keep finding ways to win, and they have kept pace with Peninsula.
West plays at  Palos Verdes on Friday in perhaps the biggest game of the season for both teams. West finishes with  Leuzinger next week, so a win on Friday would all but clinch at  least a share of the Bay League title.
Peninsula plays Leuzinger on Friday then finishes next week against an improved Redondo squad, so its road to the title is a little tougher if West wins on Friday. But if the Warriors lose on Friday, Peninsula will start next week all alone in first place, and will look to close it out against Redondo.
Meanwhile, Palos  Verdes, Mira Costa and Redondo are in a logjam for third place in the Bay League. But Mira Costa has been a little shorthanded of late, with some key starters on the bench due to what coach Cassidy Olson said was because of "disciplinary reasons that we are handling in-house." But Mira Costa still managed to beat Redondo, 4-0, on Wednesday, and is looking for the sweep on Friday at Redondo.

Next week's Palos  Verdes-Mira Costa series could be for the last automatic playoff spot out of the Bay League.

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Tony Ciniglio is an 11-year veteran at the Daily Breeze and is the Prep-JC Editor. Ciniglio graduated from Malibu High (home of the mighty Sharks) in 1997 as part of the school's second graduating class before attending powerhouse Pepperdine (Class of 2001), thus shattering any reader's preconceived notion that he has any personal bias when it comes to South Bay Preps.

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Dave Thorpe

Dave Thorpe was a self-proclaimed, slightly above average baseball player back in the day at Torrance's West High, who went on and had an unspectacular, injury-riddled stint as a third baseman at El Camino College. Trading bat for pen, Thorpe wrote sports for the Long Beach Union newspaper at Long Beach State University, then worked as the sports editor for the Palos Verdes Peninsula News for seven years before climbing down the Hill to the Daily Breeze, where he has been a sports writer covering local sports for more than two years.

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