Playoff Thursday: Walnut, San Dimas, Bishop Amat baseball advance; Edgewood, San Dimas softball win to set up second-round battle

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BIG INNING HELPS WALNUT ADVANCE: Walnut High School’s dream baseball season will continue.
Cody Dye tossed a six-hit shutout and the Mustangs, fresh off winning their first league crown in two decades, took advantage of three infield RBIs in the fifth inning en route to an 8-0 victory over visiting St. Paul in a CIF Southern Section Division 3 game on Thursday.

SAN DIMAS’ LAMBERT THROWS ONE-HITTER: No one will ever accuse San Dimas baseball coach Mike Regan of taking anything for granted.His unbeaten Saints may have been opening the playoffs against a team with a losing record that was only a third-place finisher in its league, but Regan never entertained the thought of going with a pitcher other than his senior ace Peter Lambert.

CIF-SS PLAYOFF RESULTS
Baseball
Thursday’s first round

Division 3
San Dimas 9, La Quinta 0
Walnut 8, St. Paul 0
Arroyo Grande 1, Nogales 0
Bishop Amat 7, Palos Verdes 1
Redondo Union 6, Charter Oak 1
Palm Desert 5, Northview 1
Division 5
Bishop Montgomery 5, Sierra Vista 3, 8 innings
Santa Ynez 7, Azusa 0
Temple City 4, Arroyo 3
Capistrano Valley 9, La Puente 2

Softball
Thursday’s first round
Division 1

Murrieta Valley 2, Los Altos 1
Valencia 2, Charter Oak 1, 8 innings
Division 2
South Hills 15, Oxnard Pacifica 1
Glendora 4, Paso Robles 1
Yucaipa 10, Bonita 0
Division 3
Bishop Amat 4, San Jacinto 1
Division 4
El Segundo 5, South El Monte 2
Santa Monica 10, Arroyo 0
Division 5
San Dimas 13, Barstow 1
Edgewood 14, Vista Del Lago 2
St. Monica Catholic 11, La Puente 0
Silverado 15, Nogales 0
Montebello 6, Covina 4
Duarte at Moreno Valley

SOUTH HILLS DOMINANT IN WIN: South Hills never let Pacifica of Oxnard get into the game as the Huskies scored five first-inning runs and cruised to a 15-1 five-inning mercy rule win in a CIF-Southern Section Division 2 first-round game on Thursday.
The Huskies (18-7) will play the winner of the Canyon Springs/Villa Park game Tuesday at a site to be determined.
“I told the girls that we needed to dominate early,” Huskies coach Brandon Gonzalez said. “They were never in the game and that’s what you need to do in the playoffs.”

BELOW: Watch South Hills’ Caitlyn VanHemelryck smack a grand slam to give the Huskies a 5-0 lead

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