July 2, 2015 Page 5 Tri Park Pulls Away from Lennox for Senior Crown By Joe Snyder Photos by Joe Snyder The Tri Park Senior Little League All- Star Baseball team came out slugging with six home runs en route to a 12-3 win over Lennox for the District 37 championship on June 23 at Jim Thorpe Park in Hawthorne. Tri Park led only 5-3 entering the bottom of the sixth inning before letting loose for seven runs that included three homers, one of those a grand slam by Dan Villa that virtually sealed the game and title. Tri Park also had solo shots by Saul Martinez and Vincent Rojas in that inning. Taking advantage of the smaller field, with the center field at only about 250 feet, Tri Park tagged Lennox starting pitcher Jesus Sanchez, along with relievers Daniel Sanchez and Brian Rodriguez. Tri Park began with Jesus Sanchez for two solo homers from Anthony Payan and Martinez in the bottom of the first for a quick 2-0 lead. Lennox got on the scoreboard in the top of the second on Salvador Mercado’s home run, but Tri Park heated up more with Payan’s second homer in the second, then adding two more runs in the third on a RBI (run batted in) double by Chris Villavenco and a runscoring single by Rojas for a 5-1 advantage. Lennox, which had both of its teams (including the champion Athletics and Titans) in the Carl Magee, Jr. District 37 Tournament of Champions finals on June 13 at Thorpe Park, rallied back for two runs to cut Tri Park’s lead to two runs in the top of the fifth. After two out, Dan Sanchez, who completed his freshman season at Hawthorne High this past season, singled, then scored on a double by Jesus Sanchez. Jesus Sanchez scored on Victor Valdez’s base hit. Tri Park, though, put an exclamation mark on Lennox in the bottom of the sixth. “It was a good game,” Tri Park manager Will Castellano said. “Lennox was a tough team. The boys hit the ball well.” Along with Payan, who plays his high school baseball at St. John Bosco in Bellflower, Martinez had two home runs. He went three-for-three with two RBIs and two runs scored. Villavenco was two-for-three with two doubles, one RBI and two runs. He also walked once. Rojas went two-for-four with two RBIs and one run. Manny Bornardo went two-for-three for Lennox. Tri Park knows that hitting home runs will be a lot harder as it plays in the Section 4 Tournament at the spacious Marine Park in Manhattan Beach, with a professional type field that goes 395 feet to center field that began last Sunday against District 25 champion Santa Monica. Holly Park Majors Advance The Holly Park Major Little League All-Star Baseball team from Hawthorne advanced to the winner’s bracket semifinal where it will face host Westchester next Sunday at 3 p.m. at Carl Nielsen Youth Sports Park. Holly Park remained unbeaten by routing crosstown rival Wiseburn 14-3 on June 24 at Nielsen Park. Westchester continued to pour it on its opponents by rolling over Lennox 16-5 a day earlier. In all mercy rule games, Westchester needed a total of just 12 innings to outscore its three opponents (Del Aire Aviation, Del Rey and Lennox) by a total score of 70-6. Holly Park, meanwhile, just about matched up with Westchester outscoring its two opponents (Lawndale and Wiseburn) by a combined score of 36-3 in nine innings. Lennox wins 50/70; Tops Holly Park Minors The Lennox 50/70 (ages 11-13) Little League All-Star Baseball team captured the District 37 Tournament by routing Tri Park 15-0 on June 22 at Jim Thorpe Park. Lennox moved on to the Section 4 Tournament that began last Saturday. The Lennox Minor (ages 9-10) Little League All-Star Baseball team moved on to the winner’s bracket semifinals of the District 37 Tournament by edging Holly Park 4-3 last Friday at Nielsen Park. Lennox will face Westchester on Sunday at noon at Nielsen Park. Holly Park took on Wiseburn in the elimination bracket last Sunday. Raptors Draft Wright Former Leuzinger High boys’ basketball and recent University of Utah star Delon Wright was taken in the first round of the National Basketball Association draft by the Toronto Raptors last Thursday in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was the 20th pick overall. This past season, Wright keyed the Utes to a 26-9 overall record and the Sweet 16 of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I playoffs where it fell to eventual champion Duke. The Bluedevils topped University of Wisconsin for the crown. Wright won the PAC 12 Conference Bob Cousy Award as the conference’s Point Guard of the Year. He was only the second ever Utah player to have more than 1,000 points, 350 rebounds, 350 assists, 150 steals and 70 blocked shots as that was in only two years. In the 2009-10 season, Wright was Bay League and CIF-Southern Section Division IA Player of the Year in keying the Olympians to their first ever Southern Section crown with a win over Santa Monica in the final at the Honda Center in Anaheim. Leuzinger advanced to the Southern California Regional Division I quarterfinals where it lost on a buzzer-beater to Woodland Hills Taft, the Los Angeles City Division I runner-up to Westchester. Wright also starred for City College of San Francisco, which won the Coast Conference Northern Division title in 2013, before moving on to Utah.• Tri Park’s Danny Perez scores in last week’s District 37 Senior Little League All-Star Baseball championship game against Lennox. Tri Park won the championship with a 12-3 win. 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