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Brea Olinda softball deals Yorba Linda a big setback in race for league title

May 1, 2026

YORBA LINDA — The Brea Olinda softball team opened up a big early lead and kept tacking on more runs for a 12-10 victory over Yorba Linda in the Freeway League on Thursday at Yorba Linda High School.

The Wildcats (15-12, 4-7) needed all those runs because the Mustangs (17-9, 7-4) scored three times in their final at-bat and had potential winning run at the plate when the final out was recorded.

The Wildcats and Mustangs collected 15 and 14 runs, respectively.

Yorba Linda entered the game in second place in the Freeway League and could have forced a first-place tie with Villa Park (13-13, 8-3) with a victory.

The league title will be on the line when Yorba Linda and Villa Park meet in the final league game on Tuesday at Villa Park High.

If Villa Park wins, it will be the outright league champions.

Yorba Linda defeated Villa Park in their first two league meetings and if the Mustangs defeat Spartans on Tuesday, the teams will finish in a first-place tie. The Mustangs, though, would go into the CIF Southern Section playoffs as the first-place team because it won the season series.

“We won the series thus far,” Yorba Linda assistant coach Nicole Crabb said. “But it’s all depending on Tuesday.”

The front part of the lineup accounted for most of the scoring for the Wildcats, who sent 10 batters to the plate and scored five runs in their first at-bat.

Brea Olinda leadoff hitter Haylee Arias went 3 for 5 with three runs scored, No. 3 hitter Callie Hammond went 2 for with four RBIs and one run scored and No. 5 hitter Ashley Gledhill went 2 for 5 with a home run, three RBIs and two runs scored.

“When you get that many runs on the board, it is basically a team effort,” Brea Olinda coach Eli Camarillo said. “Regardless of where we are in the standings, our motto right now is to finish strong. I’m very proud of these girls. We had a little rough patch the last four weeks. I just tell them to finish strong. They are very resilient.”

After the Wildcats’ five-run outburst in the first, the Mustangs got three runs in their half of the inning.

Gledhill’s two-run home run in with two outs in the second built the Wildcats’ lead back to four runs.

Hammond’s two-run double in the third made the score 9-3 and Makayla Gulfin’s RBI single and a sacrifice fly from Hammond in the fourth gave the Wildcats an eight-run lead.

The Mustangs came back with six runs over the final three innings.

“We kind of dug ourselves into a big hole,” Crabb said. “We were chipping away slowly. We tried until the very last out, the very last pitch.”

Orange County Register

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