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Huntington Beach baseball loses close one in first round of Boras Classic

April 8, 2026

Los Osos Wyatt Mohler (9) gets to second base as Huntington Beach’s Sol Moriyama (2) fails to grab the ball during their first-round at the Boras Classic South Tournament at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, CA, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. The Grizzlies defeated the Oilers, 1 to 0. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Los Ososâ Aaron Ziello (11) slides under the Huntington Beachâs...

Los Osos’ Aaron Ziello (11) slides under the Huntington Beach’s Jason Dunham (56) as he steals second base during their first-round at the Boras Classic South Tournament at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, CA, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. Ziello was called out because of batter interference at the plate. The Grizzlies defeated the Oilers, 1 to 0. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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SANTA ANA – Huntington Beach pitcher Cayman Hammond took a no-hitter into the seventh inning of Tuesday’s game against Los Osos.

The senior right-hander finally gave up a hit to Los Osos’ Wyatt Mohler with one out in the seventh and Mohler came around to score as the Grizzlies topped the Oilers 1-0 in the first round of the Boras Classic Southern Section tournament at Mater Dei High.

Huntington Beach (11-3-1), ranked No. 2 in Orange County, will play St. John Bosco (11-4) in a consolation bracket game Wednesday at 9 a.m. at Mater Dei. St. John Bosco, which went into the tournament as the No. 1 team in Prep Baseball Report’s state rankings, lost to Norco 3-2 in the first round Tuesday.

Los Osos (4-8) will play Norco (13-3) in the second round of the championship bracket Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Mater Dei. Los Osos is not in the state top 25 and Norco is No. 4.

Hammond started the seventh inning with his eighth strikeout. He was pulled from the game after the Mohler single to right field.

The hit came on Hammond’s 81st pitch. The Huntington Beach coaching staff was capping him at 80 pitches, so whether it was a hit or an out Mohler would have been his final batter.

Junior lefty Duncan McLeod replaced Hammond on the mound for the Oilers. McLeod had not allowed a run in his previous 3⅔ innings this season and opposing batters were hitting .232 against him.

Mohler stole second base, advanced to third base on a ground out and scored on Dominic Rodriguez’s single.

In the bottom of the seventh, Huntington Beach’s Dane Cunningham reached base with a one-out walk. The game ended when the Oilers hit into a double play.

Los Osos senior right-hander Kyle Humphrey pitched a complete game. He gave up two hits, walked one, hit a batter and struck out three.

Hammond, who is committed to Brigham Young University, is a transfer from Arizona. He had to sit out the first half of the regular season before becoming eligible last week.

He said he had all of his pitches working for him Tuesday.

“We had the fastball working well, the curveball, the slider,” Hammond said. “We have 100 percent trust in all of my pitches.”

Huntington Beach coach Benji Medure was impressed by Hammond and by Humphrey, a 6-4 right-hander who has committed to Cal Poly Pomona.

“He was landing all of his pitches for strikes,” Medure said of Humphrey. “They called a really good game, kept us off balance the entire day. We hit some balls hard that just didn’t go anywhere.”

Neither team made an error.

“No one made any mistakes the whole game,” Medure said. “As far as defensively and well-pitched, that was a great game.”

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