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    Newport Harbor baseball crushes Trabuco Hills in Division 2 playoffs
    • May 15, 2026

    NEWPORT BEACH – Gavin Guy is such an outstanding pitcher that Newport Harbor usually only needs to score a couple of runs to win on the day he pitches.

    Newport Harbor gave him much more than a couple of runs Thursday.

    The Sailors set a season high for runs in a 15-1 romp over Trabuco Hills in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 2 playoffs at Newport Harbor High.

    “The kids played up to their potential offensively,” said Newport Harbor coach Josh Lee.

    Newport Harbor (20-9) will play at Great Oak (17-10-1) in the second round Tuesday with a fresh Guy ready to roll.

    Trabuco Hills, the South Coast League champion, finished the season 17-12.

    Guy pitched three scoreless innings Thursday. He gave up two hits, walked two and struck out two.

    Guy, a 6-4 right-hander who committed to UC Santa Barbara, kept the ball low in the strike zone for most of his 30 pitches as he improved to 8-0 and dropped his ERA to 0.55.

    By the time he was replaced by Ryan Williams to start the fourth inning the Sailors had a 13-0 lead.

    “Our offense was great,” Guy said. “I went for 30 pitches, so I’m ready for the next game, for sure.”

    Newport Harbor sent 11 batters to the plate and scored six runs, all with two outs, in the first inning. Grant Horsley and Keoni Wun had run-scoring singles and Cameron Hatfield had a two-run single in the inning.

    The Sailors scored four more runs, again with two outs, in the second inning. Brooks Francis had a run-scoring single, Oren Damush sent in a run with a sacrifice fly and errors added to the Newport Harbor scoring for a 10-0 lead.

    Henry Mann’s solo home run in the third inning and another Hatfield RBI single contributed to a three-run third inning to push the lead to 13-0.

    Austin Giles contributed a two-run double in the fifth inning to push it to 15-0. Trabuco Hills got its run on a Daniel Van De Kreeke solo homer in the sixth inning.

    Newport Harbor collected 16 hits. Mann was 4 for 4. Horsley was 3 for 4.

    Newport Harbor lost to Trabuco Hills, 8-0, this season in a nonleague game at Angel Stadium.

    Lee said it was a special event for the team, an “everyone plays” game so maybe let’s not put much stock in that contest.

    “Our kids were not happy with the way that game went,” Lee said. “They were really locked for the last five or so days since the pairings came out. I kind of had a feeling something like this could happen.”

    So now the Sailors, who finished second in the Sunset League, have an away game for the second round of the playoffs. Great Oak beat Valley View, 10-5, in the first round Thursday.

    “They have a really good lefty,” Lee said, referring to Great Oak junior pitcher Roy Kim.

    Kim, a Stanford commit, has 72 strikeouts in 47⅔ innings.

    Newport Harbor will have an ace of its own, a well-rested Gavin Guy, ready to go, thanks to the big lead the Sailors built early on Thursday.

     

     Orange County Register 

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