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Newport Harbor baseball hands Los Alamitos another loss in Sunset League

April 2, 2026

Newport Harbor shortstop Grant Horsley (30) tags Los Alamitosâ Will...

Newport Harbor shortstop Grant Horsley (30) tags Los Alamitos’ Will McCullough after he got caught in a pickle during a Sunset League game in Los Alamitos on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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LOS ALAMITOS — The Newport Harbor baseball team came out swinging and got all the runs it needed in the first inning for a 7-3 win over Los Alamitos in a Sunset League game Wednesday at Los Alamitos High School.

Winners of five in a row, the Sailors (14-2, 8-2), the No. 7 team in Orange County Top 25, can sweep the three-game series against the No. 8 Griffins (5-12, 2-9) when the teams play again Friday at 3:15 p.m. at Newport Harbor.

The Sailors are in second in place behind No. 2 Huntington Beach (8-2-1, 8-0), which remained undefeated in league with an 8-2 victory over Corona del Mar on Wednesday.

“It was a good confidence builder,” Sailors coach Josh Lee said of the victory. “Yesterday was an 8-0 win (over Los Alamitos). We talked yesterday after the game about making tomorrow a continuation of today. The kids did a good job at that. In the first inning it kind of felt like we were just picking up where we left off.”

Five of the first six batters in the lineup collected hits during a four-run first inning for the Sailors.

Henry Mann and Grant Horsley hit back-to-back RBI singles and Brooks Francis drove them both in with a double.

Starting pitcher Keaton Anderson then took the mound for the Sailors and held the Griffins scoreless through five innings before giving up a pair of runs in the sixth.

“Keaton just did a heck of a job,” Lee said. “He’s done that every time this season. This is the fourth week of league and we’ve won every Wednesday he’s pitched and with Gavin (Guy), we’ve won every Tuesday and Wednesday.”

Anderson and Guy are a combined 9-0 for the Sailors.

After giving up the hits and runs in the first inning, Los Alamitos starter Easton Coffman settled down and held the Sailors scoreless over the next four innings.

Newport Harbor extended its lead to 7-0 by scoring three times in the top of the sixth.

“Credit them for jumping on some pitches early,” Los Alamitos coach Cameron Chin said. “Once Easton settled down and got a good feel for things and started locating a little more, he was as good as he usually is.”

The Griffins suffered a severe setback this week when they had to forfeit six games because one of their players violated a CIF rule by playing for a non-high school team during the high school season.

The six games the Sailors forfeited were all Sunset League games.

“There are always things in baseball that can go against you,” Chin said. “You can’t think about what you can’t control and what happened in the past. You can just control the next at-bat, the next pitch, the next ground ball that is hit to you. It’s having to deal with that kind of stuff that baseball teaches life lessons and this is just another one of those situations.”

The Griffins still have a lot to play for, Chin said.

“We absolutely control our own destiny,” the coach said. “We just ran into a really good the team the last two days and we’ll try to beat them on Friday. What’s done is done.”

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