LeCocq Leads Softball Advance by Stealth

Maureen LeCocq of Chaminade High struck out 13 and Nikki Shaw of L.A. Lutheran drove in two runs with a single in the sixth inning Thursday as the Southern California Stealth defeated the Texas Roadrunners, 3-1, in the first round of a 14-and-under division game at the Amateur Softball Assn. nationals in Midland, Texas.

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Kelley Cook of Glendale High drove in the winning run for the Orange County Gordon’s Panthers in a 2-0 third-round victory over the New York Raiders in a 16-and-under ASA game at Chattanooga, Tenn.

In a second-round 16-and-under game at the same venue, Kim Diener of Alemany pitched 1 1/3 innings of relief in the Orange County Batbusters’ 7-1 victory over the Oklahoma City Power.

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Cindy Ball of Camarillo High struck out 12 and Marcella Passarelli drove in Tashie Aguinaga of Antelope Valley with the winning run in the seventh inning to lift the 18-and-under Southern California Stealth to a 1-0 victory over the West Texas Heat in a third-round ASA game at Eden Prairie, Minn.

The Heat’s lone scoring opportunity was thwarted in the third when Michelle Notarao of Westlake High made a running catch on the warning track to end the inning.

BASEBALL

The L.A. Valley Tribe committed five errors in a 6-5 loss to the Southern Nevada Bulldogs in a championship bracket game of the AAU 14-and-under national championships at Kingsport, Tenn.