Valencia

Determined to avoid a three-game sweep at the hands of rival St. John Bosco on Thursday, No. 1-ranked Orange Lutheran turned to Texas-bound catcher Brady Murrietta, who came through with a memorable individual performance in a 5-4 road victory.

Let’s count the ways Murrietta made an impact.

In the top of the first inning, he had a double. In the bottom of the first, he threw out the speedy James Clark trying to steal second. In the fifth, he drove in a run with a sacrifice pop fly. In the top of the sixth, he broke a 3-3 tie by sending a hanging slider from closer Jack Champlin over the fence in left field for a two-run home run. In the bottom of the sixth, he tagged out the potential tying run at the plate.

Pro scouts were out en masse to see Orange Lutheran pitcher Cooper Sides, whose fastball touched 95 mph. He struck out eight in five innings.

Champlin had a two-run triple in the first inning against Sides. Champlin had given up only one earned run all season until Orange Lutheran scored three runs (one earned) in 2⅔ innings of relief. The Lancers were particularly excited because Champlin taunted them after saving Wednesday’s 4-1 win, leading to shoving and pushing after the game. As a precautionary measure, the teams did not shake hands after Thursday’s game.

Orange Lutheran improved to 8-3 and 1-2 in the Trinity League. No. 2 St. John Bosco is 11-3 and 5-1. The teams could meet again next week at the Boras Classic.

Cypress 6, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 2: Tate Belfanti allowed one hit in four innings and struck out four for Cypress, which finished third at the National Classic.

Concord De La Salle 6, Corona Centennial 3: The Spartans won the National Classic. Devin Bishop and Michael Nonis hit home runs for Centennial, which became the first team in four days to score against De La Salle.

Bell 1, Las Vegas Southeast Career Tech 0: The Eagles improved to 16-1 and went 4-0 in San Diego. Manuel Pasillas threw five scoreless innings and AJ Esquivel threw two scoreless innings for the save.

West Ranch 6, Saugus 5: A four-run rally in the bottom of the seventh lifted West Ranch to the Foothill League win. Ty Diaz had two RBIs.

Hart 7, Golden Valley 4: Hayden Rhodes delivered two hits and three RBIs for Hart.

Valencia 9, Castaic 7: Justin Gaisford had a two-run home run for Valencia.

Corona Santiago 3, Aquinas 0: Troy Randall struck out 10 in five innings and Max Eldridge hit a home run to lead Santiago.

Maranatha 4, Granada Hills 0: Bradley Loiacono threw 6⅓ scoreless innings.

Foothill 2, La Habra 1: Caden Lauridsen struck out four with no walks while giving up two hits in a complete-game performance.

Agoura 6, Oak Park 0: Tyler Sterling had three RBIs for the Chargers.

Newbury Park 3, Thousand Oaks 0: Ben Miller and Chase Renzo combined on the shutout and Carson Richter had a three-run home run to lead the Panthers.

Oaks Christian 2, Westlake 1: Luke Puls had a solo home run and Gave Geyer threw three innings of scoreless relief.

Long Beach Millikan 4, Lakewood 0: Daunte Bell struck out eight with no walks in throwing the shutout.

Villa Park 4, Temecula Valley 2: Ezra Ornelas had two hits for Villa Park.

Softball

Norco 9, Corona del Sol 0: Leighton Gray and Isabella Ray hit home runs and Peyton May allowed three hits in a five-inning win at the Michelle Carew Classic.

Two decades after owner Arte Moreno decided the Angels should play under the Los Angeles name, elected officials representing Anaheim are pursuing two paths toward getting their hometown back into the team name.

Assemblyman Avelino Valencia, whose district includes Angel Stadium, has introduced state legislation that could require any sale or new lease of the stadium property be conditioned upon the team reverting to the Anaheim Angels name.

Meanwhile, Anaheim Mayor Ashleigh Aitken has asked the city attorney to explore whether the Angels have violated their current lease by dropping the Anaheim name from legal documents.

Valencia’s bill — dubbed the “Home Run for Anaheim Act” — aims to mandate what the city of Anaheim could not negotiate in its ill-fated deal with Moreno in 2019: If a team owner wants to develop the parking lots around the city stadium, the team should carry the city’s name.

“The Angels have been supported by the city and its residents for 60 years,” Valencia said. “I think it’s rightfully owed to the residents that, if the team wants to play in Anaheim and be in partnership with Anaheim when it comes to future developments of that stadium and surrounding property, then the name should also resemble that.”

Angels spokeswoman Marie Garvey said the team had no comment.

The Angels’ current stadium lease extends through 2032, with the team holding options to extend the lease through 2038.

The city and team had agreed on a deal in which the Angels would remain in Anaheim through 2050, with the team buying the 150-acre stadium property for $150 million, renovating or replacing the stadium, and building a ballpark village atop the parking lots.

The state objected, however. The Surplus Land Act requires public property up for sale must first be made available for affordable housing, and the city negotiated only with the Angels. The city agreed to a $96-million settlement.

The Anaheim City Council ultimately killed the deal three years later, after an FBI investigation uncovered — and former mayor Harry Sidhu acknowledged in a plea agreement — that Sidhu provided confidential information to the team “so that the Angels could buy Angel Stadium on terms beneficial to the Angels” and that he “expected a $1,000,000 campaign contribution from the Angels.” The government has not alleged any wrongdoing by the Angels.

Valencia’s bill was developed in consultation with city leaders and publicly endorsed by Aitken and former mayors Tom Daly and Tom Tait.

Under the bill, if the city can obtain an exemption from the Surplus Land Act, the team could not buy or lease Angel Stadium unless “materials refer to that team as the Anaheim Angels.”

The bill would only apply to Anaheim, and its provisions would not take effect “if the city of Anaheim is able to come to an agreement with the Major League Baseball team known as the Los Angeles Angels about their affiliation.”

Valencia said the city could make a case for an exemption because he believed the Surplus Land Act was designed for smaller properties like school sites and municipal office buildings. He said the community should have the primary say in how such land should be used, even if that might mean less housing on the Angel Stadium site.

“We definitely need more housing because it’s so dang expensive to live, but the amount of housing (in Anaheim) that has gone up in the last 10, 15 years, I think, mitigates some of that,” Valencia said.

“I think folks in Anaheim think that Anaheim is doing their fair share of developing housing. I don’t want to muddy the concept by saying Anaheim is saying, ‘We don’t need any more housing. We have been so proactive in that space. But I think people are going to be thrilled that we want to make the Angels have Anaheim back in the name.”

In 2005, after city officials declined Moreno’s request to change the team name from Anaheim Angels to Los Angeles Angels, the owner adopted the “Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” name. The city sued and lost, with a jury finding that the Angels had not violated a stadium lease requirement that the team name “include the name Anaheim therein.”

When the city sued the Angels and asked for an injunction to stop the name change pending trial, Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Polos denied the request. He did, however, warn the Angels he would grant the injunction if the team dropped the “of Anaheim” and simply called themselves the Los Angeles Angels.

In 2006, after the city had lost its lawsuit, Polos ruled the team could market itself by whatever name it wished. By 2016, the team called itself the Los Angeles Angels. In state records, the legal entity is Angels Baseball LP.

“When it comes to official designations, and to how they’re registered, I want us to look into how Anaheim is being used by the team in any official filings,” Aitken said, “and what their requirements are to do so.”

When Aitken asked City Attorney Robert Fabela to investigate, Fabela said the matter would be discussed in closed session as a “potential litigation item.”

Friday’s Results

BASEBALL

CITY SECTION

Arleta 4, VAAS 2

Bell 17, Huntington Park 1

Carson 6, Wilmington Banning 4

Cleveland 3, Taft 2

Eagle Rock 6, Sotomayor 0

El Camino Real 6, Chatsworth 3

Hollywood 22, Contreras 3

LA Wilson 14, Roybal 2

Jefferson 14, Diego Rivera 3

LACES 6, Fairfax 2

Monroe 14, Van Nuys 2

Palisades 13, LA Hamilton 2

San Pedro 4, Narbonne 3

SOCES 18, Panorama 2

South Gate 17, South East 2

Triumph Charter 12, CALS Early College 1

Vaughn 11, Grant 1

SOUTHERN SECTION

AAE 14, Lucerne Valley 4

Alemany 10, Harvard-Westlake 4

Anaheim 2, Saddleback 0

Anaheim Canyon 5, Crean Lutheran 4

Apple Valley 3, Ridgecrest Burroughs 2

Arcadia 10, Hoover 0

Ayala 6, Chino Hills 1

Bassett 5, La Puente 4

Beaumont 6, La Quinta 0

Big Bear 13, Loma Linda Academy 7

Bishop Amat 7, St. Paul 0

Buena 16, Oxnard 6

Camarillo 8, Oak Park 3

Cantwell-Sacred Heart 5, St. Monica 1

Castaic 4, West Ranch 3

Chadwick 4, Rio Hondo Prep 2

CIMSA 23, Victor Valley Christian 4

Corona del Mar 8, Newport Harbor 1

Corona Santiago 9, Eastvale Roosevelt 1

Costa Mesa 4, Bonita 2

Crescenta Valley 3, Pasadena 1

Dana Hills 6, Capistrano Valley 1

Dos Pueblos 6, Oxnard Pacifica 3

El Dorado 4, Villa Park 2

El Modena 3, Brea Olinda 2

Estancia 6, Savanna 5

Fillmore 8, Carpinteria 6

Ganesha 4, Edgewood 1

Great Oak 8, San Clemente 2

Hart 15, Valencia 14

Hawthorne 6, HMSA 3

Hemet 12, Perris 1

Heritage Christian 13, Village Christian 3

Hesperia 19, Sultana 10

Hesperia Christian 14, Bethel Christian 6

Highland 4, Quartz Hill 2

Hillcrest 19, Lakeside 1

Hueneme 9, Santa Paula 5

Huntington Beach 13, Marina 1

Irvine 11, Irvine University 5

Kaiser 7, Northview 4

Katella 12, Buena Park 5

Knight 13, Antelope Valley 0

La Canada 6, San Marino 0

Laguna Beach 2, Sage Hill 1

Laguna Hills 7, Ocean View 4

Lancaster 15, Palmdale 4

Loara 3, Century 2

Liberty 8, Heritage 1

Long Beach Jordan 11, Rolling Hills Prep 8

Long Beach Poly 2, Lakewood 1

Long Beach Wilson 1, Millikan 0

Los Alamitos 6, Edison 5

Loyola 5, St. Francis 4

Magnolia 10, Santa Ana Valley 5

Maranatha 6, Whittier Christian 3

Mark Keppel 4, Bell Gardens 1

Mary Star of the Sea 31, Verbum Dei 0

Mission Viejo 7, Capistrano Valley Christian 0

Monrovia 5, South Pasadena 3

Montebello 12, Oxford Academy 0

Norco 7, Corona Centennial 4

Norwalk 4, Firebaugh 0

Nuview Bridge 11, San Jacinto Leadership 1

Oak Hills 11, Serrano 7

Orange 17, Balsa Grande 11

Paramount 18, Lynwood 1

Patriot 7, Jurupa Valley 6

Pioneer Valley 10, Bishop Diego 0

Placentia Valencia 8, Santa Ana 4

Pomona 15, Workman 5

Ramona 10, Rubidoux 0

Rancho Christian 6 Citrus Hill 4

Rancho Verde 12, Vista del Lago 0

Redondo Union 6, Mira Costa 2

Riverside North 11, Canyon Springs 6

Riverside Poly 1, Arlington 0

Rosemead 11, Pioneer 5

Royal 6, Simi Valley 2

Salesian 14, SAt. Genevieve 4

San Bernardino 19, Pacific 11

Santa Barbara 4, Rio Mesa 3

Santa Monica Pacifica Christian 11, Southlands Christian 9

Santa Ynez 15, Malibu 9

Saugus 10, Canyon Country Canyon 3

Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 5, Chaminade 4

Sierra Canton 19, Crespi 2

Silver Valley 19, ACE 18

South Torrance 9, North Torrance 2

St. Anthony 1, Bosco Tech 0

St. Bonaventure 12, Grace 4

St. John Bosco 13, JSerra 0

St. Margaret’s 6, Portola 2

Tesoro 3, Murrieta Valley 0

Valley View 6, Orange Vista 0

Ventura 3, San Marcos 2

Warren 6, Downey 5

Western 14, Garden Grove Santiago 13

Westminster 15, Whitney 6

Woodbridge 7, Northwood 1

INTERSECTIONAL

Fullerton 12, Idaho Owyhee 2

Marquez 4, Mountain View 2

SOFTBALL

CITY SECTION

Animo Leadership 23, Alliance Ouchi 18

Chatsworth 5, Chavez 1

Cleveland 13, SOCES 3

Fremont 14, Diego Rivera 4

Harbor Teacher 11, LA Roosevelt 2

Marquez 11, Eagle Rock 3

Monroe 31, Canoga Park 30

Sylmar 9, Van Nuys 2

Taft 11, Northridge Academy 5

SOUTHERN SECTION

ACE 21, Silver Valley 0

Anaheim 12, Loara 1

Apple Valley 5, Quartz Hill 1

Aquinas 10, Carter 4

Arbor View 11, Sultana 0

Ayala 8, Diamond Bar 0

Azusa 6, Baldwin Park 4

Big Bear 18, Lucerne Valley 0

Bishop Montgomery 5, Rosary Academy 4

Canyon Springs 7, West Valley 1

Cathedral City 10, Palm Springs 0

Colony 10, Don Lugo 6

Coronado 7, Lakewood 6

Costa Mesa 17, Samueli Academy 6

Dana Hills 13, Northwood 3

Dos Pueblos 12, Oxnard Pacifica 2

Duarte 10, Gahr 0

Heritage Christian 14, Village Christian 3

Hesperia 18, Granite Hills 17

Hesperia Christian 20, Bethel Christian 8

Jurupa Valley 7, Patriot 6

La Canada 15, Muir 11

La Puente 13, Bassett 1

Mission Bay 10, Mayfield 0

Monrovia 25, Blair 1

Norte Vista 20, La Sierra 9

Northview 2, Los Osos 2

Oceanside 9, Santa Ana Foothill 6

Orange 10, Western 0

Ramona 16, Rubidoux 0

Rancho Christian 17, Sherman Indian 7

Rancho Cucamonga 12, Ontario Christian 7

Redlands East Valley 14, Heritage 2

Riverside King 10, Corona 1

Riverside Poly 10, Santa Margarita 0

San Bernardino 32, Pacific 4

San Clemente 6, Spanish Springs 2

San Dimas 10, South El Monte 6

San Marcos 6, Ventura 4

Sierra Canyon 12, Shadow Ridge 2

Sierra Vista 11, Nogales 9

South Pasadena 8, San Marino 7

Valley View 4, Riverside North 1

INTERSECTIONAL

Bakersfield Frontier 4, Paraclete 2

Carson 15, Galena 0

Carson 9, Louisville 2

Eastside 2, Bakersfield Ridgeview 0

Eastside 9, Chavez 5

Flintridge Scared Heart 12, La Jolla Country Day 0

Louisville 3, Nevada Foothill 3

Mission Viejo 6, Nevada Douglas 5

Paraclete 8, Tulare Union 4

Santa Margarita 6, Nevada Reed 0

Trabuco Hills 18, Galena 4

Utah Lehi 3, Mission Viejo 0

Harvard-Westlake doesn’t drop too many series in baseball these days, but if there’s one coach who gives the Wolverines fits, it’s Randy Thompson of Bishop Alemany. The reminder happened years ago when Harvard-Westlake had three future first-round draft picks on the same team in Max Fried, Lucas Giolito and Jack Flaherty, and Alemany defeated that powerful Wolverines team with Giolito on the mound.

On Friday, Alemany (8-3, 4-1 Mission League) completed a week in which it took two of three games from the Wolverines with a 10-4 victory. Apparently success against Harvard-Westlake isn’t just limited to the head coach. Thompson’s son, Brody, hit two home runs and a double and finished with three RBIs. Also hitting two home runs was Chase Stevenson, who had three hits and two RBIs.

Alemany had 16 hits on the day.

Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 5, Chaminade 4: The Knights (10-0) stayed unbeaten, with Dru Wilson’s RBI single in the sixth breaking a 4-4 tie. Malakye Matsumoto had three hits and three RBIs, including a home run. Lachlan Clark threw four innings of scoreless relief with seven strikeouts and no walks. Andrew Chute had a home run and three RBIs for Chaminade.

Loyola 5, St. Francis 4: Freshman Anthony Adame closed out the win with two innings of stellar relief and three strikeouts in the eight-inning contest. Austin Junk drove in the winning run with a double.

Sierra Canyon 19, Crespi 2: Charlie Cummings had two doubles, a single and three RBIs for Sierra Canyon.

Royal 6, Simi Valley 2: Dustin Dunwoody struck out 16 in six innings for Royal.

Hart 15, Valencia 14: The Hawks survived a four-run rally by Valencia in the seventh to win a wild Foothill League game. Justin Gaisford had a home run and five RBIs for Valencia. Hart received four hits and three RBIs for Matix Frithsmith. Josh Whitson had three hits and four RBIs and Hayden Rhodes hit a three-run home run. The two teams combined for 49 runs and 11 errors in two games. Another game ended in a 10-10 tie.

El Camino Real 6, Chatsworth 3: RJ De La Rosa and Jackson Sellz each had two RBIs to help El Camino Real stay unbeaten in the West Valley League.

Birmingham 8, Granada Hills 2: Carlos Acuna struck out five in six innings, Aidan Martinez struck out three in one inning of relief and Julius Monroe-Truitt had three RBIs for Birmingham.

Cleveland 3, Taft 2: Ezra Preis had two hits and two RBIs for the Cavaliers.

Bell 17, Huntington Park 1: Daniel Garcia had two triples and three RBIs for 12-1 Bell.

Carson 6, Banning 4: The Colts took control of the Marine League race this week. Skylar Vinson had two hits.

St. John Bosco 13, JSerra 0: For the fifth time in seven games, St. John Bosco (7-0), ranked No. 1 by The Times, recorded a shutout. Jack Champlin started and gave up one hit in five innings. Jhett Ohira had three hits and three RBIs. Ohira was seven for 12 in the Braves’ three-game sweep of JSerra.

Corona del Mar 8, Newport Harbor 1: Stevie Jones gave up one run in 6⅔ innings and Ryan Williams and Grant Horsley each had two hits.

La Canada 6, San Marino 0: Joe Bell threw a five-hit shutout and had two hits and three RBIs.

El Dorado 4, Villa Park 2: Brady Abner had the tying triple and Xavi Cadena hit the winning home run.

Corona 19, King 7: Anthony Murphy had a home run, a double and two singles. He also struck out three batters in his one inning of relief. Trey Ebel added two hits and three RBIs.

Norco 7, Corona Centennial 4: Dylan Seward and Jordan Ayala hit home runs for Norco.

Corona Santiago 9, Eastvale Roosevelt 1: Striker Pence hit a two-run home run and Joshua Angulo had two hits and three RBIs for Santiago. Ayden White threw three innings of hitless relief.

Redondo Union 6, Mira Costa 2: Robby Zimmerman struck out eight in 5⅔ innings.

Cypress 7, Mater Dei 5: Austin Gerken hit a three-run home run for Mater Dei, but Drew Slevcove got the save for Cypress.

Los Alamitos 6, Edison 5: A two-run double by Willie Adams keyed the comeback win.

Bishop Amat 7, St. Paul 0: Ashton Chavez, Kevin Martin and Izaac Muniz combined on the shutout. Omar Arretche had three hits for Bishop Amat.

Softball

Norco 14, Corona Centennial 0: Leighton Gray hit two home runs for Norco.