Fryer on baseball: Championships have been won, but season continues with all-star games

Cypress, Kennedy and Santa Margarita celebrated winning CIF-Southern Section championships Saturday.

But the high school baseball season is not over.

The Orange County All-Star Baseball Game is Tuesday at Glover Stadium in Anaheim. The La Palma Park sports complex’s baseball field is called Dee Fee Field but most people still, and perhaps always will, call the sports facility Glover Stadium.

This the 52nd edition of the game that is organized and managed by the Kiwanis Club of Greater Anaheim for charity. It is the first of a few postseason all-star baseball games.

Most-recent tabulations have 139 Major League Baseball players having played in this game including Hall of Famers Bert Blyleven (Santiago) and Gary Carter (Sunny Hills) and Yankees manager Aaron Boone (Villa Park) and Angels all-time great pitcher Mike Witt (Servite) who was the pitching coach at Santa Margarita when current Angels pitcher Griffin Canning threw for the Eagles.

The event begins with pregame ceremonies, including player introductions, at 6:40 p.m., and the first pitch at 7 p.m. It is a nine-inning game with plentiful substitutions. Admission is $5.

The rosters:

North: Nathan Alarcon, Rancho Alamitos; Kyle Ashworth, Foothill; Dallas Burke, Los Alamitos; Tyler Chaffee, Cypress; Knolton Clark, Servite; Caden Connor, Orange Lutheran; Jasiah Dixon, Orange Lutheran; Ketch Gannon, Foothill; Hector Garcia, Sonora; Louie Garza, Sunny Hills; Michael Hill, Katella; Cory Lewis, Marina; Gavin Lizik, Esperanza; Mike Marsh, Cypress; CJ Masciel, Servite; Jacob Mendoza, Loara; Patrick Monroe, Loara; Kyle Morrell, El Dorado; Alex Pimental, Villa Park; Isaac Ramirez, Sonora; Cameron Repetti, Cypress; Jovanny Reyes, Pacifica; Dalton Sloniger, Valencia; Blake Wink, Yorba Linda. Coach: Shawn Gilbert, Servite.

South: Cutter Clawson, Laguna Beach; Michael Curialle, JSerra; Cole Danaher, El Toro; Trevor Ernt, Beckman; Marc Filia, Irvine; Evan Fitterer, Aliso Niguel; Kolton Freeman, Laguna Beach; Logan Gallina, Dana Hills; Lance Gardiner, Capistrano Valley; Josh Hahn, Huntington Beach; Ethan Hoopingarner, Aliso Niguel; Gavin Kennedy, Ocean View; Blake Klassen, JSerra; Grant Lockwood, Irvine; Quinn Mathews, Aliso Niguel; Connor McGuire, Beckman; John Olmstead, Newport Harbor; Nick Pinto, Tesoro; Alex Schrier, Santa Margarita; Kyle Scott, Mater Dei; Matt Swartz, Edison; Dylan Tanner Trabuco Hills; Zach Waters, Dana Hills; Tommy Wilcox, Corona del Mar. Coach: Tom Faris, Dana Hills.

Around the horn:

• The Senior Showcase is a three-day baseball event May 31-June 2 at the Great Park Baseball Stadium in Irvine. It will feature the top senior players from 12 O.C. leagues. Admission is $8, $5 for senior citizens (60 and over) and children 12 and younger are admitted free. Go to RyanLemmonFoundation.com for schedules and more information.

• Cypress won CIF-SS championships in baseball and softball last week. The only other time that an Orange County school won CIF-SS championships in both diamond sports was 1990, when Marina won CIF-SS baseball and softball titles. Softball became a CIF-SS championship sport in 1976.

• Ten runs were scored over three games and 26 innings in the three CIF-SS baseball finals played Saturday at Dodger Stadium. And seven of those runs were scored by one team, Division 3 champion Great Oak of Temecula, in one inning. So after Great Oak’s seven runs in the fourth inning of the Division 3 game, three runs were scored over the following 22 innings at Dodger Stadium.

• The Rotary Club of Whittier has a high school baseball all-star game Tuesday – its 23rd All-Star Baseball Classic at York Field in Whittier. The game is for graduating seniors from 12 high schools in the Whittier area including La Habra and Whittier Christian. The event, for which admission is $6 for adults and $3 for children, begins with a home run contest at 4:30 p.m., an all-star softball game at 5 p.m. and the baseball game at 6:30 p.m.

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