5-A ROUNDUP

In other 5-A games:

Katella 2, Beverly Hills 1--Thanks to pitcher Corey Doll’s control and defense and a key play by second baseman Frank Montalvo, visiting Katella upset Bay League champion Beverly Hills.

Katella, 17-10 and the third-place finisher in the Empire League, will play host to Sunset League champion Fountain Valley (23-5) Tuesday. Fountain Valley defeated Eisenhower, 11-4, Friday.

The Normans (17-7) brought a .366 batting average into Friday’s game and reached Doll (8-4) for seven hits. But Doll got help from his defense.

Montalvo retired pinch-hitter Doron Barness with one out in the seventh inning, fielding a ball that deflected off first baseman Kyle Evans, and then throwing back to Evans. Designated hitter Adam Dave followed with a walk, but Allen Fischer grounded Doll’s first pitch to Evans for the final out.

Doll pitched a complete game, striking out four and walking one.

D.J. Sutton (10-0 with a 0.69 earned-run average before Friday), held Katella hitless for the first three innings, before allowing Orlando Gonzalez’s bunt single leading off the fourth. Sutton then retired the next three batters.

Pinch-hitter Frank Cortez opened the fifth inning with a single to right. Dax Dowling forced pinch-runner George Schalip, and stole second base. Dennis Briggs walked, and Kyle Evans followed with a single, scoring Dowling. Doll reached on third baseman’s Bryan Urda’s third error of the game, loading the bases.

Gonzalez drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly to center fielder Greg Holmes, whose throw skipped by catcher Ben Alexander.