HIGH SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS : Simi Valley’s 7 Homers Barely Enough, 17-14

Simi Valley High Coach Mike Scyphers knew life without Scott Radinsky wouldn’t be easy, but he never imagined he’d see a game like the one he saw Saturday.

Simi Valley tied a school record with seven home runs but they almost weren’t enough for the Pioneers, who defeated El Segundo, 17-14, in the seventh-place game of the 32-team El Segundo tournament.

While watching Simi Valley hitters knock the ball over the fence, Scyphers also watched four of his pitchers allow nine hits, 10 walks and hit two batters.

“We’ve scored in the teens quite a bit,” Scyphers said. “But we haven’t had other teams do it to us. I can’t remember the last time we gave up that many runs.”

While Simi Valley (5-1) doesn’t have a pitcher the caliber of Radinsky, now in the White Sox organization, Scyphers doesn’t think Saturday’s game is indicative of his team’s future.

“Our pitching was decimated,” Scyphers said. “We’ve played five games in six days.”

Simi Valley led, 10-2, after the top of the fourth, but nearly blew that advantage before Scott Sharts put the game out of reach with home runs in the fifth and seventh innings. Don Ciannone, Tim Laker, Darren Lloyd and Marcus Lockwood also homered to tie the single-game record set in 1981 against Thousand Oaks.

In the consolation championship, Crespi used a hit, three walks and a hit batter to score four runs in the second inning then held on to beat Arcadia, 5-3.

In other tournament action, Greg Struhle, Bob Grandpre and Matt Franco hit home runs to lead Westlake to an 11-2 win over West Torrance in the third-place game of the consolation bracket.

Westlake (3-2) used an error and four hits, including Struhle’s three-run home run, to take a 5-0 lead in the first inning. Franco was 2 for 4 and is now 11 for 15 for the season. Struhle (2-0) pitched the first four innings and lowered his earned-run average to 1.80.

BASEBALL

Greg Haptor had three hits to lead Notre Dame to a 7-1 win over Venice in the first round of the Redondo-Palos Verdes tournament. Tim DeGrasse (1-1) pitched six innings, struck out three and walked four to pick up the win . . . Gary Nudell singled home Jimmy Ardell in the bottom of the seventh inning to give Harvard a 9-7 win over Brentwood and a sweep of the nonleague doubleheader at Harvard. Nudell was 6 for 7 in the second game and stole five bases. Buck Robinson (1-0) pitched the seventh inning to pick up the win for Harvard (2-2). In the first game, John Collins’ fifth-inning, two-run home run ignited a five-run rally to tie the score.

Jeff Cirillo pitched a one-hitter as Providence defeated Capistrano Valley Christian, 4-1, in the first round of the Serra tournament. Cirillo, the Southern Section Small Schools Player of the Year last season, struck out 11, walked four and didn’t allow an earned run. Cirillo is 2-0 and has struck out 23 batters in 13 innings.

SOFTBALL

Cathy Lewis struck out 17 and scattered two hits as Saugus defeated Santa Monica, 2-0, in the first round of the Hawthorne tournament. Saugus also won a second-round game against Mayfair, 5-2 . . . Kym Weil threw a two-hitter and struck out 11 as Hart defeated Burroughs, 3-0, in the championship game of the Simi Valley tournament. Weil, a freshman, was named the most valuable player. Hart (6-0) advanced to the championship by defeating Burbank, 3-0, earlier Saturday . . . Becca Berline, a freshman pitcher, had a three-run triple for Notre Dame (3-3) in a 12-3 win over Oxnard in the Simi Valley tournament. Notre Dame also beat Cabrillo, 5-1, in a second-round game. Berline (3-3) struck out three batters and walked none. Teammate Kristi Mullen was 2 for 4 . . . La Reina right fielder Sherry Cisco threw out Camarillo’s Kim Butler at home for the game’s final out to give La Reina a 13-12 win in the first game of a nonleague doubleheader. La Reina had led, 13-4, after five innings behind a three-run homer by Christa Grenot and a grand slam by Erin Sweeney. La Reina won the second game, 5-4 . . . Yukako Ogoshi hit a three-run double in the third inning to lead Simi Lutheran past the La Reina junior varsity, 12-9, in a nonleague game at La Reina. Sue Reynolds was 2 for 4 with two stolen bases for Simi Lutheran (2-1). Simi Lutheran committed 10 errors.