Baseball: National Classic reveals ambitious teams

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It doesn’t take much guessing to figure out which high school baseball teams this spring have ambitions of winning a championship. All you have to do is see which schools decided to enter the National Classic in Orange County.

Those are the schools that think they have enough quality pitching to make it through a brutal stretch of games against top competition.

So here they are: Encino Crespi, Huntington Beach Edison, Valencia West Ranch, West Covina South Hills, La Puente Bishop Amat, Orange Lutheran, Anaheim Esperanza, Palm Desert, Peninsula, Santa Ana Mater Dei and Placentia El Dorado.

Many of the schools figure to be top 25 material. The tournament is April 3-8.

-- Eric Sondheimer