Baseball: First-stringers are playing in VIBL playoffs

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If it’s VIBL playoff time, it means the big guns are back from their showcases and ready to contribute.

West Hills Chaminade unleashed two of its top pitchers Saturday, Oregon State-bound Mathew Troupe and Stanford-bound Dalton Brown, and they combined on a three-hitter to beat Newhall Hart, 2-1.Troupe struck out 10 in six innings. Tyler Glasnow of Hart struck out seven in 5 2/3 innings.

It sets up a showdown with top-seeded Chatsworth on Monday at 5 p.m. at Chatsworth, when Brown should oppose Chatsworth’s Aaron Brown.

Michael Dergazarian had four hits in El Camino Real’s 5-1 win over Simi Valley. West Ranch defeated Golden Valley, 2-1. A.J. Balta and Alex Bishop had three hits apiece in Valencia’s 16-2 win over Birmingham. Alemany defeated Harvard-Westlake, 3-2, in 10 innings. Moorpark defeated Canyon, 10-3.

Jerry Barajas came in to get the save in Taft’s 7-4 win over Saugus. Zach Friedman broke a 4-4 tie in the seventh with a bases-loaded single.

Here’s link to Monday’s matchups.

-- Eric Sondheimer