OVLL All Stars capture district championship

The Oak View Little League 11- and 12-year-old tournament baseball team won the District 63 title Sunday.
The OVLL All-Stars lost their first game, which dropped them into the loser's bracket. There, they won seven games in a row to capture the title.
After losing game one, 1-0, to Carpinteria, they beat Santa Paula, 11-1, Montalvo, 3-2, Foothill, 12-2, Saticoy, 5-4, and faced Carpinteria again, where they won, 6-0, to earn a berth in the championship game.
Facing Goleta Valley and needing to beat them two games in a row, Oak View defeated Goleta, 1-0, in game one, and 8-1 in game two to win the championship.
The players are: Jimmie Johnson, Thomas Quackenbush, Tyler Richardson, Michael Marrietta, Michael Garcia, Kiko David, Garrett Ochoa, Trevor Leal, Cody Keller, Joseph Brazier, Steven Merrill and Eric White. The manager is Jon Johnson and coaches are Glenn Pinkard, Tim Leal and Robert Garcia.
The Oak View All Stars Move into the section tournament, which starts Friday in Santa Paula at 6:30 p.m. against North Side Little League of Oxnard.
© 2003 The Ojai Valley News

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