FOUNTAIN VALLEY — Having picked up a key Sunset League victory Friday over Edison High, the Newport Harbor baseball team ventured to Fountain Valley on a blustery Wednesday, hoping to keep its momentum going against the league-leading Barons.
The Sailors played on even terms with the third-ranked team in CIF Southern Section Division 1 on a wind-whipped afternoon, but Fountain Valley put up the go-ahead run in the bottom of the fifth inning and made it stand to come away with a 3-2 victory.
It kept the Barons alone in first place in the league standings. They'll take a 9-1 league record and 16-6 overall mark into Friday's league series finale at Newport.
The Sailors (10-11, 3-7) limited a potent Fountain Valley offense, one that had scored 15 runs in two wins last week against then-No. 1 ranked Huntington Beach, to single runs in the second, fourth and fifth innings.