Mowatt’s Streak Is Over

The ball that bounced off the pitching shoulder of Corona Santiago senior Taryne Mowatt on Saturday did something her coach could not. It kept her out of a softball game.

The deep shoulder bruise -- courtesy of a line drive off the bat of Norco’s Ursula Lopez in the seventh inning of the title game of the Corona tournament -- was enough to end Mowatt’s streak of consecutive innings pitched at 589 1/3.

In her place, freshman Kelsey Bruder pitched a six-hitter, giving up two runs in the first inning, in Santiago’s 4-2 victory over Ontario Christian on Monday.

Mowatt also didn’t pitch Tuesday against Chino in the first round of the Jurupa Valley tournament.

“It’s a bad bruise,” Coach John Perez said. “It’s day by day.”

The streak dates to “the seventh or eighth” game of Mowatt’s freshman season, Perez said, when she made a relief appearance against Ontario Christian.

Mowatt (4-1), who has signed with Arizona, finished the game against Norco. She gave up a home run in the eighth inning of a 1-0 loss.

In 37 2/3 innings this season, she has given up 13 hits and two earned runs, and struck out 68.

Martin Henderson

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Track and Field

Defending state champions Lionel Larry of Compton Dominguez and David Gettis of Los Angeles Dorsey top the list of Southland entrants scheduled to compete in the inaugural California Relays at the Home Depot Center in Carson on April 9-10.

Larry, a senior who attended a news conference at a Torrance hotel to promote the meet, is the second-fastest returning 200-meter sprinter in the nation with a best of 20.87 seconds.

Gettis, a junior, is tied for seventh on the list of returning competitors in the 400 with a best of 47.14.

Sophomore Myra Hasson of Gardena is one of the top local entrants in the girls’ portion of the meet that will be held on the same days as the 37th Arcadia Invitational.

Hasson finished second in the 400 in last year’s state championships.

Gayle Hunter of Riverside North and Carol Rodriguez and Ebony Collins of Long Beach Wilson posted victories in the Nike Indoor championships at the Prince Georges County Sportsplex at Landover, Md.

Hunter, a senior, won the girls’ long jump with a mark of 19 feet 10 3/4 inches Sunday after winning the pentathlon with 3,709 points Saturday.

Rodriguez, a senior, won the girls’ 200 in 24.22 on Sunday about 30 minutes after freshman Collins won the girls’ 400 in 55.05.

John Ortega

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Boys’ Tennis

North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake (4-0), ranked No. 3 by The Times, will play host to Calabasas (4-0) in a nonleague match today at Studio City Golf and Tennis.

Calabasas finished with a 20-3 record last season behind section singles champion Gary Sacks.

A junior, Sacks is being home-schooled this year, but the Coyotes still have great depth.

Harvard-Westlake is led by singles players Joshua Lederman (6-0), a junior, and senior Jon Greenberg (5-1), whose only loss has come to Rolling Hills Estates Peninsula’s Trevor Dobson, 6-3, in the Wolverines’ first match of the season.

Elia Powers

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Girls’ Swimming

Sophomore distance freestyle swimmer Brooke Cashion will sit out Irvine’s nonleague meet Thursday against Lake Forest El Toro as part of a Southern Section-imposed penalty for competing as an attached club swimmer in a recent U.S. junior sectional meet without the written approval of her school.

As punishment, Cashion is required to sit out two high school meets. She already has sat out one meet, the Capistrano Valley Invitational on Saturday.

-- Lauren Peterson