Briefs: CdM’s Schwartz commits to UCLA

Just this month, JT Schwartz became the second Newport Beach baseball player to commit to a Pacific-12 Conference school.

Schwartz, an incoming sophomore shortstop at Corona del Mar High, said he has verbally committed to UCLA.

As a freshman, Schwartz, who bats left-handed, hit .380 and led the team with 16 runs batted in and 35 hits, and his 18 runs tied him for the top spot. He earned Daily Pilot Newport-Mesa Dream Team and second-team All-Pacific Coast League accolades.

Bock, a future senior at Sage Hill School, committed to UC Berkeley.

— David Carrillo Peñaloza

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OC Riptide Aquatics holding tryouts

The OC Riptide Aquatics swim team will be holding its annual open tryouts on Aug. 4 from 5-7 p.m. at Ocean View High’s pool in Huntington Beach.

Tryouts will be held by age group. Ages 7-8 will tryout from 5-5:30 p.m., ages 9-10 from 5:30-6 p.m., ages 11-12 from 6-6:30 p.m. and ages 13-14 and 15 and up from 6:30-7 p.m.

Swimmers invited to join can register on deck that day and choose either August or September as a start date. OC Riptide Aquatics is led by head coach Vladi Sapozhkov, who has 40 years of coaching experience developing athletes from childhood all the way to Olympic competitors.

For more information, visit www.ocriptideaquatics.org or email [email protected].

— From staff reports