This week’s Orange County high school baseball rankings, as of Monday, May 5.

Notable this week: Huntington Beach swept Edison in three games to clinch an eighth straight league championship. … Orange Lutheran and Santa Margarita clinched playoff berths in the Trinity League. … Villa Park swept a two-game series against Foothill in the Crestview League. … Aliso Niguel rises two positions after a three-game sweep of Tesoro in the South Coast League. … El Modena enters Top 25.

BASEBALL TOP 25

(Records through Sunday, May 4)

Jayton Greer (50) of Huntington Beach celebrates with teammates at home plate after hitting a two run home run in a Sunset League baseball game against Los Alamitos at Huntington Beach High School in Huntington Beach on Friday, April 18, 2025. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

1. Huntington Beach (19-4): The Oilers have clinched the Sunset League championship, their eighth straight baseball league championship. They swept Edison in three league games last week by scores of 18-1, 3-0 and 14-3 and are 15-2 in league. Trevor Goldenetz was 6 for 9 with six RBIs, five runs scored and three stolen bases.

Previous ranking: 1

2. Orange Lutheran (22-4): The Lancers will finish second in the Trinity League with a 10-5 league record. Last week they went 2-1 against Mater Dei. Wyatt Hanoian homered, doubled and drove in seven runs in a 16-0 win over Mater Dei. Gary Morse struck out six over five innings in a 3-1 win over the Monarchs.

Previous ranking: 2

3. Santa Margarita (15-12): The Eagles clinched third place in the Trinity League, and a guaranteed playoff berth in the CIF-SS playoffs by going 2-1 in a league series against Servite to finish 7-8 in league. Hayden George struck out seven Servite batters in his six innings of pitching in the Eagles’ 4-3 win.

Previous ranking: 3

4. Newport Harbor (22-6): The Sailors will finish second in the Sunset League. They swept Marina in a three-game series by scores of 5-4, 4-3 and 10-4 to go 14-4 in league. During the week, Gavin Guy pitched six scoreless innings, homered and drove in five runs, Lucas Perez pitched five shutout innings and had four hits and Wyatt Gahm was 6 for 10 with three doubles and four RBIs.

Previous ranking: 4

5. Cypress (16-10): The Centurions played one game last week, a 7-1 win over Ocean View in a nonleague game. Owen Schwab hit a home run and Spencer Kwon was 2 for three with two RBIs. Cypress, 7-3 in league, is tied with Villa Park for first place in the Crestview League. The Centurions defeated Villa Park in two of their three league games. They play El Modena twice this week.

Previous ranking: 5

Villa Park’s Logan Hoppie (29) delivers a pitch against Foothill during their Crestview League baseball game in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, March 7, 2025. Foothill beat Villa Park, 2 to 0. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

6. Villa Park (21-5): The Spartans, 7-3 in the Crestview League, is tied with Cypress for the league lead. They beat Foothill twice last week 6-4 and 11-2. Aidan Young was 8 for 12 with two home runs and seven RBIs. Shawn Romer was 6 for 11 with five RBIs. Villa Park plays El Dorado twice this week.

Previous ranking: 6

7. Los Alamitos (17-9-2): The Griffins, in third place in the Sunset League, won two of three league games against Fountain Valley to clinch a playoff berth. Damon Valdez drove in three runs in a 6-2 win. Tyler Peskhe homered with two RBIs in a 7-4 win in Los Alamitos’ final game of the regular season.

8. JSerra (10-15): The Lions were swept by Trinity League champion St. John Bosco in a three-game series. Although JSerra has several wins over playoff-bound teams, JSerra will not be in the CIF Southern Section playoffs because the Lions did not finish third or better in the six-team Trinity League and they do not have the .500-or-better overall record to meet the criteria to receive an at-large berth.

Previous ranking: 8

9. El Dorado (19-7): The Golden Hawks split a two-game Crestview League series with El Modena. They lost to El Modena 2-0 and beat the Vanguards 5-4. Over the two games, Logan Steenburgen pitched six innings and had three hits, David Domingo was 4 for 8 and Diego Gonzalez had three hits including a double. The Golden Hawks play two league games against Villa Park this week.

Previous ranking: 9

10. Trabuco Hills (20-7-1): The Mustangs swept Capistrano Valley in a three-game South Coast League series. They are tied with Aliso Niguel for first place in the league. Trabuco Hills beat Aliso Niguel twice in their three-game league series. Included in the sweep of Capistrano Valley was an 18-8 win in which Sam Crouse homered, drove in two runs and struck out nine in three innings of pitching and Evan Hall had three hits including a triple and had three RBIs.

Previous ranking: 12

11. Servite (14-13)

Previous ranking: 11

12. Aliso Niguel (22-6)

Previous ranking: 14

13. Foothill (16-11)

Previous ranking: 10

14. Mater Dei (14-13)

Previous ranking: 13

15. Laguna Beach (23-3)

Previous ranking: 15

16. San Clemente (18-9)

Previous ranking: 18

17. Fullerton (18-8-1)

Previous ranking: 16

18. Fountain Valley (15-11)

Previous ranking: 17

19. Edison (13-14)

Previous ranking: 19

20. Corona del Mar (12-14)

Previous ranking: 20

21. Canyon (17-8)

Previous ranking: 21

22. La Habra (17-9)

Previous ranking: 24

23. El Modena (11-16)

Previous ranking: Not ranked

24. Crean Lutheran (17-9)

Previous ranking: 22

25. Brea Olinda (17-6)

Previous ranking: 23

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