TUKWILA, Wash. -- Osvaldo Alonso and Fredy Montero each scored a pair of second-half goals, and the Seattle Sounders scored their goals in a span of 20 minutes on Tuesday night to end amateur side Cal FC's run through the U.S. Open Cup with a 5-0 victory.

Alex Caskey also scored for Seattle, which was kept off the board for nearly 50 minutes by the team from Thousand Oaks, before Alonso converted a penalty kick.

In the next two days, a number of Kern County athletes could see their cell phones light up with the call of their lives or see their name pop up on a Major League Baseball website for the thrill of their lives.

"No lie, it's very exciting," said Mark Peterson, father to Brent Peterson, one of several local prospects hoping to get taken in the MLB Draft that began with Monday's first round and continues today and Wednesday.

Camps

Basketball: Twice weeky. Beginners/intermediate, 5-6 p.m. Advanced, 6-7 p.m. Coach is Chris Clayton, formerly of East High, Texas A&M. Call (661) 410-3343. Starts Monday.

It was only a matter of time before the Blaze took advantage of a less than stellar performance by the Modesto Nuts, who walked 10 batters.

And Devin Lohman's go-ahead three-run homer in the seventh off Nuts' reliever Chad Rose, was just enough to give the Blaze a 7-6 win over Modesto in the series finale at Sam Lynn Ballpark on Monday.

As the night wore on at Bakersfield Speedway on Saturday, one thing became painfully apparent: nothing was going smoothly.

Caution flags and race-halting red flags ate up time and by the time the featured event -- a 25-lap IMCA Modified race -- took the to the track the 11-o'clock curfew was looming.

The Modesto Nuts pounded out five doubles and came from behind to beat the Bakersfield Blaze, 5-4, snapping Bakersfield's six-game win streak and sending the team to its fifth straight Sunday afternoon defeat.

The Blaze had the lead in the second thanks to a 2-run homer by Niko Vasquez, and then again in the third when Billy Hamilton reached on a base hit to right, stole second -- his 62nd of the year -- and scored on Devin Lohman's seventh home run, a deep drive over the leftfield fence. Hamilton was 2-for-5 with a double to improve his average to .330.

The heat races went smoothly Saturday night at Bakersfield.

The features?

Blaze starter Josh Smith threw six shutout innings Saturday night as Bakersfield beat the Modesto Nuts 3-2 at Sam Lynn Ballpark. Smith stuck out nine and allowed four hits and two walks.

The Blaze opened the game's scoring in the fifth inning when Tucker Barnhart tripled to right field, scoring Dominic D'Anna. Theo Bowe then singled to score Barnhart.

CLOVIS -- Independence's girls 400 relay team didn't stand on the top of the podium, but they stood somewhere on it, and that had them running off the Veterans Memorial Stadium infield like champions.

Just more than 24 hours earlier, in fact, the Falcons weren't even sure they'd get to race at all. Independence was nearly disqualified before Friday's preliminaries when it tried to use Tyra Saunders as an alternate, thinking she was on the approved list.

One can imagine the excitement two Bakersfield teenagers felt when receiving an invitation to travel to Germany to compete in a volleyball tournament featuring some of that country's top youth players.

Sophie Hoover and Rachel Ralphs, accompanied by their parents, took the 15-plus hour flight, fought through jet lag and prepared to show their skills half-a-world away from home.

CLOVIS -- It wasn't a traditional California gold rush, but a rush of different colors is almost as sweet.

Kern County athletes took home seven medals from the CIF State Track and Field Championships on Saturday at Veterans Memorial Stadium.

Baseball is full of irony. In the last three weeks, I've gotten my first win, loss, save and blown save with the Greenville Drive (Class-low A with the Boston Red Sox).

The win came in a game where I entered the ninth inning with a 2-run lead. I gave up two runs and got my first blown save of the year. We entered extra innings due to the tie game and in the bottom of the 10th inning. One of our best hitters came up big and hit a walk off single.

CLOVIS -- His day wasn't yet over, but Stockdale track and field coach Dave Lonsinger found himself a quiet and cool spot in Memorial Stadium -- not easy on a 103-degree Friday -- and took a moment to reflect.

"No complaints here," he said, midway through Day 1 of the CIF State Track and Field Championships. "We've had a great day."

IRVINE -- The stoic stare Jamy Duran has worn during a record-setting era for the Kern Valley High softball team was still there Friday night following her final game in blue and gold. It just had some unfamiliar company.

The whites around her hazel eyes had a soft red hue, her cheeks were moist and lips pursed after a 5-2 loss to Redlands-Citrus Valley in the CIF Southern Section Division VI championship game.

CLOVIS -- Brena Andrews knows all too well what a near miss feels like. Friday night at the CIF State Track and Field Championships, she felt the other side of that equation.

She likes this feeling much better.

SAN JOSE -- James Ewing went 3-for-5 with five RBIs to lead the Bakersfield Blaze to a 10-4 victory Friday over the first-place San Jose Giants.

The victory improved Bakersfield to 31-23, a half game behind the Giants (31-23).

The California Coaches Association will honor longtime Centennial High volleyball coach Brooke Roberts as its Girls Volleyball Coach of the Year award June 9.

Roberts will be honored at the CCA's Hall of Fame Banquet in San Diego next weekend after a season in which her Golden Hawks advanced to the Central Section championship match for the second consecutive year before losing in five games to Clovis West.

Stephen Neal, an outstanding wrestler at Cal State Bakersfield who became a starting offensive guard on three New England Patriots Super Bowl champion teams, will be inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame this weekend in Stillwater, Okla.

Neal, a native of San Diego, compiled a 156-10 record at CSUB and was the Division I national champion at heavyweight his junior and senior years in 1998 and 1999, when his records were 39-0 and 44-0, respectively.

SAN JOSE -- Danny Vicioso hit a go-ahead two-run single in the 12th inning as the Bakersfield Blaze defeated the San Jose Giants 7-4 on Thursday at Municipal Stadium.

Vicioso tied the game in the top of the ninth with an RBI double. Travis Mattair then gave Bakersfield a 4-3 lead on a fielder's choice RBI groundout. San Jose tied it in the ninth inning on a Dan Burkhart home run to right field.

It's been close to a decade, but Bakersfield High track and field coach Kim Jenkins still remembers well how he cut his coaching teeth.

"(Stockdale coach) Dave Lonsinger gave me an opportunity," Jenkins said Thursday, the eve of the CIF State Track and Field Championships in Clovis. "I coached Desirae Gonder to a state title in the high jump (for Stockdale in 2005). As a coach, you just don't want to mess that up."