Loara, Newport Elks baseball tournaments start Thursday

The baseball season already is a few days old, with a few nonleague games having been played.
The season goes from goes from stroll to gallop Thursday, the first day of the Loara Tournament and the Newport Elks Tournament.
The Loara Tournament is a 32-team. Loara Tournament teams that are in the Orange County preseason top 10 are No. 3 Santa Margarita, last season’s CIF-Southern Section Division 2 champion, No. 5 Cypress (last season’s Division 1 champion), No. 7 El Toro, No. 8 Dana