The Santa Clarita Bulldogs, a 12-and-under youth baseball team, won a Cooperstown Dream Week championship in New York.

The Bulldogs beat the Clayton Heat from North Carolina, 7-4, in the championship game.

The Heat took a 2-1 lead on a pair of solo home runs in the championship game. But the Bulldogs rallied and took the lead in the fourth inning. Cole Bygum drove in two runs to put the Bulldogs up 3-2.

Jacob Silva extended the lead to 5-2 with a two-run home run in the fifth inning. Jack Ralston made it 6-2 with a solo home run later in the fifth inning.

The Bulldogs went undefeated at 6-0 in the week leading up to the championship game of the tournament.

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In college baseball, Chad Kreuter was fired as head coach of the USC baseball team by Pat Haden, the new athletic director at the University of Southern California.

Kreuter, who was a catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, coached USC for four years and compiled a record of 111-117. USC was 28-32 last year and 7-20 in the Pac-10. The Trojans were 10^th in the Pac-10 standings last year.

Haden named assistant coach Frank Cruz interim head coach for the 2011 season.

In college football, UCLA Bruins coach Rick Neuheisel suspended offensive lineman Mike Harris for the season opener against Kansas State for violating team rules.

Harris, a 6-foot-5, 319-pound tackle, started all 13 games for UCLA and shared the team most improved offensive player award last year.

The Dodgers optioned reliever Ramon Troncoso to the Albuquerque Dukes to perhaps clear space for the return of Ronald Belisario. Troncoso was effective in his most recent stint with the Dodgers, posting 2 1/3 scoreless innings over two games since being recalled from Triple-A on Aug. 3. But he has a 4.85 in 39 innings with the Dodgers this year.

Belisario, who has been on the restricted list since July 7, has a 3.79 ERA in 35 2/3 innings for the Dodgers in 2010.

Belisario pitched for the Dodgers Class-A Inland Empire team over the weekend and could join the team in Philadelphia for tonight’s game.

The Dodgers are in Philadelphia to start a three-game series with the Phillies. It will be Vicente Padilla for the Dodgers against Kyle Kendrick for the Phillies. Pregame starts at 3:30 on AM 1220, KHTS.