GLENDORA – Glendora and Temecula Valley traded punches during Tuesday’s CIF Southern Section Division 3 semifinals, but it was the Tartans who delivered the decisive blow late.

Glendora’s Danniel Conness came off the bench to pinch hit with a tie score in the sixth inning after the Tartans put runners on second and third with no outs. Conness delivered, smacking a single to right center that scored Mason Danison and Aiden Yamazaki for the go-ahead runs and the Tartans went on to win 7-5.

“Daniel has done that a few times for us,” Glendora coach Jerry Lewallen said. “Nothing gets him riled up. He stays loose, relaxed and he’s come through for us many times.”

Conness said he just tried to stay calm.

“It was really hype, really emotional, a lot of things going through your head,” Conness said of his go-ahead two-run single. “Whatever God’s plan is for you, just execute it.”

Glendora (21-10) advances to take on neighboring San Dimas, a 4-1 winner over Beckman, in Friday or Saturday’s championship at a site to be determined on Wednesday.

Glendora will be playing for its first championship since winning the Division 2 title in 2010. The Tartans reached the finals after finishing third in the Palomares League, but Lewallen wouldn’t necessarily call it a surprise.

“I don’t know, that is a goal of ours (playing for a championship), but you focus on the small things,” Lewallen said. “The daily work and things you got to do in practice in hopes those small things add up to big things. And so far it has.”

Glendora staring pitcher Brayden Johnson exited after four innings in a 5-5 tie, with the Tartans asking freshman Sebastian Lawrence to settle things down for the stretch run.

Lawrence, who was the starting quarterback on Glendora’s football team that advanced to the CIF-SS Division 6 championship game in the final, delivered a big-time performance.

Lawrence threw two no-hit innings in the fifth and sixth and had retired eight straight before allowing a two-out triple in the seventh. Then he got a pop-out to end the game, finishing three shutout innings to start the celebration.

“Just breathe out there, it’s not the end of the world, just throw stikes,” Lawrence said of enterting in a tight spot. “It’s just incredible knowing all the hard work I put in paid off. But I have fantastic coaches and fantastic teammates around me. Brayden through four fantastic innings. The scoreboard might not show it, but he threw his heart out and the offense did as well. They put the runs up that we needed to win.”

Through four innings, it went back and forth.

Glendora missed an opportunity for a big first inning after loading the bases with no outs.

The Tartans took a 1-0 lead on Tyler Obert’s sacrifice fly to right that scored Santiago Garza.

But the Golden Bears escaped further damage with an inning ending double play.

Temecula Valley scored on a double steal in the second inning.

On the throw home to get Temecula Valley’s Ryan Recio, Glendora catcher Tyler Obert had Recio tagged out by two feet, but the umpire ruled Obert blocked the plate, allowing the run to score to tie it up, 1-1.

Glendora took advantage of Temecula Valley mistakes to tack on two runs.

With Glendora’s Tanner Grable on second and Danison on first, Golden Bears pitcher Grayson Marin’s pickoff attempt at second sailed into center for an error, and the ball skipped past the centerfielder for another error, allowing both players to round the bases and score.

The Tartans weren’t done.

Aaron Jacobsen’s two-out single scored Yamazaki to extend their lead to 4-1 lead in the second inning.

The Tartans lead was short lived, however.

Recio smacked a mammoth three-run homer to tie the score, 4-4, in the third inning.

Glendora’s Jackson Glaze led off the bottom half of the third with a double, and later scored on Yamazaki’s sacrifice fly for a 5-4 lead.

But the Golden Bears would tie the score again in the fourth on Chase Hilt’s RBI groundout that scored Stafford Johnson to make it 5-5.

TUESDAY’S SCORES

Division 3

Glendora 7, Temecula Valley 5

San Dimas 4, Beckman 1

Division 4

Ganesha 11, South Torrance 1

Division 6

Marshall 4, Heritage Christian 3

Division 8

Pioneer 3, Valencia/Valencia 1

Division 9

Mountain View 2, Coastal Christian 0