Pictured: Maranatha freshman, Eric Zdunek Baseball: Maranatha opened the 2023 season with a 3-1 victory over Newbury Park. Zach Strickland went six innings, allowing just an unearned run on one hit. Strickland walked one and fanned seven. Derek Turner singled and scored Newbury Park’s lone run. Seth Wesner was struck with the loss. Wener went […]
Baseball: Two of the San Gabriel Valley’s power programs met up Saturday in the 2023 season opener. Bonita edged visiting Northview, 2-1, as Justin Santiago threw a complete game. Santiago allowed just one run on three hits. He didn’t issue a walk and struck out 11 batters. Santiago needed just 79 pitches to get the […]
College Baseball: PCC picked up its fourth consecutive victory on Thursday. The Lancers handed visiting Victor Valley College a 6-5 setback by getting three runs in the fourth, one in the eighth and the game winner in the bottom of the 11th inning. Patrick Garcia is off to a hot start. One game after hitting […]
College Baseball: PCC won its third consecutive game of the 2023 season on Tuesday. The Lancers started and finished strong in a 12-5 victory at Victor Valley College. PCC got two runs in the top of the first, four in the sixth and five in the ninth inning. With the Lancers leading 4-3, Patrick Garcia […]
Baseball: CIF-SS Preseason Baseball Poll Division 1 1 JSerra Catholic 2 Huntington Beach 3 Orange Lutheran 4 Harvard-Westlake 5 Notre Dame/SO 6 Villa Park 7 Etiwanda 8T Cypress 8T Santa Margarita 10 Corona Others: Los Alamitos, Foothill, La Mirada, Sierra Canyon Division 2 1 Gahr 2 Vista Murrieta 3 South Hills 4 Norco 5 Aquinas […]
Baseball: Congrats to a pair of South Hills baseball players for signing their letters of intent on Wednesday. Both Sterling Patick and Marcos Rosales are signed, sealed and delivered for 2024. Sterling Patick, one of the area’s best pitchers, is going to have fun at the beach, and will play at UC Santa Barbara. In […]
College Baseball: By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor The 2022 South Coast Conference co-champions from Mt. SAC had yet another solid season on the field, as well as getting their athletes to the next level. John Knott’s crew claimed the SCC championship with Long Beach City College, and the Mounties are sending 11 players from the […]
Pictured L-R: Ryan Camacho & Dandre Carter All-BOTW as chosen by the league’s administrators Baseball: The Ventura County Pirates claimed the 2022 Best of the West League championship after defeating the Inland Valley Pirates in the title-round. VCP defeated IVP, 6-4, on July 29th to take a 1-0 lead in a best of three series. […]
Photo by Michael Watkins Baseball: There is only one thing PCC coach Pat McGee likes more than winning. And that’s getting his student-athletes to the next level when their days at Pasadena City College are through. In 2022, the Lancers won 28 games, which was their highest total since the 1960’s and they did so […]
A huge thanks to Josh Thompson for these photos Baseball: It’s not often that a championship game lives up to its billing. But on Sunday evening, and with thanks to both the Field Rats and the Arroyo Seco Royals, the Sunset League championship was a drama-filled instant classic. The Royals scored once in the top […]
Baseball: The Arroyo Seco Royals held a one-run lead and were 12 outs away from a Sunset League championship in the second game of a best-of-three series with the Field Rats. But the visitors got six runs in the top of the sixth inning and three more in the eighth to defeat the Royals, 11-6, […]
Baseball: By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor The Ventura County Pirates earned the Best of the West League championship on Friday night at Cal Poly Pomona. VCP defeated the Inland Valley Pirates, 6-4, in the first game of a best-of-three series. After the final out in the top of the ninth inning, IVP manager Charlie Reynoso […]
Baseball: The Arroyo Seco Royals are just one win away from a Sunset League championship. The Royals got a great effort on the mound from Kyle Noell and Tyler Mitchell in a 5-2 victory over the Field Rats. With the game tied at 1-1 in the top of the ninth, the ASR scored four runs […]
Baseball: The Best of the West League began Thursday’s play with four programs hoping to earn a spot in the best-of-three championship series. The So Cal Shepherds eliminated the Arroyo Seco Sentinels, 5-3, in the morning game, and the top-seeded Ventura County Pirates claimed a 5-2 victory over the No. 2 seeded Inland Valley Pirates. […]
Baseball: The top-seeded Orange County Pirates lived up to their billing on Wednesday. The Pirates cruised to an 11-4 victory over the Arroyo Seco Royals in the Sunset League playoffs at Cypress College. Seth Bougher went six innings to earn the win, allowing four runs (three earned) on nine hits. Bougher didn’t give up a […]
Baseball: The So Cal Shepherds held the top-seeded Ventura County Pirates scoreless as the game headed to the bottom of the fifth inning in Wednesday’s Best of the West League first-round playoff game. The Pirates, however, got one in the fifth and three more in the sixth to defeat the Shepherds, 4-1, at Cal Poly […]
Baseball: The Inland Valley Pirates got seven scoreless innings from Zac Czerniawski in Wednesday’s 6-2 victory over the Arroyo Seco Sentinels in the first round of the Best of the West League playoffs. Czerniawski allowed four hits, walked two and fanned six Sentinels’ batters. Antonio Andrade walked, singled and had both Seco RBIs. Jason Givens […]
Note: There aren’t complete pitching stats available for this story Baseball: Trailing by one run in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Quakes Baseball Academy scored four in the seventh and one in the eighth to defeat the Orange County Legends, 8-5, in Tuesday’s Sunset League playoff opener. Kevin Fedoruk singled, doubled and drove […]
Baseball: The So Cal Shepherds scored nine runs in final two innings to defeat the East Los Angeles Dodgers, 13-10, in a Best of the West League wild card game. Noe Novella was saddled with the loss, allowing seven runs (six earned) on five hits. Novella went three innings, issuing three walks and striking out […]
Baseball: The Arroyo Seco Royals cruised to a 12-4 victory over the Ventura County Bucs in the first round of the Sunset League playoffs. ASR scored in each of the first five innings on Tuesday, and took a 10-1 lead. Josh VerKuilen got the win, allowing one run on two hits over his five-inning outing. […]
