The Ayala High School baseball program has had a lot of success lately. In fact, they haven’t lost a game since May 7th of 2019. When COVID-19 ended the 2020 season, the Bulldogs were 9-0, and until this past Saturday, they hadn’t taken the field since. And Ayala picked up right where they left off. […]
They’re not in the same league anymore. But South Hills and Charter Oak never fail to make the other program work diligently for each win. For the last few years, the Chargers and Huskies duked it out for the Hacienda League championship. And while Charter Oak has moved on to the Valle Vista League in […]
Monrovia’s Coleman Mitchell and Nathan Thompson began their senior season with a bang. Mitchell did his part on the mound and Thompson with a bat, as the Wildcats cruised to a 9-2 victory at Village Christian on Saturday. Mitchell went five scoreless innings, allowing just three hits to pick up the win. He didn’t walk […]
Rancho Cucamonga erupted for 11 runs in the fourth and fifth innings combined and went on to defeat Nogales, 13-6, on Saturday. Jacob Ayala was saddled with the loss for the Nobles. Ayala surrendered seven runs and six hits over his 2 2/3 innings of work. He walked three and fanned three RCHS batters. Six […]
Less than 24 hours after rallying late to defeat San Dimas, Etiwanda jumped on Northview early and often. The Eagles claimed a 12-0, mercy-rule victory in five innings. Three pitchers combined on a 1-hit shutout and Etiwanda pounded Northview for 13 hits. In fact, eight separate Eagles had at least one hit, and four had […]
Pictured L-R: Ethan Galindo & Dean Curley Northview opened the 2021 baseball season by getting a solid effort on the mound from its ace, and a big day at the plate from a Vikings’ sophomore. Northview got four runs in the second inning and cruised to an 8-4 victory over Walnut. Ethan Galindo, one of […]
Apparently the Damien bats weren’t rusty, despite not having played in over a year. The Spartans pounded Claremont pitching for 17 hits in Friday’s 14-3 victory. Gavin Eddy got the loss after allowing nine runs on eight hits over his 3 1/3 innings of work. He walked two and fanned three Spartans’ batters. The first […]
Marshall Fundamental waited almost a year to get back on the baseball field. And while no parents or fans were allowed, this ascending program didn’t skip a beat from the time off. The Eagles rode the strong right arm of Travis Delgado and cruised to a 12-1 victory over Providence. Evan Jaquez picked up the […]
Etiwanda got off to a slow start in the 2021 season opener at San Dimas. The Eagles trailed 4-0, but they rallied for four runs in the fourth and two more in the sixth to outlast the Saints, 6-5, on Friday afternoon. Abraham Zapata played the hero with a two-run shot in the top of […]
College Baseball: Ryan Humphreys, the 2019 Northview High School ace, is off to a great start to his sophomore season. The Westmont College lefty closed out a four-game sweep of San Diego Christian over the weekend. Humphreys allowed just one run over the seven-inning, 10-1 victory. He surrendered just one hit, walked five and fanned […]
By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor If there was ever a kid that gave everything he had from the moment he woke up in the morning to the second his head hit the pillow at night, it’s Charter Oak senior Chris Ceballos. Ceballos makes a diligent effort daily to better himself as a player, person and […]
By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor It’s been a challenging past 12 months for the entire world. COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on everyone’s physical and mental health, their jobs and finances, and in so many other ways. For local high school student-athletes, the pandemic upended almost the entire 2020 spring season, and so far there hasn’t […]
By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor There’s nothing more reassuring for a young baseball player than to see his father in the stands. And for nearly half a century, that’s exactly what South Hills baseball coach Darren Murphy got from his dad. It meant everything. Sadly, for the first time in his playing or coaching career, […]
Baseball: By Brian Reed-Baiotto With all the uncertainty in high school sports, let alone life during this pandemic, a Monrovia High School senior did something that even COVID-19 couldn’t stop. Nathan Thompson, one of the area’s premier hitters, committed to play baseball for Cal State San Bernardino in 2022. In 2018, Thompson played freshman ball, […]
Baseball: By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor Mikey Kane left quite a mark athletically at St. Francis. Kane contributed the last two years for the Golden Knights’ football program and he was a three-year starter in baseball. If you ask his teammates and coaches, though, Mikey Kane is a far better young man and student than […]
By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor As Charter Oak hosts Glendora today in a CIF-SS Division 2 wild-card game, the Chargers are as battle-tested as anyone. They finished one-game back of Hacienda League champion South Hills, after dropping a 2-1 contest last Thursday. All four of their league losses (South Hills twice, Walnut & West Covina […]
How sweet it must feel for the Arcadia baseball program. They waited eight long years to be able to call themselves champions of the Pacific League. And they dethroned Crescenta Valley on the Falcons home field in the process. Arcadia used a combo of Preston Howey and Dustin Allen on the mound and CV was […]
When Rio Hondo Prep took the field at UC Riverside on Saturday evening in the CIF-SS Division 6 title game, Pasadena area baseball programs had already gone 0-3 in championship games earlier in the day. Poly and La Canada were both shut out and Marshall was dominated in a 10-run defeat. RHP seemed to keep […]
By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor Even for the most talented of athletes, there is typically a slight learning curve or minor adjustments that one makes while transitioning from high school to college baseball. That hasn’t been the case for PCC freshman Gabriel Arellano. The Lancers’ center fielder leads the entire state of California with 42 […]
By Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor Just after the 2017 football season had ended, more than 15 players from skilled positions left La Salle for what they believed were greener pastures. And each had their own reason for the departure. On that list, quarterback CJ Montes (Long Beach Poly) and receiver Justin Lockhart (Serra) were probably […]
