Diamond Notes

April 20, 2010

On Monday, Tucson Sahuaro defeated Catalina Foothills 11 – 2. Senior Jake Cole pitched a complete game, striking out 10 and giving up 7 hits. With Sahuaro leading 7 – 0, Foothills scored their only 2 runs of the game in the top of the 5th inning when Junior 3B Reid Hunter hit a single with 1 out. Next up was Junior LF Preston Jamison who hit a 2 run HR to right field. Offensively, the Cougars were led by Cole who went 3 – 4 with a 2 run HR and a 2 rbi double and Sophomore Adam Borboa who went 2-3 with a 3 run HR and a sac-fly.

Catalina Foothills 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 – 2 7 2
Sahuaro 2 0 3 2 1 3 x – 11 12 0

CFHS:
Reid Hunter: 2-3, R
Preston Jamison: 1-3, HR, 2RBI,

SHS:
Jake Cole: 3-4, HR, 2B, 4RBI, 2R
Adam Borboa: 2-3, HR, 4RBI, 2R, SAC-FLY
Josh Weyker: 1-3, 2B, RBI, R

Carl Hayden visited Marcos de Niza on Monday, and the Padres won 10 - 0. Marcos had 3 pitchers combine for a 1 hitter. Jesse Brooks struck out 2 in 2 innings, Henry Sanchez 2 in 2, and Aaron Fuller 1 in 1.

The Padres scored 3 in the 1st on a Kyle Becerra walk, singles by Zach Schira and T.J. Garcia (RBI) and an RBI triple by Donavon Evashenko. In the 3rd MdN scored 2 as Kendall Konopka reached on an error, Garcia's RBI triple and Garrett Taggart's RBI single. 4 more came in the 4th as Becerra walked and scored on Schira's triple. Konopka followed with a triple, and scored on Garcia's SF. Evashenko doubled and scored on a Taggart single. After Fuller walked, Patrick Maloney knocked in Taggart with a single.

Notre Dame 4
McClintock 1

Notre Dame's Schaefer Whiteaker (2-0) picked up the win pitching 5 strong innings while scattering 5 hits and allowing only 1 run. Austin Edwards pitched 2 scoreless innings in relief allowing only an infield single. Brian Poupore led the Saints offense going 3-4 at the plate while Casey Scott and Israel Ramos added 2 hits a piece. Notre Dames record improves to 13-8 on the season. The Saints pitching depth is receiving the ultimate challenge as they are in the middle of a stretch of playing 9 games in 11 days.
McClintock's Willie Baldenko pitched 6 plus innings of solid baseball in this closely fought game.

April 18, 2010

Notre Dame 6

Sunrise Mtn 1

Notre Dame's Tayler Scott struck out 9 and pitched a complete game dominating from start to finish to give the Saints(12-8) a much needed victory. Tayler also helped his own cause going 2 for 4 at the plate.The Saints Robert Mahon contributed 3RBI's with a sacrifice fly and single. Joey Greco,Joe Luvisi and Brian Poupore also each contributed a single to the Saints offense.

Tyler Crawford pitched well but absorbed the loss for the Mustangs. Tyler also led the Sunrise Mountain offense with a 3 for 3 performance at the plate. Grady Oulton also contributed 2 singles on the night for Sunrise.

Brophy 15 Salpointe 1

Coming from a loss versus the Chandler Wolves the night before, the Broncos invaded Gleason Field and handed the Lancers their worst loss of the season. After Salpointe drew first blood in the bottom of the 1^st, it was all Brophy the rest of the game.

Senior Dan Slania started on the mound for the Lancers for the 2^nd time this week and faced a very heavy L handed line-up this day. After a 1-2-3 inning at the top of the 1^st, this turned out to be not his day as the Bronco batters hit the ball hard and resulted in his shortest outing this year. He left after 3.2 innings with Brophy ahead 9-0.

Junior Isias Ortega came in relief and managed to slow the damage until the Broncos exploded for another 5 runs in the top of the 6^th .

Junior Sean Maxon with his varying arm angle delivery kept the Lancer bats in check allowing only 2 hits in 6 innings and earning the win. The only run he allowed was a 6-3 RBI by Marc Gavre bringing in Harrison Graham in the bottom of the 1^st.

Top Offensive Performers:

Senior Joe Maggi -3/3, BB, 4R

Sophomore Chris Beal – 4/5, 2b(3),R

Senior Kevin Kennedy – 3/4 , 2b(2), 2R

Sophomore David Graybill – 3/4, 2b, HR(2), 6RBIS,3R.

April 17, 2010

Tanner Hawk hit a two-run,, pinch-hit homer in the top of the ninth inning to give Mesquite an 11-9 win over Mountain View at Mountain View.
Jason Gonzales was 3-for-4 with four RBIs, including a home run. Zach Davies also homered for Mesquite.
Ben Thomas drove in four runs for Mountain VIew, three on a home run in the third inning. Andy Wooton and Beau Stapley added two RBI each for Mountain View. Mountain View rallied from 3-0, 7-3 and 9-6 deficits to force extra innings.

Pinnacle 14 North Canyon 4

Jake Peevyhouse (solo HR) and Mike Vaughn (3 run HR) hit first inning home runs to spark Pinnacle to 5 inning run rule of North Canyon. Jake Winters pitched another solid game to run his record to 7-0. Alex Real also hit his 5th homer of the year. Dom Portacarrero was 2/3 for the rattlers Kevin Baumgartner took the loss for North Canyon

Boulder Creek beat Deer Valley 11 to 5 on Wednesday in a region game. Bryce Eisenbart had a 2 run double in the 2nd when Boulder Creek scored 5 runs. Austin Truillo added a two run homerun later in the game for Boulder Creek. Deer Valley scored in the first after a double by Darian Ramage and a rbi single by Kyle Herrington. Mike Cowan hit a homerun for Deer Valley.

Casa Grande defeated Marcos de Niza at Casa Grande in a Pitcher’s duel on Friday evening. Quinn Chavez (Cougars) & T.J. Garcia (Padres) locked up in a 9 inning battle, both going the distance. Chavez was the winner with giving up 4 runs on 8 hits, 2 BBs and 7 Ks. Garcia gave up 5 runs (3 earned) on 12 hits, 2 BBs, 1HBP, and 4Ks.

MdN opened the game with a run in the first on a Nick Fatica single and steal, and a Zach Schira RBI double. In the 5^th, the Cougars tied up the score on a single by Miquel Rodriquez and an RBI double by Danny Vicari. In the 6^th, Casa Grande took the lead as Chavez reached on an error (and was caught stealing 3^rd) , Dom Joaquin walked, and Zach Gutierrez singled, scoring Joaquin.

The Padres came back in the 7^th on a Double by Garcia, and a RBI single by Garrett Taggart. After a scoreless 8^th, Kendall Konopka led off the Padre 9^th with his 6^th HR of the season. Donavon Evashenko singled (as was cut down stealing), Taggart walked and moved to 2^nd on a wild pitch and scored on a single by Jesse Brooks. The Cougars came up in the 9^th trailing by 2 when Rodriquez and J.R. Elliot singled and both scored on a single by Tucker Esmay, who in turn scored when Chavez singled.

Highlights:

Casa Grande:

J.R. Elliot: 3 for 4 with a walk 1 run

Danny Vicari: Double

Tucker Esmay: single, 2 RBI, 1 run

Dom Joaquin: Double and BB, 1 run

Zach Gutierrez: 2 for 4 with a double

Miquel Rodriquez: 3 for 4 with 1 run

Marcos de Niza:

Zach Schira: Double, RBI

Kendall Konopka: 2 for 4, HR

T.J. Garcia: Double, 1 run

Trey Lang's bases loaded fly ball in the bottom of the 7th left Perry standing on the field as Skyline defeated the Pumas 4-3. Lang started on the mound for the Coyotes and was solid, leaving with a 3-0 lead. In the top of the sixth, with 2 outs and 2 on, Perry's David Pederson cranked a 2 run blast to left center to knot the game at 3. Skyline would win it in the 7th. Pederson went the distance for Perry on the bump.

David Pederson ties it in the 6th (L) but Trey Lang wins it in the 7th

Mountain Pointe 6 Westwood 1

Mountain Pointe Junior Jr. Zepeda took the mound against Westwood's Tanner Davis. Jr. got the win pitching a complete game only giving up one run on 4 hits, 9 K's, 1 BB and 1 HB. The MP Pride struck first when Josh Alexander got an RBI single bringing in Justin Tibbitt who had also singled. In the 2nd Westwood's Brandon Thomen went deep with a solo shot giving them their only run of the game. Pointe would answer in the second when soph. Sam Kingery got an RBI single. In the 3rd Josh Alexander sent a rocket over the wall to give MP another one. In the 5th Alexander went deep with a solo shot over the opposite field fence for his second homerun of the game. In the 6th the Pride got two more when Sam Kingery got his second RBI of the game by knocking in Joey Rocha who had singled, JT Moreno also scored on an error after reaching on a fielders choice.

MP Hitters
Josh Alexander, 3 for 3, 2 HR's, 3 RBI's
Sam Kingery, 2 for 3, 2 RBI's

Westwood Hitters
Brandon Thomen, 1 for 3, HR

Lancers 10 Rangers 1

On a very cloudy day, The Rangers tried to put their best game against the Lancers. Senior Jacob Hunter started on the mound for the Salpointe vs Sophomore LHP Johnathon West for the Rangers.

Lancers scored the first run at the bottom of the 1^st when Harrison Graham brought home Joseph Serrano after Serrano had a leadoff 2b and stole 3b.

Rincon tied the game at the top of the 2^ndwhen Freshman Jose Luis Luzania brought home Senior Tom Shipley with a single RBI.

West kept the Lancers bats in check in the bottom half of their 2^nd frame but not for long as they exploded for 5 runs in the bottom of the 3^rd and after a pitching change , another 4 runs in the bottom of the 5^th.

TOP Offensive performers:
Joseph Serrano 3/3,3b(2),2b, 2R, RBI, HBP

Jacob Hunter 2/3 ,2b,R, HBP

Jack Hale 2/3, 2R

AJ Alexander 2/3, R, RBI

Dan Slania 2/4, 2b, R

Hunter Miller 1/2, RBI

TOP Defensive Performers;

WP Jacob Hunter (4-2) – 7IP, 4KS, 2BB, 1R, 3H.

*Jack Hale made a sliding catch at the R field line to end the game.

Talk about a tough week of baseball. This series had major implications on the Region Championship-Copper Canyon versus Sunrise Mountain in 4A-1 West Valley was a must see. Game 1 featured a well pitched game by (Jr.) Steven Kane who pitched a CG, 3 hit shutout on Tuesday to lead Sunrise Mountain to the 2-0 vicotry. (Jr.) Alex Gutierrez didnt have his best stuff although he managed to strand 9 SMHS baserunners. Gutierrez- 6ip, 2BB, 2 HBP, 8H, 2 unearned runs taking his 1st loss to drop to 6-1 on the year.
Final Score: SMHS 2 CCHS 0

Game 2 featured a different tone from the Aztecs. (Jr.) Aaron Bummer( 3ip, 2BB, 4Ks, 2H, 5R) started for SMHS as the Aztecs rolled out (Sr.) Rudy Gutierrez(7ip, 6BB, 5Ks, 4R). The Mustangs went scoreless to lead off the game. In the bottom of the 1st (sr.) Marcos Gomez was smoked in the head by Bummer to lead off the inning. Following a sac bunt, (Sr.) Ruben Hernandez came to the dish with 2 outs-and hit a huge shot to center to put the Aztecs up 2 runs. The Mustangs countered with 4 of their own on some timely hitting from their 9-hole. In came (Jr.) Tyler Crawford(3ip, 2Ks, 2H, 1R) to keep the game close Gutierrez managed to keep his composure on the bump as Copper Canyon capitalized on some late inning errors by SMHS to put Copper Canyon in the lead. (Jr.) Tony Suarez came up huge with a Sac Fly to give the Aztecs the cushion they needed as Gutierrez grew stronger as the game went on. For a team with nobody on anyones list- this team sure is playing some fun baseball. See you at the yard!
Final Score (19-4) Copper Canyon 6 (14-6) Sunrise Mountain 4

April 16, 2010

Arcadia    11

Maricopa   8

Arcadia (13-9, 4-4) won a wild East Sky Region game under the lights at Maricopa on Thursday. Titan Sophomore Mike Scannell delivered a clutch 2-run single in the top of the seventh to break an 8-8 tie and was then summoned to the bump with one down in the bottom of the inning, getting two infield pop outs to end the game. The Rams jumped out to an early lead on a first inning RBI double from Sr. Dimitri Esparza. Arcadia answered in the top of the second when Soph. Preston McLain doubled and scored on an RBI single from Soph. Brendan Satran.
The Titans went to work again in the third when Scannell roped an opposite field RBI double, Soph. Gary Cornish lifted an RBI sac fly to deep center, and Eddie Lyon and Satran added RBI singles. The Rams closed the gap in the fourth when a runner reached on a dropped third strike; Justin Warren followed with an RBI double and scored one batter later when the Titans dropped a fly ball in the outfield. Jr. K.J. Diehl added an RBI single.

Maricopa grabbed the lead in the fifth on a 2-run double from Sr. Charlie Baker, which chased Titan starter Andrew Naderer. However, the young Titans fought back in the sixth on RBI singles from Scannell, McLain, and Sr. Bucky O'Connell.
The key play came with two outs when the umpires ruled the Ram first baseman pulled his foot off the bag on McLain's sharp grounder to short. During the ensuing confusion, an alert Thomas Schellhardt raced home from third putting the Titans up 8-7. The Rams knotted the game in the bottom of the frame when Sr. Matt Clark touched Titan reliever Colton Sanchez for an RBI single after a runner reached on a second dropped fly ball when the Titan second baseman and right fielder got tangled up. Sanchez maintained his composure, striking out three, and setting the stage for Scannell's heroics in the seventh.

Arcadia leading hitters:

Mike Scannell      3-5, 2B, 4 RBI
Brendan Satran   3-5, 2B, 2 RBI
Tim Janssen         3-4, 2B (2), BB
Gary Cornish 3-4, RBI

Deer Valley beat Sandra Day O'Connor on Tuesday 6 to 3 in a region game at Deer Valley. Jacob Doyle threw a complete game
for DV. Deer Valley put up 4 runs in the 4th on a hit by RJ Rudder, sacrifice by Darian Ramage, followed by rbi singles by
Jordan Gonzalez and Jacob Doyle. Kyle Herrington added a 2 run homerun. Jordan Gonzalez had a 3 hit game and RJ Rudder
had 2 hits

Williams Field: 5

Notre Dame: 2

WP: Martino

LP: Napp

The Williams Field Black Hawks dealt the Notre Dame Saints their first region loss today in a 5-2 ballgame. Nic Martino was stellar on the mound for Williams Field, allowing 0 earned runs on only 4 hits and 1 walk through 6 1/3 innings pitched. Dylon Koch shut the door on the saints in the bottom of the 7th. The Saints had the tying run at the plate with 2 outs when Koch struck out Taylor Scott to end it. Jake McDavid had a key double in the 4th to put the Black Hawks in the lead where they would stay. Williams Field reached base safely 12 times on 9 hits. The Black Hawks extended their winning streak to 7 games, giving them a 9-1 region record and a shared spot with Notre Dame atop the East Sky Region.

Notre Dame's 4 hits came from the bats of Joe Luvisi, Brian Poupore, Robert Mahon, and Steve Berry.
Sam Napp (0-2,2 saves) pitched well for Notre Dame going 6 innings but took the tough luck loss as the Saints defense was less than sharp. Schaefer Whiteaker pitched a perfect 7th for Notre Dame.

Steven Berry dives back as Adam Frank applies the tag (L) Jake McDavid turning it

Lancers 17 Mountain View 1

This game was played at Tucson Electric Park in front of a nice crowd. It seemed like a mirror image of the last meeting. Mountain View blanked Salpointe with a 1-2-3 inning at the Top of the 1^st and then drew first blood with an RBI single by Senior Jakob Pierce bringing in Senior Zach Koprowski in the bottom of the 1^st.

It was all Lancers after that as they scored in every inning thereafter . They had 2, 3, 1, 3 and 8 runs from the Top of 2^nd to Top of 6^th innings. Game ended in run rule after 6 innnings. Lancers brought 12 batters to the plate in their last inning of offensive work.

TOP OFFENSIVE PERFORMERS

Jack Hale – 4/4, 2R, 4 RBI

Marc Gavre – 4/5, 3b, 3R, 2 RBI

Dan Slania – 2/3, 3b, 2b, 3R, 2BB, RBI

Jacob Hunter – 3/5, 2R, RBI

Harrison Graham – 2/4, 2R, 3 RBI

Ryan Penaflor – 2/4, 2b (2), 2R 3 RBI

Joseph Serrano – 2/5, R, RBI

TOP DEFENSIVE PERFORMERS

WP AJ Alexander (3-2) – 6IP, 5KS,0BB, 1ER, 8H.

Next games

4/16/2010 Fri vs Rincon Rangers 4PM @ Gleason Field

Probable Starter : Jacob Hunter (3-1)

4/17/2010 Sat vs Brophy Broncos 12PM @ Gleason Field

Probable Starter: Dan Slania (8-0)

SHS 0-0-0-0-0-0-0 = 0R / 6H / 2E

CSHS 0-0-0-0-2-0-0 = 2R / 5H / E

Saguaro was shut out for the first time this season in regional play. Jahnke was solid for Saguaro allowing one hit through 4 innings. The Falcons scored twice in the fifth inning on 3 hits & a walk, against Jahnke. Saguaro had several chances to score but were unable to convert, hitting into three double plays.

SHS:

Gibbons 2-3, 3B; Daugenbaugh 2-3, E

LP - Jahnke 5 2/3 IP; 2R, 2ER, 5H, 4K, BB

Stenheiser 1 1/3IP, 2K

CSHS:

Davis: 1-3, RBI; Dominick 1-3, RBI

WP - CG: Long 7IP, 6H, BB, 5K

Chris Akmon swinging it for Sagurao (L) Alec Daugenbaugh behind the dish

Mingus 15- Coconino 5

Mingus and Coconino square off in a Grand Canyon Region PP game. Coco opens the game with 2 runs in the top of the 1st. Mingus comes back with 5 in the 2nd. Coco gets one back in the 3rd for a 5-3 Mingus lead after 3. Mingus shuts down Coco in the 4th and scores 3 more in the 4th to go up 8-4 after 4. Coco scores a run in the top of the 5th. Mingus comes back with 4 in the 5th and 3 in the 6th to 10run Coconino in 6 innings. Final 15-5

Top performers:

Hunter Zwart goes 3-4 with 4 runs scored

Ron Morones goes 2-4 with 4 Rbi's and 2 runs scored

Shaun McCarty goes 2-4 with 2 rbi's and 2 runs scored

Todd Scalf goes 2-3 with 2 Rbi's and 1 run scored

Logan Stewart goes 2-3 with 2 Rbi's and 1 run scored

Carlos Abrigo goes 2-3 2-3 and 2 runs scored

Coconino

Michael Langston 2-4 and a run scored

Amos Combrink goes 1-2 2BB

Casy Sifling 2-3 and a run score

Winning pitcher for Mingus -Shaun Rojas gets his 5th 5-0 Goes 4 2/3 inn. 6H-2K 0BB

Matt Chavez came in for relief going 1 1/3 inn.

Losing pitcher for Coconino Aaron Parks now 2-6

Ridge Beats Chaparral 14-2
April 14, 2010

Cody Gray starting pitcher today for Ridge, took on Chaparral in one of his best outings of the season. In a shortened 5 inning game he only allowed 2 runs on 3 hits with 5 strikeouts facing only 19 batters.

The offense for Ridge carried over from yesterday as they put up 14 runs on 18 hits by the 4th inning. Key hits today came today from Tanner Murphy 2 doubles~4 RBI's, Cody Gray 3 doubles~1 RBI, Joe Brinkman 2 hits~2 RBI's, Austin Paschke 3 hits~2 RBI's, Brett Wilkey 3 hits~1 RBI, Ben Todd 1 hit~1 RBI, JR Phillips 1 hit~2 RBI's, PJ Valadez 2 hits and Daniel Will, Grant Scale each with a hit.

April 15, 2010

Kyle Jorgensen singled home the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift Corona del Sol to a 7-6 come-from-behind win over visiting Mountain View,

The Aztecs Trever Allen hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh to cap a three-run rally that tied the game at 5 and sent it to extra innings. Chris Carlson had three hits for Corona, including a two-run single and a single that started the winning rally in the eighth. Ben Thomas had two doubles and two RBIs for Mountain View

Trever Allen ties it in the 7th (L) Brett Spradling earned the win in relief for CDS

PERRY 13 runs, 13 hits, 4 errors

ST. MARY'S 4 runs, 5 hits, 1 error

WP: Jaren Drummond, 5 Inn, 3 hits, 4 BB's, 7 K's, 2 ER's

LP: Jacob Fimbres

On Wednesday night under the lights, the Knights of St. Mary hosted the Perry Pumas at Phoenix College. The Pumas put together their best all around game of the year in spite of their 4 errors. A total team effort produced 13 hits, 6 of which were extra base hits. The Pumas' patience also garnered them 10 base on balls. There were several nice defensive plays by the Pumas and pitchers Jaren Drummond and David Pedersen combined on a 5 hitter.

Perry jumped out in front in the first. David Walker led off with a free pass. Daniel DiGangi followed with a single. One out later, Connor Jones singled up the middle to drive both of them in for a 2-0 lead. St. Mary's responded in the bottom half of the 1st. Torin Sadow drew a walk. Lukas Treffers doubled off the 3rd base bag before Ryan Santana singled and an error brought in the first 2 runs to tie it. Another walk and a couple FC's made it 4-2 St Mary's after one. The Pumas regained the lead in the 3rd. DiGangi led off with a walk. JT Jobusch drove him in with a double. Jones got hit by a pitch and 2 outs later, Alex Burridge drove them both in with a single to make it 5-4 Perry. Drummond settled down after the 1st, only giving up 1 more hit over the next four innings while striking out 7 Knights. Perry tacked on three more in the 4th inning. Wil Schommer and Walker both got on with walks. Two outs later, Jones laced a run scoring triple before Colin Braithwaite brought him in with a single to make it 8-4. In the bottom of the fourth, Knights nine hole hitter Adam Alcocer drove one to deep left field where Perry left fielder Jobusch made an all out over the shoulder grab to rob Alcocer. Perry 1st sacker David Pedersen followed that up with a nifty scoop to end the inning. In the 6th, Perry sent all nine batters to the plate scoring three to make it 11-4. Jones doubled, Braithwaite walked, Scot Taggart hit a run scoring double, Burridge singled,Pedersen walked, and Schommer had an RBI FC. Pedersen relieved Drummond in the bottom of the sixth getting 3 outs around a couple infield hits. In the top of the 7th, Jobusch led off with a walk. Jones followed with a single and 2 outs later, Burridge tripled to the right field corner bringing both of the them in. The Pumas turned a nice 4-6-3 double play to end the game and improve their record to 13-11.

Batting Leaders:

Perry: Connor Jones, 4-4, 2B, 3B, HBP, 4 R, 3 RBI's

Alex Burridge, 3-5, 3B, 4 RBI's

Scot Taggart, 2-4, 2B, RBI

JT Jobusch, 2B, BB, 2 R, RBI

David Pedersen, 1-3, 2B, 2 BB's

St Mary's: Lukas Treffers, 1-3, 2B, BB, RBI

Torin Sadow, 1-2, BB, SB

Nicholas Maldonado, 1-2, BB

Notre Dame 14

Coronado 3

Notre Dame's starting pitcher Jon Cohn shook off a first inning 2 run homer by Coronado's Tony Smith and went the distance in this run rule shortened 5 inning game. Cohn was masterful on the mound throwing a 4 hitter and improving his record to 3-2 on the year. There were plenty of fireworks from the Notre Dame bats including a grand slam homer by Tayler Scott which gave him 6 RBI's on the day and 9 in the last 2 games. Casey Scott and Greg Hopkins also had big days at the plate each collecting 3 hits on the day. In addition,Bryce Sadosky and Israel Ramos contributed 2 hits and 2 RBI's a piece for the Saints who improved to 11-7 on the year.

Boulder Creek beat Deer Valley 11-5 behind the pitching of Chase Wagner and Cody Jones. Austin Trujillo was 3-5 with 5 RBI's including his 10th Home Run of the season. Also, Bryce Eisenbart was 1-3 with a 2B and 3 RBI's. Johnny Pawling had 2 hits and Jones also added an RBI 2B.

Westwood 4 Pinnacle 2

Pinnacle dropped a non region contest to Westwood. The Warriors played great defense and got effective pitching to hand the Pioneers the surprising loss on Wednesday.

Gilbert avenged an earlier loss to Dobson, run ruling the Mustangs. Drew Stankiewicz, Tyler Kamtz and Colton Thompson all had 3 hit games.. Stanky dropped a bomb as well. Hunter Herdt got the win.

Tyler Kamtz bounces off second for Gilbert

Zach Davies tossed a 3 hit shutout as Mesquite blanked Highland 7-0. Jake Waldren, Nick Rosales, Rocky HIgh and Dabies all had multi hit games. Garrett Jeffries went deep for the 'cats.

Marcos de Niza met Mesa High School at MdN on Wednesday and came away with their 5th consecutive win, 14 - 4. Senior Jesse Brooks threw 4 scoreless innings; giving up 3 hits, 1 BB, 1HBP and 3Ks. He was aided by 2 double plays by the Padre defense.

The Padres scored in all 4 innings. In the bottom of the 1st, Nick Fatica started the game with a single and stole second. Zach Schira drove in Fatica with a double and was in turn driven in by a Kendall Konopka single. In the 2nd, de Niza plated 7. Garrett Taggart led off with a single, Bias Alvarez walked, a Patrick Maloney RBI single, a Fatica 2 run single, an RBI single by Schira, Konopka reached on an error, and TJ Garcia and Donavon Evashenko capped the inning with RBI doubles and a Taggart single. In the 3rd, Fatica led off with a single, Schira singled, Konopka plated both with a triple and scored on a Garcia SF. In the 4th, Alvarez and Cory Fields singled and Kyle Becerra and Schira reached on errors resulting in 2 runs.

The Jackrabbits scored 4 in the 5th. Singles by Brandon Eyring, Eric Lenz, Rigo Lugard, and Mike Horton surrounded a walk by Alfonso Palacio to get the runs.

Highlights:
Mesa Jackrabbits:
Brandon Eyring: 2 for 2

Marcos de Niza Padres:

Nick Fatica: 3 for 3 & 2 RBIs, 3 runs
Zach Schira: 3 for 4, double, 2 RBIs, 3 runs
Kendall Konopka: 2 for 4, triple, 3 RBIs, 2 runs
T.J. Garcia: Double, SF, 2 RBIs
Donavon Evashenko: Double, RBI

April 14, 2010

North Canyon 5

Horizon 2

The North Canyon Rattlers bounced back from last Friday’s disappointing 4-0 loss to Horizon with a 5-2 win over the Huskies on Tuesday at North Canyon. Junior Coley Bruns was in control all afternoon, giving up just 3 hits, 2 ER, 3 BB and 6 Ks in 6 innings of work. For the Rattlers, Tony Spiesman came up big, going 2 for 3 with 2 RBI. Jason Walker also contributed 2 RBIs.

For Horizon, John Rubino was 2 for 3 with an RBI and Joey Danner hit a solo shot.

After pounding out 24 runs on Friday night, it took Queen Creek extra inning to get the metal warm on Tuesday night at a chilly Grand Canyon University. The Bulldogs locked horns with the Cougars of Raymond Kellis and saw a classic pitching battle unfold. Matt Schmit (5-2) was outstanding going 7 and 2/3 inning before having to be relieved due to his pitch count. While on the bump, Matt surrendered only 3 hits and 3 walks and struck out 8 Cougar hitters. Stens of Kellis, was equally impressive through 7, until the Dogs struck for 3 in the top of the 8th to pull of the non-region contest. The 4-1 contest saw little offense, but Julian Sandoval (3-4, 2 Runs) and Adam Brzeczek (2-4, 2 2B, 3 RBI) did what they could to help get runs on the board. Brandon Jackson closed the game out to pick up his lone save of the year

Hayden Rogers pitched six shutout innings, allowing three hits and striking out five to lead Mountain View to a 9-0 win over Dobson on Tuesday afternoon at Mountain View.

Rogers also had two hits and drove in a run. The Toros Nick Morales led the offense going 4-for-4 with a double and triple and four RBIs. Andy Wooton had two hits and two RBI and teammates Korbin Walton and Willie Ethington also had two hits apiece.

Chaparral Cruises Past St. Mary’s, 15-2

Ten different players combined for 15 hits Tuesday to lead Chaparral to a 15-2 victory over St. Mary’s in a Desert Sky Region game at Chaparral. The Firebirds, who play at home today against non-region opponent Mountain Ridge, improved to 15-6 overall and 3-1 in the region.

The game was decided in the second inning when Chaparral sent 18 hitters to the plate. By the time it was over, the Firebirds had scored 14 runs on 10 hits and two St. Mary’s errors to take a 15-0 lead. Aaron Levy delivered a pair of two-run doubles to lead the charge.

Joey Bielek and Blake Spiekerman each had three hits for the Firebirds. Will Abram, Peter Lehnstrom and Levy pitched for Chaparral and limited the Knights to four hits. Ryan Santana, back from a foot injury, doubled to center to score Ricky Bustamonte in the fourth inning. Abram picked up the victory.

Aaron Levy on the hill (L) Will Dyer pops up as Nick Martinez completes the pivot

CASA GRANDE 7 runs, 6 hits, 3 errors

PERRY 8 runs, 14 hits, 2 errors

WP: Tyler Lynch

LP: Quinn Chavez

On Tuesday, the Casa Grande Cougars traveled up to Gilbert to take on the Perry Pumas. CG started Ralph Belloc while Perry countered with Max Kraust. CG opened the scoring in the 1st. JR Elliott started with a single. One out later, Tucker Esmay walked. Elliot and Esmay pulled off a double steal before Sergio Canales drove in Elliott with a sac fly. In the bottom half of the 1st after 2 outs, Perry loaded the bases but couldn't score. The Pumas broke through in the 2nd against Belloc. Alex Burridge got things going with a double to the left center gap. With 2 outs, David Walker singled in courtesy runner Daniel DiGangi. After Walker stole second, Phil Raetz singled Walker in to put the Pumas ahead. Walks to JT Jobusch and Connor Jones loaded the bases but the Pumas couldn't push any more runs across in the 2nd inning. In the 3rd, after a Scott Taggart single, Burridge again doubled scoring Taggart. Perry stretched their lead in the 4th against CG reliever Albert Ortega. Raetz reached on an error, Jobusch singled and Jones walked to load the bases again. This time, Perry was able to score 2 on a fielder's choice groundout by Tanner Gunkel. All of the runners showed great hustle on the FC causing a CG error. With a 5-1 lead, Kraust had only given up 1 hit thru 4 innings. He tired in the 5th and was relieved by Jobusch. Esmay greeted Jobusch with a 2 run double over the right fielder's head to make it 5-4. It remained that way till the bottom of the 6th. Walker led off with a single. Two outs later, Jones singled. A wild pitch moved Jones over to 2nd. Gunkel then beat out an infield hit. On the play, Walker and Jones both scored to make it 7-4. In the top of the 7th, CG showed its grit. Danny Vicari and Esmay led off the inning with walks. Quinn Chavez followed with an RBI single and Dom Joaquin drove in another with a groundout to make it 7-6. Down to their last out and with 2 strikes, Jose Perales singled to score Chavez and tie the game. Perry got the the 1st 2 batters on in the 7th but couldn't score sending the game to extra innings. Tyler Lynch relieved Jobusch and shut CG down in the top of the 8th. In the bottom half with Chavez pitching for CG, Jones led off with another walk. Gunkel singled to left and Colin Braithwaite was hit by a pitch to load the bases with no outs. Taggart singled up the middle scoring Jones with the game winner. Perry improves to 12-11 while CG falls to 11-11.

Batting Leaders:

Casa Grande: Tucker Esmay, 1-3, 2B, 2 BB's, SB, 2 RBI's

Danny Vicari, 1-3, 2B, 2 BB's, 2 R, RBI

Perry: Alex Burridge, 3-4, 2 2B's, RBI

Connor Jones, 2-2, 3 BB's, 2 R

Tanner Gunkel, 2-4, 3 RBI's

David Walker, 2-5, SB, RBI

Scot Taggart, 2-5, Game Winning RBI

Connor Jones gettin' some love after scoring the game winner

Salpointe 9 Tucson 3

With the resumption of league play, it was the battle of the Aces as Lancers visited Badgers at Cherry Field in a nice evening game. Scott Laughlin squared off versus Dan Slania in this game. The game was close until the Lancers broke the game open in the top of the 5^th when the Lancers sent 12 batters to the plate chasing out Laughlin after 4 2/3 innings.

SCORING PLAYS

TOP of 1^st

Harrison Graham – BB

Jacob Hunter – 1b RBI scoring Graham.

Lancers1- Badgers0

Top of 3rd

Joseph Serrano -2b

Harrison Graham – FC to pitcher who erased Serrano 1-6.

Jacob Hunter – E4

Marc Gavre – BB

Dan Slania – BB RBI scoring Graham.

Lancers 2- Badgers 0

Top of 5^th

Joseph Serrano – 1b, Harrison Graham – 2b, E8 ..scoring Serrano

Jacob Hunter – 2b, RBI scoring Graham, Marc Gavre – 1b, RBI scoring Hunter. PR Forrest Redd.

Jack Hale – BB, AJ Alexander – BB ..Forced out at 2^nd base. 6-4, Ryan Moore- FC, RBI bringing in Redd.

Ryan Penaflor – 1b, 2 RBI bringing in Hale and Moore. Joseph Serrano – BB

Harrison Graham – 1b, RBI bringing in Penaflor.

Lancers 9 – Badgers 0

Bottom of 5^th.. Badgers started to rally

Steven Elias – 1b, Armando Martinez – 2b , Jose Montano – SAC FLY (F8) RBI bringing in Elias.

Alexis Batista – 1b RBI bringing in Martinez ,Bryant Munoz – 2b RBI bringing in Batista.

Lancers 9 - Badgers 3

Score remained the same as defense clamped down and Slania got his 2^nd wind. This was highlighted by a 5UA -–> 5-3 DP to end the bottom of the 6^th with runners at 1^st and 2^nd base.

WP – Dan Slania ( 9-0) 7IP, 9Ks, 0BB, 7H, 3R.

LP - Scott Laughlin 4 2/3 IP, 4KS, 6BB, 9R.

Relief (Tucson) – Reed Turner 2 1/3 IP, 4KS, 0BB, 0R.

Next game for Salpointe Lancers @ Mountain View Lions to be played at TEP 7PM 4/15/2010.

Steven Kane tossed a complete game 3 hit shutout with 9 Ks as Sunrise Mountain dropped Copper canyon 2-0. CC's Alex Gutierrez matched Kane pitch for pitch for most of the game. The 2 teams meet again on Thursday.

Marcos Gomez turns it with Drew Wolf bearing down (L) Steven Kane reacts after the final strikeout

Notre Dame 16

Tempe 12

Notre Dame survived a 3 hour marathon that was finally called by darkness after 6 innings. The Saints led Tempe 6-1 heading to the bottom of the 4th inning before Tempe exploded for 8 runs off of Saints starter Kevin Ryan and relievers Chris Watson and Will King giving Tempe the lead 9-6. Notre Dame then rallied for 10 runs after 2 were out in a crazy 5th inning that featured 8 walks and back to back 2 out pinch hit singles by Robert Mahon and David Wynne. Tempe tacked on a run in the 5th and 2 in the 6th before the game was stopped. 9 different Notre Dame players hit safely in the game. The win broke a 4 game losing streak and improved the Saints record to 10-7 on the year.

Arcadia earned a much needed East Sky region victory over the Higley Knights, 12-8, Tuesday at Arcadia. The starting pitchers, Jr. Thomas Schellhardt for Arcadia, and Jr. Mike Nitti for Higley, controlled the first two innings, although Schellhardt needed an unassisted double play from Soph. third baseman Preston McLain to get out of the first.

Higley jumped on top with two runs in the top of the third on RBI singles from Jr. Brandon Boggs and Sr. Tim Soushek, but Schellhardt struck out two to control the damage. The Titans answered in the bottom of the inning when Frosh. Max Schuman barely missed his first varsity dinger, lacing a triple off the top of the fence in right field. Schellhardt then plated Schuman with a sac fly.

Both pitchers bounced back in the fourth as each retired the side in order. Higley tacked on a run in the fifth on Soushek's second RBI single, but the Knights left the bases loaded as Schellhardt coaxed a ground ball out. In the bottom of the inning, TItan Soph. Andrew Naderer drew a leadoff walk but was cut down at home on an excellent throw from Boggs when he tried to score on Sr. Bucky O'Connell's single to center. Soph. Gary Cornish then drew a walk, and Schuman reached on an error to load the bases for Schellhardt who delivered an RBI single, tying the game at three. Titan Soph. Brendan Satran then stepped to the plate and launched a monster grand slam to left giving Arcadia a 7-3 lead.

The Titans added five more runs in the sixth. Naderer led off with a double and scored when Cornish singled to left. Schellhardt followed with a two-run bomb to left. Soph. Mike Scannell doubled, Satran reached on an infield single, and both were plated on Jr. Colton Sanchez's double to the gap in center. However, Higley refused to go quietly in the seventh touching Titan relievers Cornish and Sanchez for five runs, before Naderer entered and got two ground outs to end the game. Schellhardt earned the win going six innings, giving up six hits, and striking out seven.

Leading hitters for Arcadia:

Thomas Schellhardt 2-3, HR, 4 RBI, SAC, 2R

Brendan Satran 2-4, HR, 4 RBI, 2R

Andrew Naderer 1-1, 2B, 2 BB

Colton Sanchez 1-4, 2B, 2 RBI

Marcos de Niza traveled to Cesar Chavez for a game on Tuesday, where the Padres came away with a 12 – 3 victory. Garrett Taggart threw 5 solid innings; giving up 3 runs (2 earned) on 6 hits, 2 walks and 6 K’s. Noel Rodriquez took over in the 6^th, and gave up no runs on 1 hit with 2 K’s.

MdN got one run in the first on a double by Zach Schira and an RBI single by T.J. Garcia. In the 3^rd, the Padres tallied 6. Kendall Konopka led off with a single followed by RBI doubles by Kyle Becerra and Schira. Garcia reached on an error, and Daniel Rodriquez cleared the bases with a 2 run triple; followed by a 2 run HR by Cory Fields.

Chavez put up two in the home half of the 3^rd on singles by Anthony Garcia, Daniel Farmas, Sammy Lopez and Gabriel Rojas.

The Padres scored 4 more in the 4^th when Konopka walked, Becerra tripled, a Schira BB, a Garcia RBI single. Donavon Evashenko reached on a fielder’s choice and D. Rodriquez drove in a run on a sac fly.

Chavez got one in the 5^th on a single by Lopez who stole second, moved to 3^rd on a wild pitch and scored on a balk.

The scoring was concluded in the 6^th when de Niza got a double from Garcia, a walk to Evashenko and a run-scoring fielder’s choice by Bias Alvarez.

Highlights:

Cesar Chavez:

Sammy Lopez: 3 for 4 with a SB and RBI and run scored.

Marcos de Niza:

Patrick Maloney: Triple

Cory Fields: HR

Daniel Rodriquez: 2 for 3 with a triple, SF and 3 RBIs

T.J. Garcia: 3 for 4 with a double 2 RBIs and 3 runs scored

Zach Schira: 2 for 3 with 2 doubles, a walk 2 runs scored and 1 RBI

Kyle Becerra: 3 for 5 with a double, triple, RBI and 2 runs scored

Highland 12- Trevor Browne 6

Highland jumped out to a lead in the top of the first on a Gentry Kinsella double and a two out single by Matt Repp. They added six in the second when Westin Wiederhold led off with a single. Mike Maldonado's bunt attempt was popped up but cleared the pitcher for an infield single. Dillon Jones then singled to load the bases with no outs. Andrew Medina grounded out to score Wiederhold and Kinsella singled to score two. TB kicked a few balls to allow two more runs to score for a 6-0 Highland lead heading into the bottom of the second.

Things settled down until the bottom of the third, when starting pitcher Potts singled and stole second. Lead-off hitter M. Martinez homered to left to close the gap to 6-2. Highland got one in the 5th as both Potts and Cody Moffett were keeping things under control.

Potts tired in the top of the 7th when he passed the 110 pitch mark and Highland managed a 5 spot to bring the score to 12-2. Moffett went back out and started leaving the ball up and TB showed why they're so high in the power rankings with 5 hits and four runs. Moffett gathered himself and struck out the last two to end the game.

Moffett struck out 11, walked 3 and gave up 8 hits and 6 runs, but a W is a W. Potts didn't get any help in the loss.

Highland was led by Kinsella 2-5 w 3R and 3 RBI, Matt Repp 3-5 with an RBI, Mike Maldonado 2-3 with a BB & 2R, Dillon Jones 2-3 with 2R & RBI, Garrett Klingensmith 1-2 with 2 RBI.

For Trevor Browne, M. Martinez was 2-4 with a HR, 2 R and 2 RBI, Camacho had a double and 2 RBI and Potts was 2-3 with a double, 2R, and an RBI

Desert Ridge 8 Mountain Pointe 3

In what could possibly be the determining game for the Pima Region title the Mountain Pointe Pride took on the Desert Ridge Jaguars, Kevin Cron got the start for the Pride and went 5 innings while Scotty Hoffman took the hill for the Jaguars and got the win going 6 1/3 innings with 8 K's, 11 hits, 3 runs and a HB. MP started off the scoring in the 1st with a Tony Balderama RBI single who knocked in Jordan Kipper who had also singled. DR got 3 runs in the third off a Russell Vaughn 3RBI homer who knocked in Unroe and Wagner both of whom had singled. DR got 2 more in the 4th when Scotty Hoffman put one over the wall bringing in Austin Carr, who had reached on a single. The 5th found the Jaguars getting another homerun and two more runs when Taylor Kaczmarec went deep while Travis Flores was on off a walk. MP would answer in the 5th when Kevin Cron went deep with a solo shot. Ridge got another one in the 6th when Unroe reached on a walk and was knocked in by DW Warner. The Pride put up 1 run in the 7th when Josh Alexander bounced one off the right field fence for a triple and then scored on a wild pitch.

DR Hitters
Scotty Hoffman 2 for 3, HR, 2RBI
DW Warner 2 for 4, RBI
Russell Vaughn 1 for 4, HR, 3 RBI
Taylor Kaczmarec 1 for 3, HR, 2 RBI

MP Hitters
Josh Alexander 3 for 4, 3B
Joey Curletta 2 for 3
Kevin Cron 2 for 4, HR

In a non-televised game, PV outscored Washington 7-0 behind the strong pitching of Malcolm Purdy who threw a complete game 2 hitter striking out 10. It was close until PV plated 5 in the 5th. Omar Dominguez continued his hitterish attitude with 2 hits and a walk. Jose Leal added two hits. Washington defense didn't help a good outing by their starter Nixon who was baffling some PV batters the first two times through.

SHS 1-4-3-1-6 = 15R/ 17H, E

CSHS 3-0-0-0-0 = 3R /4H / 0E

Saguaro pounded out 17 hits in 5 innings in 1 15-3 win against Cactus Shadows. Eight hits came in the 5th inning including a Grand Slam Home Run for Brandon Demerest.

SHS: Gibbons 3-3, (3-run) HR, 3RBI, 3R, 2SB, BB; Chapman 4-4, 2RBI, 3R; Demerest 1-3, GS-HR, 4RBI, R, HBP.
WP-CG Salazar, 5IP, 3R, 2ER, 4H, 4K, BB, 2HB, E

CSHS:
Davis, 1-1, 2B, R, BB, SAC
LP - Nemgar 2 1/3 IP, 6H, 6R, 6ER, 2K, 2BB, HB,
Ford 3IP, 9R, 9ER, 11H, 3K, 2BB, HB

Austin Anderson dives back safely (L) Josh Chapman hackin' for the 'cats

Williams Field: 16- Seton: 7

Winning Pitcher: Frank

Losing Pitcher: Matta

WF Leading Hitters: McDavid 3-5, 2B, 2RBI; Wahlers 2-4, 3RBI

Seton Leading Hitters: Eddy 3-3, 3B, 2 RBI

Williams Field swept their 2 game series against Seton Catholic today, led by Adam Frank on the mound. The Black Hawks stayed aggresive at the plate, putting the ball in play safely for 12 hits, with 5 players chipping in multi hit ball games today. The Black Hawks are averaging just over 13 runs per game over their last 4 games, and improve their winning streak to 6 games. They will go on the road this Thursday to take on Notre Dame Prep.

April 13, 2010

Boulder Creek beat Deer Valley on Friday 11 to 8 at home with Bryce Eisenbart throwing a complete game for Boulder Creek. Eisenbart worked on the mound and at the plate getting 3 hits, including 2 doubles and a 3 run homerun. Deer Valley's Jacob Doyle had a 3 hit game and Kyle Herrington
had a 2 run homerun as Deer Valley was handed their first region loss.

Marcos de Niza met Chandler at MdN Monday afternoon with the Padres coming away with a 10 – 4 victory. Joey Vitale, a sophomore making his first appearance on the varsity, went 5 innings, giving up 2 runs on 5 hits, 0 BBs and 4 K’s.

The Padre’s opened the scoring with 4 runs in the 2^nd. Daniel Rodriquez reached on a K and wild pitch. Cory Fields singled and both scored on a triple by Patrick Maloney, who scored on a double by Kendall Konopka. Chandler got 2 in the 3^rd on a double by Logan Spears, a single by Kevin Carr and a 2 run double by Vincent Lujan. MdN got 6 in the bottom of the 3^rd on a triple by Donavon Evashenko, a walk to Fields, who stole 2^nd, a 2 run single by Konopka, a BB to Kyle Becerra, an RBI single by Zach Schira, an RBI single by T.J. Garcia and a 2-run double by Garrett Taggart. The Wolves got 2 in the top of the 7^th on a single by Erik Barriga, BBs to Malcolm Holland and MacKenzie Handel, a SF by Spears and a groundout by Carr.

Wolves Highlights:

Logan Spears: Double and SF

Kevin Carr: 2 singles

Vincent Lujan: 2-run Double

Mackenzie Handel: a slick diving catch in center

Padre Highlights:

Donavon Evashenko: Triple, run scored

T.J. Garcia: 2 for 4, RBI, run scored

Kendall Konopka: 3 for 4, double, 3 RBIs, 2 runs scored.

Patrick Maloney: Triple, 2 RBIs, run scored

Garrett Taggart: Double, RBI

Brandon Matthews (L) and Josh Taylor were impressive on the bump at Centennial

Centennial rallied late to defeat Ironwood Ridge 3-2 in 8 innings. Centennial's Josh Taylor and Ridge's Brandon Mathews locked horns in a pitcher's duel. IR struck early, taking a 1-0 lead in the first on a pair of base hits. After that, the two lefties settled in and cruised through the next six innings in record time. Centennial tied in in the bottom half of the 7th on an RBI single by freshman Spencer Bayless, scoring Taylor Beddoes. Ridge would retake the lead in the top of the 8th. In the bottom half, after Mathews registered two quick strikeouts, Austin Garday lined a base hit to keep the 'yotes alive. Michael Reed would follow, and with an 0-2 count Centennial's fastest player was hit by a Mathews offering. With the tying and winning runs on, Austin Arias also went down 0-2 in the count before lifting a base hit into right center that scored Garday and Reed with the winning runs.

Brandon Gomez grabs a foul pop up (L) while Cale Nicklin ranges up the middle for Centennial

April 12, 2010

Highland 7-Corona Del Sol 3

Nolan Whittlesey started Friday night's game much the way he started Wednesday night's game. The first batter reached on an error and then Kyle Jorgenson took him deep for a 2 run deficit. However, after those two hitters, everything changed. A ground out, singles by Greg Ryan & Andrew Nist were followed by a double play to end the inning.

Highland came back in the bottom of the first to get three of their own. Gentry Kinsella was hit by a pitch and Tyler Clancy singled. After a fly out, Matt Repp singled to drive in a run. Cody Moffett followed with an infield single. After a strike out, Mike Maldonado & Dillon Jones each singled home runs for a 3-2 Highland lead after 1.

Things settled down with both Whittlesey and Ryan Spradling finding their rhythms. In the bottom of the 4th, Highland put together a game winning rally when Andrew Medina led off with a double and stole third. Kinsella walked and after a strike out, Mike Greening doubled home both base runners. Matt Repp followed with an RBI infield single for a 6-2 Highland lead.

Highland squeezed another across in the bottom of the 5th on an error and run scoring double by Andrew Medina. Chris Gammon homered in the 6th to close out the scoring.

Whittlesey was the story for Highland, bouncing back from a bad outing on Wednesday to throw a complete game 7 hitter. Spradling took the loss for Corona.

Brophy jumped on Mesa early in the 1st when David Graybill hit a first inning grand slam to put the Broncos up. Sean Maxon pitched all 5 for the Broncos who won 15 to 4 over Mesa. Graybill added a 2-run shot in the 4th to seal the deal. Joe Maggi, Kasey Coffman, and Emilio Torrez all had Multi hit games as well.

Cottonwood 9

Notre Dame 4

At the National Classic in Anaheim California- April 8,2010 (Wood Bats)

The Saints dropped their 4th in a row in California and saw their record drop to 9-7 for the year. Sam Napp pitched 4 solid innings allowing 3 runs(2 earned) but Notre Dames bullpen gave up 6 runs in the final 2 innings ending any hopes for a comeback.

The Saints offense featured an RBI double by Joe Luvisi, a double by Israel Ramos, and singles by Bobby Kohnen,Joey Greco, and Greg Hopkins.

Joe Luvisi was named to the All-Tournament Team. He hit .455 for the week while driving in/scoring 6 of the Saints 9 runs.

April 10, 2010

Marcos de Niza defeated Perry High at MdN in a shoot out 16 – 9. T.J. Garcia went the distance for the Padres. The Pumas got to Garcia early, but he settled down and only gave up 1 hit after the 3^rd inning.

Perry got out of the gate fast in the 1^st with 4 runs. David Walker led off with a double to left, J.T. Jobush walked,and Walker scored on a SF by Connor Jones. Colin Braithwaite walked and scored along with Jobush on a Scott Taggart double. Taggart scored on a single by Wil Schommer. Perry scored in the 2^nd on a BB to Daniel DiGangi a single by Walker and a SF by Jobush. Marcos answered back in the 2^nd on a BB to Garrett Taggart, a single by T.J. Garcia a BB to Daniel Rodriquez and a Grand Slam by Patrick Maloney.

Perry answered back with 3 in the 3^rd on a double by Braithwaite, and RBI singles by Alex Burridge, DiGangi, and Walker. De Niza came right back with 3 in the 3^rx. Donavon Evashenko and Taggart each doubled to left, Garcia singled, scoring Taggart, who scored on a double by Maloney.

Perry tallied one in the 4^th on a Connor Jones HR to right. The Padres took the lead in the bottom of the frame on a BB to Kyle Becerra, a double by Zach Schira, a 2 RBI double by Kendall Konopka, and a 3 run HR by Garcia. In the 5^th, the Padres got going on doubles by Konopka, Taggart and Rodriquez. Marcos got their final run on a double by Nick Fatica, who scored on 2 wild pitches.

Highlights: Perry

David Walker: 3 for 3 with a walk and a double and an RBI

Connor Jones: HR

Colin Briathwaite: Double and a walk

Scott Taggart: Double and an RBI

Wil Schommer: Double and an RBI

Highlights: Marcos de Niza

Nick Fatica: 2 for 5 with a double

Zach Schira: Double and a walk

Kendall Konopka: 2 doubles, 2 RBIs and a BB

Donavon Evashenko: double

Garrett Taggart: 2 doubles a walk, RBI and 4 runs scored

T.J. Garcia: 3 for 4 with a HR and 4 RBIs and 3 runs scored

Daniel Rodriquez: Double, walk and RBI

Patrick Maloney: 3 for 4 with a double, HR and 5 RBIs

Williams Field: 11

Verrado: 7

Winning Pitcher: Martino

Losing Pitcher: Meadows

Verrado Leading Hitters: Knight 2-4, 2 2B; Mendoza 2-4, 3B

Williams Field Leading Hitters: Frank 2-3, GS HR, 4RBI; Wahlers 2-4 HR

Williams Field defeated Verrado today to move ahead in the powerpoints. Verrado started the day hot at the plate putting up 3 runs in 1st, but Williams Field erupted their 2nd time through the order, batting around and putting up 7 runs in the 3rd. The inning was capped with a grand slam home run by adam frank, followed by solo bomb to deep left center by Drew Wahlers. The back to back jacks ensured the win for Nic Martino, who found his stuff in the 2nd inning. The Vipers battled back in the 6th, putting up 4 runs, but fell short. Dylon Koch made his 2nd appearance on the mound of the season to close out the final 2 innings.

Mingus Vs Mohave (Doubleheader)

Game 1

Hunter Zwart gets his 3rd win in 4 tries by pitching 5 strong innings, giving up only 2 hits, 2BB, 1 run and striking out 6. Mingus wins game one 12-1

Leading hitters:

Hunter Zwart 2-4 2Rbi's,run scored and a SB

Shaun Mc Carty 2-4 1 Rbi and a Run scored

Logan Stewart 2-3 1 Rbi and 2 runs scored

Todd Scalf 2-3 2 Rbi's and a run scored

Carlos Abrigo 1-3 HR 2 Rbi's and 3 runs scored

WP- Hunter Zwart (3-1)

LP- Clayton Guthrie -( 1-5)

Game 2

Mingus battles against a strong outing by Mohave's Cody Rose. Rose pitched all 7 innings allowing 7Hits, 3 runs , 4k's and 2BB.

Mingus got another good performance from Hunter Zwart who went 2-3 with a triple. Also got help from Shaun Mc Carty, Logan Stewart, and an Rbi double from Carlos Abrigo. Mingus wins the second game 3-0 in a pitchers dual. Todd Scalf got his 3rd win out of 4 tries. Scalf went 7 innings giving up 4 hits and 0 BB

Leading Hitters:

Hunter Zwart 2-3 Triple ,Stolen Base and a run scored

Logan Stewart 1-2 Rbi and a run scored

Shaun Mc Carty 1-2

Matt Chavez 1-3

Todd Scalf WP (3-1)

Cody Rose for Mohave went 2-3 and getting in 1st loss is now (2-1)

Pinnacle 7 Desert Mountain 3

Jake Winters pitched 6 strong innings giving up 1 run on 4 hits for the win. Steve Casey and TC Mark led the Pinnacle attack both going 3 for 4 and hitting home runs.

TC Mark chases a wild one (L) while Alex Real plays a high hopper at short

Preston Hill Pitches Chaparral Past St. Mary’s

Senior Preston Hill turned in his sharpest performance of the season Friday at St. Mary’s in pitching Chaparral to a 5-1 victory over the Knights in a Desert Sky Region matchup. Hill scattered four hits and struck out three to record the complete-game victory. And he did it in remarkably efficient fashion. He threw only 82 pitches in his seven innings of work, with no more than 17 in any single inning.

With the victory, Chaparral improved to 14-6 overall and 2-1 in the region. The two teams meet again next Tuesday at Chaparral.

Hill’s command of his sharp-breaking curve and tailing fastball was enough to hold the Knights hitless through three innings and outdo St. Mary’s combination of junior starter Adam Alcocer and sophomore reliever Cole Glanzer. The two combined to limit Chaparral to only six hits. Glanzer retired the first seven Chaparral hitters he faced before Jordie Hein laced a single to center with two outs in the seventh inning.

The Firebirds took a 3-0 lead in the second inning that they would never relinquish. Konner Wade and Joey Bielek led off with consecutive walks. Joel Hayden then laid down a perfect bunt for a hit, enabling Wade to score after an errant throw. A.J Schillinger followed with a single to left to drive in Bielek, and Hayden scored on a wild pitch.

Chaparral extended the lead to 4-0 in the fourth inning when Colby Targun tripled to the corner in right field to drive in Schillinger, who had walked. The Firebirds completed their scoring in the fifth with a walk and stolen base by Hein and an RBI double to the gap in right-center by Wade.

St. Mary’s got on the board in the fifth inning when the speedy Torin Sadow beat out an infield single, stole second and scored on a wild pitch and passed ball. The Knights threatened in the fourth on consecutive hits by Ricky Bustamonte and Juan Carlos Jasso, but the Firebirds then turned one of their two double plays to bring the inning to a halt.

Bustamonte had two hits for the Knights. Six Chaparral players had one hit apiece.

April 9, 2010

From the National Classic

Lancers 3 ( 3R, 10H,1E) Aztecs 2 (2R, 4H,4E)

In a battle to win the right to fight for 5^th and 6^th place, the Salpointe Catholic Lancers engaged the Esperanza Aztecs in a 14 inning marathon classic. The game lasted approximately 3 hrs and 30 min with the sun about to set.

Junior AJ Alexander took the mound for the Lancers who played their 3^rd consecutive Home game.

SCORING PLAYS:

Bottom of the 2^nd

Dan Slania – 1b

Jack Hale – Reached based on E5T..both advancing one extra base.

Kevin Brice – 6-3 RBI Bringing in Slania.

Lancers 1 – Aztecs 0

Top of 3^rd

Aztecs tied the game with an UER to make it 1-1.

Bottom of 3^rd

Joseph Serrano – 1b

Jacob Hunter – 1b RBI bringing in Serrano.

Lancers 2 – Aztecs 1

Top of 5^th

Aztec Junior Ryan Cooper started the inning with a 2b and stole 3b.

Senior Connor Battaglia then bunt squeezed in Cooper to tie the game.

Lancers 2 – Aztecs 3.

Score remained the same for the next 8 ½ innings:

Pitching summary before the Bottom of the 14^th:

AJ Alexander – 8IP,4KS, 2BB, 3H, 2R

Dan Slania – 3IP, 2KS, 0BB, 0H, 0R

Isaias Ortega – 3IP, BB, 1H, 0R

Catcher : Marc Gavre CS-1 ( Great catching for the last 28 innings)

Bottom of to 14^th

With the sun about to set, Lancers started to bear down.

Isaias Ortega – 1b on a chopper down 3^rd base line.

Ryan Penaflor – Sac bunt to 1^st base side advancing Ortega.

Joseph Serrano – Intentional walk.

Harrison Graham – FC by 3b who threw to 2b but 2b dropped the ball while Serrano sliding hard.

Jacob Hunter – HBP (in head)… Scoring the Ortega.

FINAL SCORE 3-2. Lancers win marathon. WP Isaias Ortega!

Game 4 Bishop Amat 9 Salpointe 5

Lancers put a 2 spot at top of 1^st but Bishop Amat tied it at bot of 1^st and place a 6 spot at top of 2^nd that Lancers never recovered from. Salpointe rallied but eventually lost 9-5.

Later that night, Lancers Dan Slania and Jacob Hunter were named to All tournament team. Lancers ended the tournament with a record of 2-2 and 6^th place.

Desert Ridge 15
Casa Grande 8

Despite 5 errors and poor base running, the Jaguars defeated the Cougars 15-8. The Cougars down 15-3 in the bottom of the 7th, scored 5 times on
freshmen pitcher Riley Unroe.

Offensively for the Jags:

Austin Cain - 2 singles and a 3-run jack (5rbi's)

Kyle Raidy - double and 3-run jack (3rbi's)

Russell Vaughan - 2 singles and a double (2 rbi's)

DW Warner - 2-run double

Travis Flores - 2 singles

Taylor Kaczmarek - 2 singles

Jags next play @ Skyline Friday at 4pm.

The Sahuaro Cougars defeated Nogales on Thursday 4 – 0 , in a pitcher’s duel between Sahuaro’s Jake Cole and Juan Vega of Nogales. Sahuaro scored early in the bottom of the first when CJ Rodriguez led off the inning with a triple to left CF. Devon Carrillo reached base on an error, but got the RBI as Rodriquez scored. Cole gave up his first and only hit of the game in the top of the 6^th inning when Kevin Rosas laid down a bunt with 2 outs. The score remained 1 – 0, until the bottom of the 6^th inning when Sahuaro scored 3 runs on 5 hits. Vega had only allowed 5 hits in the first 5 innings.

WP – Jake Cole – 7 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 7 K, 0 BB, 1 HB

LP – Juan Vega – 6 IP, 4 R, 10 H, 6 K, 2 BB,

Offensive Standouts for the Cougars:

CF CJ Rodriguez – 2-3, 3B, 1R

C Hector Minjarez – 1-2, 2 RBI

SS Michael Rodriguez – 2-3, 1R

1B Nic Apodaca – 1-3, 2B, 1 RBI, 1R

RF Adam Borboa – 1-3, 1R

Chaparral Avenges Loss To Pinnacle

Two days after falling to a four-run last inning rally, Chaparral turned the tables by striking early and then benefitting from clutch relief pitching by Chris Pleiter to take a 9-6 victory over Pinnacle in an important Desert Sky Region matchup at Chaparral. Each team is now 1-1 in the region. Chaparral advanced to 13-6 overall, snapping a three-game losing streak, while Pinnacle fell to 15-4. The two teams entered the week ranked No. 1 and 2 in the state Class 5A-2 rankings.

Chaparral demonstrated its determination to bounce back from the disappointment lingering from Tuesday’s 10-9 defeat. The Firebirds erupted for eight hits and six runs in the second inning to take control, 6-0. Six of the hits came in succession, including three consecutive infield hits. The key blow, however, was a two-run double into the right-field corner by catcher A.J. Schillinger. Colby Targun followed with a two-run single to center. Those hits were sandwiched between RBI singles by Joel Hayden and Aaron Levy. The Firebirds scored again in the third on a double by Konner Wade and a sacrifice by Nick Diamond.

Pinnacle, however, was not about to let Chaparral off easy. Just like Tuesday, the Pioneers came on strong in the final inning and came oh-so-close to pulling this one out, too. Tailing by seven, the first six Pinnacle batters reached base with three walks and three doubles that produced four runs and left runners on first and second with none out.

After Justin Lindell led off with a walk and Rudy Bogojevich doubled, Chaparral coach Jerry Dawson took out starter pitcher Wade, who had been masterful by striking out five, scattering five hits and pitching out of a jam in the fourth inning. T.C. Mark followed with a two-run double to deep right-center. After a walk to Michael Vaughn, Alex Real delivered another two-run double, also to right-center. Ryan Plantier then walked, prompting Dawson to send for Pleiter.

The senior right-hander did not take long to restore order. He induced a ground ball double play and then coolly threw a full-count fastball for a strike out to end the game and leave his teammates both happy and relieved.

Chaparral benefitted from strong defense up the middle and at third base. James McDonald had five assists at shortstop, Blake Spiekerman made a key diving catch in center and Will Dyer gunned down two Pinnacle runners after hard shots to third.

Meanwhile, the Firebirds scored their final two runs as a result of a key Pinnacle error in the fifth.

Pinnacle scored its first two runs in the fourth inning on a line-drive home to left by Plantier, a double by Steve Casey, the Pinnacle starting pitcher, and an RBI single by David Real. But with two outs and runners on second and third, Wade struck out two in succession to end the threat.

McDonald paced the 12-hit Chaparral attack with three hits, including two of the infield variety. Wade had two hits, and Nick Diamond had two hits and two RBIs. For Pinnacle, both David Real and Bogojevich had two hits.

Greenway @ Paradise Valley on 4/8: Greenway 10 - PV 0
After tough week going 1-3 with losses to Liberty, TBird & Apollo over 6-days, Greenway got back in the groove with a 10-0, 6-inn run rule on Paradise Valley.
Zach Williams was sharp on the bump for Greenway with 3-hits, 10-k's & 0-bb's.
2-Hits each for Greenway from Squier, Ozuna, Williams & Wagner. Williams & Ozuna each with 2-rbi's, Squier had 3-rbi's and a 3b.
For PV: Beebe came in relief and threw 3-nice innings of 2-hit ball and 3-k's to slow the Demons down.

The Coronado Dons (13-5, 5-1) rallied in the bottom of seventh to defeat Arcadia (11-9, 2-4) 9-8 at Coronado on Thursday. The Dons got off to a rough start when the Titans batted around in the top of the first scoring four runs and chasing starter Harlan Gatewood. Sophomore Preston McLain had a 2-run single and Thomas Schellhardt, and Eddie Lyon added RBI singles for the Titans. The Dons then sent ace Tim Stempkowski to the mound to stop the bleeding and he delivered in a big way striking out eight of the next nine Titans he faced. The Dons chipped away at the Titan lead getting an unearned run in the bottom of the second and scoring two in the third on a triples by Shane Harney and Stempkowski to pull within one run. The Titans finally began to solve Stempkowski in the fourth, after Jake McWilliam drew a walk and later scored on an RBI single by Schellhardt. The Dons stormed back and took a 6-5 lead in the bottom of the inning getting an RBI double from Harney and scoring another run on a passed ball. Arcadia regained the lead in the fifth when Mike Scannell walked and Brendan Satran singled to left setting up pinch-hitter Tommy Berridge's 2-run single to centerfield making the score 7-6. Both teams went quietly in order in the sixth. In the top of the seventh, Arcadia took an 8-6 lead when Scannell singled and was plated on Satran's RBI double to rightfield. Austin Hansen then took over for Stempkowski getting the final two outs of the inning. Undeterred, the Dons first two hitters reached base on singles in the bottom of the seventh ending the day for Arcadia starter Andrew Naderer. Reliever Colton Sanchez entered and got two ground-outs, but was called for a balk when the base umpire ruled he dropped the baseball while in contact with the pitching rubber, moving the Don's base-runners to second and third. Following a walk, Harney provided the heroics with a 2-run single to centerfield which got under the glove of the charging Satran allowing the winning run to score. Hansen got the win for the Dons.

Leading hitters:

Coronado

Shane Harney (3-5, 2B, 3B, 5 RBI)

Alex Buya (3-4)

Tim Stempkowski (2-4, 2B, 3B)

T.J. Kittle (2-4)

Arcadia

Brendan Satran (2-3, 2B, RBI, 2 SB, 2R)

Thomas Schellhardt (2-4, 2 RBI)

Tommy Berridge (1-1, 2 RBI)

Mike Scannell (1-2, SAC, BB, 2R)

Despite Queen Creek's lack of defense, the Bulldogs proved victorious behind the gutty performance of right-hander Brandon Jackson in a Desert Sky affair Thursday. B-Jack was very impressive going 6 innings and giving up 0 earned runs (5 unearned). The 5 errors behind Brandon (5 Ks, 1 BB) weren't enough for visiting Apache Junction as they fell 11-8. QC's offense was somewhat impressive tallying 11 hits and 8 walks. Adam Brzeczek was perfect at the dish going 4-4, scoring all 4 times and swiping 2 bags. Julian Sandoval (2-3, 2 RBI) went yahtzee and Matt Schmit picked up the trifecta (3-3, BB, 2 RBI). The Bulldogs move to 12-7 overall and 3-4 in the Desert Sky.

SHS 0-0-0-3-3-0-6 = 12R /10H / 2E
MCHS 1-0-1-0-2-0-0 = 4R / 5H /4E

Saguaro swept McClintock in the final regular season match-up. Saguaro converted 10 hits, 4 walks and a hit batsman into twelve runs against the Chargers. Anderson paced the Sabercats batting 3-5, scoring 2 runs and plating another. Brandon Demerest was a one man base stealing machine, swiping 5 bags against Freudenberg and Davis, including stealing home twice.
Chapman was 2-4 with a 2 run home run in the top of the 3rd inning giving the Sabercats their first lead of the game. For the Chargers, Contreras was 1-3, with a double, 2 runs scored and was hit by a pitch.

SHS:
Anderson 3-4, 2R, RBI, K, SB; Chapman 2-4, HR, 3RBI, 2R, Akmon 2-4, R, 3RBI,
SB
WP - Jahnke 4<1/3 IP; 4R, 2ER, 4H, 5K, 3BB, HP, WP, 2E
Steinheiser 3IP, H, 6K

Marcos de Niza defeated Westwood 10 - 1 at MdN on Thursday. Garrett Taggart pitched a gem for the Padres, going the distance giving up 2 hits, 3 BBs while striking out 8.

The Padres got on the board first in the bottom of the first on a double by Nick Fatica, a HBP to Kyle Becerra, and an RBI single by Zach Schira. The Warriors tied the score in the 3rd as Alex Clark reached on an error, a walks to Wiley Yaw and Josh Villanueva and an RBI single by Steven Prichard. De Niza got 4 in the bottom of the inning on a double by Schira, an RBI single by Kendall Konopka, a HBP to Donavon Evashenko, TJ Garcia reached on an error. A run scored on as Jesse Brooks hit into a double play, Daniel Rodriquez got an RBI single, and Patrick Maloney drove in Rodriquez with a triple to right.

The Padres got 4 more in the 5th on a double by Garcia, a single by Brooks, a 2RBI triple by Maloney who scored on a single by Fatica, who stole second and scored on a single by Schira. The Padres last run came in the 6th on a HR by Evashenko.

Mountain Pointe 10 Skyline 8

Mountain Pointe junior Kevin Cron faced off against Skyline junior Trent Keefer, both pitchers went 6 innings with Cron getting the win. Skyline started the scoring in the bottom of the first when Mike Wesolowski led off with a solo home run. The Pride would not answer until the 3rd but they did it in a big way by going through the order and putting up 5 runs. Scott Kingery singled, Avery Konieczny reached on an error and Jordan Kipper put one over the fence with a 3 RBI shot. Josh Alexander then singled, Joey Curletta doubled and Tony Balderama would knock them both in with a double. Skyline answered in the bottom half with 2 runs after Wesolowski singled and Kyle Schoonover brought him in with a bomb. In the 4th the Pride got three more when Cron blasted one over the center field fence bringing in Konieczny who had doubled and Jordan Kipper who had singled. In the bottom of the 5th Skyline got 2 off a Schoonover RBI double which brought in Wesolowski who had reached on a single, Schoonover was then knocked in by Trey Lange. MP got 2 in the sixth off an Alexander lazer shot over the fence which brought in Cron who had walked. Skyline would rally in the 7th bringing in 3 off of hits by Chad Leonard, Wesolowski and a double by Lange.

MP Hitters
Jordan Kipper 2 for 3, HR, 3 RBI's
Kevin Cron 2 for 3, 2B, HR, 3 RBI's
Josh Alexander 2 for 3, HR, 2 RBI's

Skyline Hitters
Mike Wesolowski 4 for 4, HR, RBI
Kyle Schoonover 3 for 4, 2B(2), HR, 3RBI's
Anvel Sinsabough 2 for 3

Williams Field: 13
Tempe: 3

Winning pitcher: Wengert
Losing pitcher: Rosario
Tempe leading hitters: Flores 2-2, HR
Williams Field leading hitters: Gardner 3-4, 2 2B, 5 RBI; Wahlers 3-4, 2 2B 3 RBI

Williams Field scored 13 runs on 13 hits to beat Tempe in 5. A solid outing by Freshman Skyler Wengert was backed by errorless defense and good days at the plate by Jamison Gardner and Drew Wahlers who combined for 8 RBIs. Tempe's Flores hit a solo shot to dead center in the 4th.
The Williams Field Blackhawks improve to 7-1 in region play.

April 8, 2010

Mater Dei 7

Notre Dame 1

At the National Classic in Anaheim California- April 7,2010(Wood Bats)

With sustained Santa Anna winds of 30-40mph blowing in from center field, the makings of a pitchers dual was in place. It lasted until the bottom of the 3rd inning when the Saints began unraveling defensively making 4 errors over the next 2 innings.Notre Dame starting pitcher Kevin Ryan gave up 7 runs( 6 unearned) in 4 innings of work and took the loss before being replaced by Schaefer Whiteaker who tossed 2 scoreless innings in relief.

Joe Luvisi continued his impressive tournament performance at the plate collecting the only 2 Notre Dame hits and driving home the Saints only run.Notre Dame is now 0-3 in the tournament and falls to 9-6 on the year.

On Tuesday, PV suffered its third one-run loss, this time 6-5 to Cactus in 8 innings. Cactus brought their gloves to the game playing errorless baseball, while PV errors led to all 6 Cactus runs. PV starter Malcolm Purdy went 7 innings giving up 4 hits and striking out 5. Cactus starter Goss also pitched 7 innings giving up 7 hits and striking out 6. Cactus scored twice in the top on the 8th on two hits and two PV errors, PV scored one in the bottom of the 8th but left the tying run at third. PV's Fernando Arellano had two hits including a two-rbi triple. Getz and Schott each had two hits for Cactus.

MILLENNIUM 13 LA JOYA 2 (5 innings)

Due to a temporary thin roster, sophomore Kiernan Duncan was brought up to fill in. He did much more than fill in. Hitting lead-off, he went 3-3 and drew a walk, and used his speed and aggressive, heads-up baserunning skills to score 4 runs. He led the offensive onslaught in Millennium's 13-2 win over La Joya. Another sophomore, Anthony Davison drove in 4 runs with 2 doubles and a single, and Ty Johnson (2-2) and Tatum Hendrix (2-3) chipped in a pair of singles each in the Tiger's 12-hit attack.

On the mound, Austin Hoffman picked up his team-leading 5^th win of the year, scattering 5 hits over his 5 innings of work.

Millennium is now 14-7-1 on the season and 4-2 in league play. The Tigers are at home against Tolleson (also 4-2) Friday at 6:00, in what is a huge game for both schools.

April 7, 2010

In Metro Region action, Central beat Maryvale 12-8 last night. Emmanuel Alvarez hit for the cycle going 5-5, single 2 doubles, triples and HR. He had 6RBI’s, scored 4 runs. He also pitched the final 2 innings to pick up the save. Didier Salinas went 5-5 with 3 RBI’s.

Cole Chaisson pitched the first 4 innings giving up 2 runs, striking out 4 and walking 1.

Salpointe 4 South Hills 1

Lancers started Dan Slania (Notre Dame) against back to back CIF champs South Hills Huskies.

Huskies scored at top of 1^st with an RBI single by 4 hitter Jacob Doyle for a 1-0 lead.

Score remained the same as Slania got into his groove until Lancers loaded the bases

In bottom of 4^th.

Bottom 4^th

Scoring Plays :
Harrison Graham: 1b

Jacob Hunter: 1b

With 2 outs: Dan Slania was intentionally walked to load the bases. Jack Hale then started the drive…on 0-2 pitch he hit a high chopper above the pitcher’s Head which the shortstop fielded but errantly threw it passed 1^st baseman. Right fielder Backing up threw to second while Hale was sliding and it went underneath SS gloves. ALL 4 runs scored that inning and Salpointe defense clamped down for win.

WP Dan Slania(7-0) 7IP, 7KS, 0BB, 1ER, 4H.

Game 2 4/6/10

Orange Lutheran Lancers 5 Salpointe Lancers 4. Salpointe rallied late, down 5-2 and had a chance to win it at bottom of 7^th but couldn;t close the deal.

D.J. Peterson and Stephen Tarpley each homered twice and drove in three runs to lead Gilbert to an 11-3 victory over Mountain View. Drew Stankiewicz also homered for Gilbert, which overcame a 3-0 deficit in the first inning. Hunter Herdt retired 15 batters in a row after a shaky first two innings, but shut the Toros out the final six frames. He struck out seven, walked two and gave up five hits.

Deer Valley beat Mountain Ridge 4 to 3 with a 7th inning rally, scoring 2. Jacob Doyle for Deer Valley and Cody Gray for Mountain Ridge both pitched outstanding complete games. Mountain Ridge started out strong by scoring 3 runs in the first inning. Deer Valley started their scoring in the third when Darian Ramage reached first on an error, RJ Rudder singled and Kyle Herrington had a rbi single. In the sixth Deer Valley scored again when Herrington reached second on a 2 base error and Andrew Nicholas doubled in the run. In the final at bat of the game, Darian Ramage led off with a single, RJ Rudder and Jacob Doyle both bunted safely, Kyle Herrington hit a sacrafice fly to tie the game, and Andrew Nicholas followed with the game winning, walk-off single.

WESTWOOD 4 runs, 7 hits, 2 errors

PERRY 7 runs, 7 hits, 2 errors

WP: Max Kraust

LP: Nick Schuman

In an East Valley Region tilt Tuesday, the Perry Pumas took advantage of eight walks and some timely hitting to down the Westwood Warriors. Perry starter Max Kraust got his first Varsity win throwing 5 solid innings, giving up 3 hits, walking 2 and striking out 2. The Pumas got on the board in the first. JT Jobusch worked a full count walk and with 2 outs, Tanner Gunkel delivered a double to score hustling Jobusch. Westwood took the lead in the 4th. After Steven Prichard walked and Gerardo Arzaga singled, Jordan Whiting blasted a first pitch fastball over the left center fence to make it 3-1. The Pumas responded in the bottom halve of the 4th. Collin Braithwaite led off with a walk. Alex Burridge then fouled off eight pitches before singling to left. One out later, Scot Taggart smoked a 2 run double to tie the game. A walk to Aren Lara, followed by an RBI single by David Walker put the Pumas up. An intentional walk to Jobusch loaded the bases. Connor Jones singled to drive in 2 more to make it 6-3. Jones got another RBI in the 6th with a bases loaded walk. Westwood wouldn't go down with out a fight in the 7th. Jobusch had relieved Kraust in the 6th getting 3 K's. In the 7th, after 2 outs, Westwood put together 3 singles and a HBP to make it 7-4. With the bases loaded, Perry left fielder Daniel DiGangi made a nice shoe string catch to end the game. Perry improves to 11-10. Westwood falls to 4-14-1.

Bating Leaders

Westwood: Gerardo Arzaga, 3-4

Andrew Prieto, 2-4, RBI

Jordan Whiting , 1-2, HR, 2 HBP's, 3 RBI's

Perry: David Walker, 2-4, RBI

JT Jobusch, 4 BB's

Scot Taggart, 2B, 2 RBI's

Tanner Gunkel, 2B, BB, RBI

Connor Jones, 1B, BB, 3 RBI's

Max Kraust dealin' for Perry

Bishop Amat 11

Notre Dame 1

At the National Classic in Anaheim California - April 5, 2010 (Wood Bats)

Notre Dame's defense gave up a critcal error with 2 outs in the second inning allowing 2 unearned runs which put them in an early hole in which they could not recover. Tayler Scott took the loss on the mound allowing 7 runs (4 earned) in 4 2/3 innings. Notre Dame reliever Chris Watson had no luck walking 3 batters before giving way to Will King who was tagged with a grand slam to the first batter he faced. Joe Luvisi's RBI single in the 4th inning accounted for the Saints only run.

Palm Desert 5

Notre Dame 3

At the National Classic in Anaheim California -April 6, 2010 (Wood Bats)

Jon Cohn went the distance for the Saints who could not hold a 6th inning 3-2 lead. Cohn struck out 9 in his complete game effort allowing 4 earned runs.The Saints scored all of their runs in the first inning led by Joe Luvisi's RBI Double to the LCF fence. Joey Greco followed with a single to drive in the other 2 Notre Dame runs.The Saints were not able to muster any more offense and fell to 0-2 in the tournament and 9-5 on the year

Saguaro 2-6-2-0-1-0 = 11R / 10H / 1E

McClintock 2-2-0-0-0-0-0 = 4R/ 5H / 3E

The Sabercats exploded for ten hits against the Chargers, half the hits were for extra bases. Saguaro had two players that just missed hitting for the cycle in today's contest. Anderson was 3-3 with a double, and a triple. Anderson walked once and scored three of the Sabercat's runs. Akmon was 3-4 with a double and a solo home run; he scored twice and had 3 RBI for the game. Demerest hit a three run home with no outs in the second inning breaking the game open for Saguaro. McClintock's Messer tried to keep the Charges in the game going 1-3, with a two run home run in the top of the second inning.

SHS:

Anderson 3-3, 2B, 3B, 3R, BB, SB; Akmon 3-4, 2B, HR, 2R, 3RBI; Demerest 1-3, HR, 3RBI, 2R, HBP

WP - Salazar 6IP, 4R, 3ER, 5H, 5K, 3BB, HB, E

McCaslin 1IP, K, HB

MCHS:

Messer, 1-3, HR, 2RBI, R, HBP

Freudenberg 1-3, 2B, 2R, BB

LP - Messer 1 <1/3 IP, 5R, 5ER, 2H, 3BB, 2HB, WP

Urry 5IP; 6R, 4ER, 8H, BB, 2HB, E, WP

Highland jumped out in the top of the first when Noe' Mitchell singled, Mike Greening walked and James Farris singled to load the bases. Xavier Corrales then hit a little nubber up the first base line that scored a run. In the bottom of the first, Austin Emelity led off with a double down the third baseline. After a strikeout, Cody Moffett hit Jason Kellis with a 1-2 pitch and Josh Stone followed with a single to load the bases for Dobson. Moffett induced a fly out and another strike out for a 1-0 Highland lead.

After that, Highland never looked back, scoring single runs in the 2nd and 3rd, two runs in the 4th and another in the fifth. Meanwhile, Moffett settled in and held Dobson until a Dusty Miller lead-off double in the fifth was followed by a couple of errors, a sacrifice bunt by Ryan Storzl and a sacrifice fly by Jason Kellis to make the score 6-2 after 5.

Highland answered with two in the top of the 6th and then put the game out of reach with a huge inning in the 7th.

For Highland, the hitting stars were James Farris who was 4-4 plus a walk with a 2B, HR, 3 RBI and 4 Runs scored. Celebrating a birthday was Westin Wiederhold, who didn't bat till the 7th, but ended 2-2 with a 2B, HR, 2 RBI and 2R scored, making the most of his inning. Gentry Kinsella was 3-5 with 3 RBI, Tyler Clancy 2-2 2B & 2 RBI, Matt Repp was 2-2 with 2 RBI, Christian Jantze was 2-2 with 2 Runs and a stolen base.

For Dobson, the two doubles by Emelity and Miller were the offensive highlights.

Moffett went the distance, allowing 4 hits, 1 walk, 2 HBP, 2 unearned runs while striking out 9 for the win. Starzl took the loss for Dobson.

Pinnacle Rallies Past Chaparral, 10-9

Pinnacle scored four runs on five hits and two walks – all in the seventh inning – to rally past Chaparral, 10-9, Tuesday in the Desert Sky Region opener for both teams. T.C. Mark, who had homered earlier, took a strike and then walked on four consecutive pitches with the bases loaded to bring in David Real with the winning run as night fell quickly on the Pinnacle ballpark.

The decisive hit for Pinnacle came on a one-out, two-strike bases-loaded blooper by Rudy Bogojevich, the No. 9 hitter, that just caught the left-field foul line and brought in Ryan Plantier and Steve Casey to tie the game at 9. Michael Vaughn then walked to load the bases again and bring up Mark.

Alex Real, Plantier, Casey and David Real singled in succession to open the inning. David Real’s hit to left brought in his brother Alex to cut the margin to two.

The two teams play again Thursday at Chaparral. Pinnacle is now 15-3 while Chaparral fell to 12-6.

Chaparral had rallied for five runs of its own in the sixth and seventh innings to turn a two-run deficit into a 9-6 lead. In the sixth, A.J. Schillinger walked and then, with two outs and Blake Spiekerman singled to drive in pinch-runner Will Dyer. After James McDonald singled to left, Aaron Levy singled to the right-field corner to score Spiekerman and McDonald and give Chaparral back the lead, 7-6. The Firebirds tallied two more runs with two outs in the seventh after Joel Hayden reached on an error, Schillinger and Colby Targun walked and Spiekerman doubled down the left-field line, thus setting the stage for the Pinnacle heroics in the bottom of the inning.

Chaparral scored three in the fourth inning to go in front 4-1. Konner Wade was hit by a pitch, Nick DeRegis tripled off the top of the center-field fence and scored on a balk, Joel Hayden doubled off the right field fence and Targun singled to left.

Pinnacle answered right back with three runs of its own in the bottom of the fourth. Plantier reached on a fielder’s choice, Casey doubled to right, David Real was hit by a pitch and Connor Wessel cleared the bases with a three-run double to right-center, his second double of the game.

Michael Vaughn and Mark put the Pioneers ahead, 6-4, with back-to-back home runs to lead off the fifth. Both home runs were to center field.

Michael Vaughn launches one (L) James McDonald and friends celebrate after taking the lead

Matt Schmitt helped the Queen Creek Bulldogs break the funk by snapping their 5 game losing streak with a 3-1 complete game effort in a cleanly played Desert Sky contest at Apache Junction Tuesday. Despite not having his best stuff, Matt gave up one earned run on 5 hits and 8ks, while only walking one. Julian Sandoval and Adam Brzeczek led the Bulldogs with a pair of knocks each. QC's backstop, Jason Frost (2 HBP and a BB), reached base in all three plate appearances, yet didn't register an AB.

Mountain Pointe 10 Casa Grande 0 (5 inning run rule)

Mountain Pointe Pride Senior Joey Rocha took the mound against region foe Casa Grande's Ralph Belloc. Rocha pitched a gem, no hitting CG, striking out 5 and only walking one. The Pride started out the game by putting up 6 in the 1st inning after going through the order. Along the way Josh Alexander got an RBI single, Joey Curletta had a 2RBI triple and sophmore Scott Kingery had a 2RBI double. In the 2nd Pointe got 2 more off an Alexander 2 run opposite field homerun. In the third MP got another 2 off a Kevin Cron 2 run bomb he put over the centerfield wall.

MP Hitters
Josh Alexander 3 for 3, HR, 3 RBI's
Kevin Cron 1 for 1, HR, 2 RBI's
Scott Kingery 1 for 3, 2B, 2 RBI's

Desert Ridge 19
Marcos de Niza 3
5 innings

Desert Ridge:

Kyle Raidy grand slam
Scottie Hoffman 2-run HR and RBI single
Austin Cain solo HR
Travis Flores RBI Double
Taylor Kaczmarek RBI Double and RBI single
Riley Unroe RBI single
Russell Vaughan RBI single
Xavier Sotelo RBI single
Nick McGuiness RBI single

MdN:

Kyle Becerra: 2 for 3 with a run scored
Donavon Evashenko: 1 for 2, Double
Zach Schira: RBI Single and Run scored
Kendall Konopka: RBI Triple and Run scored.
TJ Garcia: RBI Sac Fly.

April 6, 2010

North Canyon 10

St. Mary’s 5

In a region matchup, the North Canyon Rattlers battled a tough St. Mary’s squad and came away with a 10-5 win Monday, April 5 at North Canyon. The Rattlers fell behind 5-0 before scoring 5 runs in the bottom of the 3^rd with a 5 hit barrage including a 2-run home run by senior Kevin Baumgartner and a 2 run single by senior Eric Wise. With the score knotted at 5 in the 5th, Baumgartner stroked a single to knock in 2 runs to give the Rattlers the lead for good.

Junior pitcher Coley Bruns battled all afternoon, going 6 innings, striking out 8 batters, while giving up 8 hits and walking 3 while improving his record to 4-1 on the year. Dom Portocarrero pitched a scoreless 7^th.

For the Rattlers, Baumgartner ended the day 3 for 4 (4 RBI, 2B, HR, 2 RS), Peyton Deiters was 3 for 5 (2B, RS), Marco Burciaga was 2 for 3 (RS), Eric Wise went 2 for 4 (2 RBI, 2B, RS) and Portocarrero reached base all 5 plate appearances – 1 for 3 (2 RBI, 2BB, 3 RS).

For St. Mary’s, Cody Berumen was 2 for 4 and Xavier Garcia and Torin Sadow each had extra base hits.

North Canyon 14

South Mountain 2

The North Canyon Rattlers scored 8 runs in the first inning en route to a 14-2 5-inning run-ruled game over the South Mountain Jaguars on Friday, April 2. Jason Walker hit 3 bombs and tallied 6 RBIs on the day. Peyton Deiters had a solo shot and Dom Portocarrero was a very solid 3 for 4 with 3 RBIs, 2-2B, and 2 RS.

Four different Rattler pitchers combined to hold South Mountain to 4 hits.

April 5, 2010

On Saturday, Red Mountain proved to be too much for Mingus as the Lions prevailed 9-1.

9 Games in 11 days took its toll on Mingus, who played tired and gave up 4 errors. Mingus played Prescott Friday night in Prescott then got home that evening just to get up at 5am to travel to Phoenix for the Red Mountain game. Red Mountain looked fresh and ready. Mingus had to put out their Sophomore pitcher Carlos Abrigo due to the arms being used up in the last 8 straight games and then Matt Chavez came in for some work. Abrigo got the loss. He did a great job under the circumstances. Red Mountain's power hitters TJ Bennett and Cole Gleason were kept at bay without sending any into the seats. Red Mountain took advantage of the Mingus errors early to take a 4-0 lead and never looked back. Red Mountain sent out 7 different pitchers, one each inning. Mingus could only muster 3 hits to go down 9-1 in 7 innings. The Marauders will get a deserved 5 days rest and should be ready to compete in their 4AII Div.

On Friday 4AI Mingus defeated 4AI Prescott 5-3. Mingus jumped into the lead in the first inning. Lead off hitter Hunter Zwart starts the game off with a single , then later scored on a pass ball, Logan Stewart drew a walk then a single to Shaun McCarty, followed by a 2 run double by Carlos Abrigo. After 2 the score stands at 3-0 Mingus. Bottom of the 3rd Prescott gets on the board from a 3 run shot to tie the game up at 3-3. Mingus scores in the top of the 4th from a lead off triple from Hunter Zwart who scores on a fielders choice to make it 4-3 Mingus. Prescott failed to score on a couple of oportunites in the later innings. In the top of the 7th Hunter Zwart singles for his 5th hit of the night scoring Rojas for a Mingus 5-3 lead. Shaun McCarty came in to close out the game striking out the final 2 batters and gets his first save of the year. Mingus 5-3 over Prescott. Winning pitcher was Mike Newhall who gave up 5H,3BB

Leading hitters for Mingus:

Hunter Zwart 5-5 2 Triples , 3 singles, 2 runs scored and 1 Rbi
Carlos Abrigo 2-3 single,double and 2 Rbi's
Austin Rogers 2-4 2 singles
Shaun McCarty 1-3 HBP 1 run scored

Leading hitters for Prescott:

Humberto Aranda 1-3 HR 3 Rbi's
Michael Howard 1-3 1BB

April 2, 2010

Verrado's Cory Knight homered 3 times and knocked in 6 runs in a win over Payson last night.

Williams Field 6, Coronado 5

PITCHERS (inning entered) AND CATCHER

Williams Field: Martino, Allred (7) and Washburn

Coronado: Stempkowski and Smith

LEADING HITTERS

Williams Field: Layton 3-5, HR, 2 RBIs; Gardner 2-4, HR, 2 RBIs

Coronado: Smith 2-5, 2B, 3 RBIs; Buya 2-4, 2B, HR

The Black Hawks, trailing by 1 in the 8th inning, defeated the Coronado Dons with a 2 run walk off homerun by J.D. Layton. Jamison Gardner tacked on another homerun in the 3rd. Nic Martino pitched an outstanding 6 2/3 innings, keeping hitters off balance and locating his pitches allowed him to strike out 7 with no walks apart from 2 hit batsman. Mitch Allred came in and kept the Dons to 1 run in the 8th. A strong complete game outing by Tim Stempkowski kept the Dons in in the ballgame, while Alex Buya and Tony Smith contributed with their sticks.

Coronado's Justin Rodriguez tied it in the 7th for Coronado (L) but JD Layton wins it in the 8th for Williams Field

Ben Thomas was 2-for-2, including a two-out, two-run single in the sixth inning that gave Mountain View breathing room and aided a 5-2 victory over Highland at Mountain View.

Thomas drove in three runs for the day and also had a walk. Nate Hutchins and C.J. Bahn combined to toss a five-hitter for Mountain View. Hutchins went the first four innings and gave up two runs, one earned. Bahn tossed the final three innings allowing one hit and striking out four. Mountain View's defense turned four double plays. Jono Boehme had a two-run double in the first inning off Highland starter James Farris, who pitched very well. Farris threw five innings, struck out 12 and allowed only four hits. Xavier Corrales homered for Highland.

Desert Ridge 11
Perry 0

Taylor Kazmarek pitched 6 scoreless innings and added a Grand Slam

Flagstaff came to Mingus for a 4AII Region game. Mingus opened the game with a single, followed by a walk to Todd Scalf and then a triple by red hot, catcher Logan Stewart who is now hitting over .550 for the season. Shawn Rojas shut down the Flagstaff Eagles in the first inning. It was 3-0 til the top of 5 when Mingus scored another 2 runs from a 2B by Todd Scalf and a sac fly by Logan Stewart. Flag got a run back in the sixth for a 5-1 Mingus lead. In the bottom of the sixth Carson Sandoval led off with a 1B and then Hunter Zwart hit a towering 2 run HR to left center for his (6th) of the year. Mingus tacked on another run from an Rbi single from Shaun Mc Carty. Flagstaff scored another run in the top of the 7th and falls short losing to Mingus 8-2.

Top performers:

Carson Sandoval-3-3 and a run scored

Hunter Zwart-3-4 with a HR (6) 3 Rbi's, 2 Runs scored and a SB

Logan Stewart-2-3 with 3 Rbi's

Shawn Mc Carty 1-3 with an Rbi and a run scored

Todd Scalf-1-3 and a run scored

The Skyline Coyotes bested the Marcos de Niza Padres Tuesday at Skyline High School. Trey Lang threw 6 solid innings in the win, giving up 5 hits with 7 Ks.

The scoring began with the Coyotes tallying a lone run in the bottom of the 1st on a Lang homerun to right-center. The Padres answered with 3 in the top of the 2nd on a solo HR to left-center by Kendall Konopka, a double by Donavon Evashenko and a 2-run HR by T.J. Garcia. de Niza scored 3 more in the top of the 3rd on a BB to Nick Fatica, a fielder's choice by Kyle Becerra, a BB to Konopka, an RBI single by Evashenko, and a 2RBI double by Garrett Taggart. The Coyotes answered with 1 in the bottom of the frame on an HR to left-center by Lang. Skyline scored 3 in the 4th on a singles by Anvil Sinsabaugh, Brian Melendez, Cayle Calderon, a SF by Ricky Alvarez, a single by Jewel Chavez, and a SF by Mike Wesolowski. 5 more came in the 5th on a back to back doubles by Lang and Kyle Lewis, a HBP to Sinsabaugh, single by Melendez, & & doubles by Calderon and Wesolowski. Melendez was 3 for 3 for the Coyotes.

SHS 1-0-1-0-1-0-0-1 = R / 7H / 1E

QCHS 0-0-2-0-0-0-1-0 = 3R / 9H / 2E

It took eight innings, but Saguaro topped Queen Creek for the second time this week. Both the Cats and the Bulldogs were hitting the ball and getting base runners, and both struggled to covert base runners to runs scored. Queen Creek had two failed squeeze plays, one in the first inning and again in the top of the eight inning. Chris Akmon led off the bottom of the eight inning with a triple to right center field. Queen Creek intentionally walked Austin & Chapman to load the bases. With the infield drawn in Kyle Young send a hard hit ball towards the diving first baseman Schmit. Schmit attempted to throw out Akmon at home, but was unable to convert the out.

SHS:

Demerest 2-4, 2-2B, 2RBI ; Akmon 1-4, 3B, game winning R; Young 1-4, game winning RBI

SP - Jahnke 6IP, 2R, 2ER, 8H, 3BB, 2K. 2WP

WP - McCaslin 2IP, R, H, 2K, HBP

QCHS:

Arnet 2-3, 2R, 2R, RBI, HBP, SB; Frost 2-3, 2B, SAC, Kottcamp 2-4, R

SP - Brezeck 6IP, 3R, 3ER, 5H, 2BB, 5K

LP - Arnet 2IP, R, ER, 2H, 3BB, 3K, WP

MILLENNIUM 4 CENTENNIAL 2

With a 4-2 win over Centennial, Millennium improved to 13-6-1 overall and 3-2 in league play. The Tigers scored twice in the first inning and cruised to victory behind the strong right arm of Junior Tatum Hendrix, who scattered 4 hits over 6 innings while recording 10 strikeouts. He’s now 4-1 on the season and 2-0 in league play.
At the plate, Hendrix (2-4) and Tyler Booth (2-3) each had 2 hits, with Booth, Ty Johnson (1-1) and Nyles Fowler (1-3) each producing a clutch 2-out RBI to lead the Tigers on offense.

Arcadia snapped a two-game losing streak with a 20-1 route of Tempe on Thursday. Sophomore Andrew Naderer had another strong outing for the Titans pitching four innings of three-hit ball to earn the victory. He was also assisted by his infield mates who turned two inning ending double plays. Jr. Colton Sanchez pitched the fifth inning striking out three. The Titan offense pounded out 14 hits, including three triples, and plated runs in every inning.

Leading hitters:

Jake McWilliam 3-4, 3B, 2 RBI, 5R, BB, HBP

Thomas Schellhardt 3-4, 2B, 2 RBI

Max Schuman 2-3, RBI

Tim Janssen 1-1, 3B, 2 RBI

Brendan Satran 1-4, 3B, 2 RBI, 2 SB

Andrew Serna 1-1, 2B, RBI

Central defeated Camelback 18 to 8. Erik Michel threw 4 solid innings for Central. Emmanuel Alvarez had 4 hits and 4 rbi's including 2 doubles. Yosvel Montes was 2-4 with a couple rbi's and Cole Chaisson was 3-5 with a double and 3 runs scored. In addition, Justin Montefalcon had a double and Stevin Comstock had 2 rbi's as well.

On Wednesday, Red Mountain cranked 7 homers en route to a 19-6 de-frocking of the Marcos De Niza Padres. Cole Gleason and TJ Bennett each went deep twice. Kelly Walsh, Alex Slota, and Michael Gwynn added their first homers of the year.

Chaparral Rally against Bingham Comes Up Short

A seventh inning rally fell just short for Chaparral on Thursday and the Firebirds dropped a 6-4 decision to Bingham, Utah in a consolation game in the Horizon Big League Dugout National Invitation Tournament.

Chaparral scored two runs on a single to left-center by James McDonald that brought in Joel Hayden, who had led off with a walk, and Colby Targun, who had doubled to left-center. The Firebirds then loaded the bases on a fielder’s choice, a single by Aaron Levy and an error on a hard-hit ball by Konner Wade. But the threat ended there when Bingham shortstop Derek Whitney fielded a ground ball and flipped to second base to end the game.

The loss was the second straight for the Firebirds and dropped their record to 12-5 with play in the Desert Sky Region set to begin next week.

Chaparral fell behind 4-0 in the first two innings. The Firebirds sliced the margin in half in the third when Targun singled to center, McDonald drove a curve ball deep to the gap in left for a triple and Blake Spiekerman delivered a sacrifice to center. Levy followed with a single and Wade was hit by a pitch, but a ground ball brought that rally to a close as well.

In the sixth, Wade delivered a one-out double to the gap in right and went to third on a wild pitch, but was stranded by a pair of ground-ball outs.

McDonald, with three RBIs, Targun and Levy all had two hits for Chaparral.

Targun and Nick Diamond, who pitched a four-hitter in pool-play victory over Libertyville, IL were selected to the all-tournament team. Hamilton, which won over Chaparral on Wednesday, won the tournament with victories over Harvard-Westlake, CA and Rocky Mountain, CO.

The Mountain Pointe Pride defeated the Marcos de Niza Padres 18-3 in a slugfest at MdN on Thursday.

Mountain Pointe opened the flood gates in the 2nd with five runs. Joey Curletta and Tony Balderama started off with singles, Joey Rocha reached on an error while Curletta scored. Steven Gorman drove in 3 with a HR to left center. Back to back doubles by Jordan Kipper and Kevin Cron resulted in a run. The Padres answered with 2 in the bottom of the frame on a solo HR by Kendall Konopka, a triple by Donavon Evashenko who scored as TJ Garcia reached on an error.
The Padres got 2 in the 3rd on a BB to Nick Fatica, who moved to 3rd on a steal and a throwing error, and scored on a ground out by Kyle Becerra. Zach Schira doubled, Konopka walked and Evashenko plated Schira with a single to right. The Pride scored 1 in the 4th on walks to Avery Konieczny, Cron, Josh Alexander and a wild pitch. The Padres tied it at 6 in the bottom of the inning on a walks to Pat Maloney, Fatica and Becerra followed by a 2 run single by Schira.
The Pride opened a 5 run lead in the 5th on a single by Balderama, double by Rocha, a 2 run single by Justin Tibbet, Scott Kinery reached on an error, 2 RBI double by Cron, and an RBI single by Alexander. After a 1-2-3 bottom of the fifth by the hosts, the Pride added 1 in the 6th and 6 in the 7th. In the 6th, Kingery tripled to the fence in left and scored on a single by Konieczny. The 7th saw singles by Cron, Alexander, Curletta, Balderama, doubles by Tibbet and Kingery push across 6 more.
The Padres made a valiant comeback in the bottom of the 7th. Konopka opened the inning with a double, Evashenko singled, Garcia reached on an error, scoring 1. RBI singles by Cameron Larson and Maloney were followed by a Fatica walk and a 2-run double by Kyle Becerra. Schira pushed across a run with a ground out, and Konopka drove in 1 with a single to close out the 7 run inning.

Basha hammered Dobson 16-0 with Brent Hendy tossing a 5 inning 3 hitter with 6 Ks

Leading Hitters-
Michael Benjamin- 3 for 3, HR(6), 2 RBI's
Colby Keicher- 3 for 3, 2 HR(3), 6 RBI's
Zach Williams- 3 for 3, 2B, 5 RBI's

Desert Mountain beat Valley Vista 14-4 in 5 innings Desert Mountain threw 4 different pitchers with a start out of Matt Lewis going two innings, Hunter Thompson, Cody Erickson, and David Greer all pitching 1 inning of relief.Adam Sonabend was 2 for 2 with a 3 run homerun and a rbi single and Hunter Thompson was 2 for 2 with a Grand Slam and a single. Both had 4 rbi's on the day. Desert Mountain scored 13 runs in the first inning.

North Canyon 4

Westview 2

Solid pitching and an opportunistic offense enabled the North Canyon Rattlers to defeat the Westview Knights 4-2 on Wednesday, March 31. After giving up first inning solo home runs to Nate McOwen and Brandon Lopez, senior Rattler LHP Kevin Baumgartner scattered 4 hits the rest of the way and struck out 12 in a complete game effort to improve to 4-1 on the season. A sac fly RBI by Dom Portocarrero and a 2-run HR by Jason Walker powered the Rattlers to their 9th win in the past 10 games. Connor Bowen was 2 for 3 with a run scored for the Rattlers. Brandon Lopez was 2 for 3 for the Knights.

April 1, 2010

Salpointe 12 Desert Mountain 1

On a very windy day in Scottsdale , The Lancers visited the Wolves.

Coming from a disappointing loss from Ironwood Ridge 2 days before, they started Senior Dan Slania the 6^th time this season and the stopper took the mound and did not disappoint.

The Wolves started Junior Hunter Lambert.

Desert Mountain put some pressure early but Dan Slania and his defense clamped down before pulling away. There were some nice defensive plays this game blended in with the offensive fireworks.

SCORING PLAYS:

TOP of 1^st

Joseph Serrano – ROE, stole 3b

Harrison Graham - Sac bunt advancing Serrano

Marc Gavre – 1b RBI scoring Serrano. SCORE 1-0

Bottom of 1^st

Austin Mill – 1b

Michael Janakis – KS and Marc Gavre Threw Mill out at 2b. “ Strike ‘em out throw ‘em out.

Solo HR shot by Taylor Lindsey (7)..at L center. SCORE 1-1

TOP of 3^rd

Joseph Serrano – BB

Harrison Graham – BB ..then double steal

Jacob Hunter –Sac Fly scoring Serrano

Marc Gavre – 1b RBI bringing in Graham. SCORE 3-1

BOTTOM of 3^rd

After Striking out his 3^rd batter for 1^st out, Freshman Erickson drove a 1b to RF. Another single followed from Austin Mill towards the 3b line to have 2 runners on with one out. A passed ball advanced the 2 runners when Michael Janakis hit a sharp grounder to 3^rd baseman Ryan Penaflor who was playing in and effectively hosed Erickson at the plate to make it 2 outs. After walking Taylor Lindsey to load the bases, Slania Struck out Sonnabend to quelch the rally.

TOP of 4^th

Ryan Penaflor – HBP

2R HR by Joseph Serrano (2) SCORE 5-1

TOP of 6^th

Kevin Brice – BB ..CS. 1 out

Hunter Miller – 1b ..pinch run by Sophomore Fernando Careaga

Joseph Serrano – BB

Harrison Graham – 1b RBI bringing in Careaga.

3R HR by Jacob Hunter (4)..hit top of fence at RF .

Marc Gavre – BB ..pinch run by Junior Forest Redd

Dan Slania – 1b

Jack Hale – 1b RBI bringing in Redd.

Kevin Brice – 1b 2RBI bringing in Slania and Hale. SCORE 12-1

PLAYER OF GAME

WP Dan Slania 6IP, 7KS, 2BB, 8H, 1ER,

Offensively he was 3/3, 2b,BB, RBI.

Taylor Lindsey turns it with Jacob Hunter bearing down (L) Harrison Graham corrals one in center

Notre Dame 12

Higley 8

Notre Dames normally reliable defense fell apart for Sam Napp's first varsity start on the mound allowing 4 unearned runs which left the Saints trailing 7-2 after 2 innings. The Saints bats came alive the rest of the way scoring every inning thereafter to rally from behind to a 12-8 victory. Sophomore Greg Hopkins first varsity home run was the key hit in a 4 run 3rd inning which closed the gap to 7-6. Tayler Scott, Joey Greco, Bobby Kohnen, Brian Poupore and David Wynne added 2 hits a piece to the Saints offense. Lefty Kevin Ryan pitched 3 solid innings of middle relief allowing only 1 run and Chris Watson pitched a scoreless 7th inning as Notre Dame improved to 9-3 on the year

Pinnacle 12 Chandler 2

Pinnacle traveled to Chandler to play the Wolves on Wednesday and won a 12-2 5 inning contest. The Pioneers bats were again hot as Alex Real was 2/2 with a Jack, 2 rbi and 3 runs, Jake Peevyhouse was 2/3 w 3rbi & HR, Steve Casey 2/3 w 2 runs, Rudy Bogojevich 1/2 3 rbi, and Ryan Plantier hit a 2 run homer, his 6th of the season. Steve Casey threw 5 solid innings for Pinnacle to get the win.

In a big west valley matchup(14-3) Copper Canyon Aztecs played visiting (12-2) Liberty Lions in a hitters dream of a ballfield. (Jr.)Tony Suarez led the way for the Aztecs: 3 for 4 with a game winning walk off RBI single. (Jr.) Mike Hernandez hit his 1st homer of the year putting the Aztecs up 2-1.

Liberty struck again with another homerun off (Jr.) Alex Gutierrez. These two homeruns proved to be the only blunders for (5-0) Gutierrez:7 innings, 5 hit, 10 Ks. Alex handed the ball over to brother (Sr.) Rudy Gutierrez:3 innings, 4 Ks 0 hits for the win! Marcos Gomez led the way with another strong leadership performance. Both teams played flawless baseball. Copper Canyon Improves to school best 15-3 on the year.

Derrick Corrales smacked a two-run double in the top of the seventh inning to rally Tolleson to a 5-4 victory over Mountain View at Mountain View.

Corrales also pitched five innings of relief to pick up the win allowing one earned run. He struck out seven.

Willie Ethington pitched six innings and allowed just one hit and no runs after getting hit hard the first two innings when he surrendered six hits and three runs. Ethington was 2-for-4 at the plate with a double and two-run homer. Nick Morales added two hits for the Toros who lost their second straight one-run game.

T. Browne 14    B. Fairfax 6

With no score after 2 innings Fairfax scores 2 runs in the bottom of the 3rd. TBHS scores 3 in the 4th and adds 4 more in the 5th to go up 7-2 after 5inn. BFHS adds 2 runs in the 6th (7-4) but cant keep it close in the 7th as the Bruins score 7 runs and limit The Stampede to 2 runs in the bottom of the 7th for th 14-6 victory.
Fairfax HS continues to compete and do well early in thier match-ups but experience, injuries and eligibility maintain it's hold on The Stampede in thier 1st Varsity Campaign.
Jr. Sammy Baca (CF) regained his hitting stroke (2-4 2B 3B 2RBI 2R .360) after missing 2 games (knee injury) and then struggled in his first 3 games back. Jr. Eric Camarena (1B) who will undergo surgery (broken nose) after the season also has regained his stroke after 2 sluggish games upon his return (missed 6 games) going 2-3 2B 2RBI (.269). Both contribute with solid defense, speed on the base paths and hit #2 and #3 in the batting order. Fairfax falls to 2-5 in 5A II Metro League Play.
BFHS has relied on the production of Sophmores... SS Parker Gallegos (.429 3HR), 2B Mikey Lambard (.333) and OF Alonso Gonzalez (.333).

TBHS
SS Alex Rodriguez     3-5   1HR   2/3B   4RBI   2R
CF Carlos Lizzaraga    2-5 2B      3B     2RBI   2R

WP Jacob Potts
LP Parker Gallegos

Dalton England scattered 4 hits in a complete game effort and Drew Stankiewicz homered twice as Gilbert run ruled Mesquite 11-1. Stankiewicz and Nathaniel Causey each had 3 hit games for the Tigers. Tyler Kamtz added a big fly as well.

Pinnacle 12 Chandler 2

Deer Valley beat Willow Canyon on Tuesday 5 to 2 with Jacob Doyle throwing a complete game, giving up 5 hits and striking out 8. Extra base hits for Deer Valley were by Doyle and Kyle Herrington.

Deer Valley beat Goldwater on Wednesday 16 to 0 in a six inning complete game thrown by Darian Ramage. Andrew Nicholas had a 3 run homerun to go with a rbi double, and a rbi single . Zach Richter had a rbi single, and Jacob Doyle had 3 hits with 2 rbi's. Ramage helped with his bat in the 6th with a 2 run double in the 6th when DV put up 9 runs.

Hamilton Wins Easily over Chaparral

Hamilton hitters hammered Chaparral relief pitching Wednesday in winning, 14-1, on the third day of pool play in the Horizon Big League Dugout National Invitation Tournament. Hamilton, playing at its own field, erupted for 12 runs on 10 hits in the fourth-inning to turn a hard-fought battle into a run-rule route.

Until then, starters Zach Johnson (for Hamilton) and Joey Bielek (for Chaparral) had been locked in an intense pitcher’s duel. Hamilton held a 2-1 advantage and had recorded five hits to Chaparral’s four.

But Bielek’s pitch count was higher, and he came out after Ben Johnson singled to lead off the fourth inning. Gabe Teran struck out and then the flood gates opened. Eleven of the next 12 Huskies reached base safely and all eleven scored. Manual Mancini, who did not enter until the fourth inning, highlighted the barrage with an infield single to drive in one run and a home run to dead center to drive in three more. Colton Frabasillo drove in three runs with a double to deep right-center. Andy Moore, Flores, and Teran, all with doubles, also had extra base hits in the inning.

For Chaparral, Colby Targun had two hits and gave the Firebirds a 1-0 lead when he scored on a wild pitch in the first. Hamilton tied it in the second on a walk to Parker Osborne, a single by Frabasillo and a ground ball by Johnson. The Huskies took their 2-1 lead in the third inning on singles by Flores, Ryan Casillas and Derek Hill.

Both teams, 2-0 in the tournament before yesterday, continue play in the event today.