LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

MOST VALUABLE PITCHER - RUSS LOWELL MOST VALUABLE OFFENSIVE PLAYER - JIMMY PIERCE MAVERICK SPIRIT AWARD - MIKE RAMIREZ

The Mavericks lost to Eastlake 8-3 in the CIF Playoffs to conclude the season. They finished the season 16-15. Eatlake (27-9) was a tough draw for the young Mavericks as the Titans were the preseason No. 1 pick and arguably the second best team in the CIF Div I Playoffs. The Titans had lost only one time all year in their home park and eliminated Rancho Buena Vista and Fallbrook from the Playoffs. The Titans lost to the eventual CIF Champion Rancho Bernardo, twice, 5-6, and 3-5. Granite Hills had beaten Palomar League Champion Poway twice, but Rancho Bernardo won the CIF Championship Game 8-2. The Mavericks' season highlights included winning the Preseason Falcon-Pirate tournament, splitting two games with Avocado League Champion Fallbrook, beating CIF Champion Rancho Bernardo(31-5) once and loosing to the Broncos once in extra innings, and beating Torrey Pines two out of three league games. If you asked CIF Champion Rancho Bernardo who the toughest pitcher they faced this year they might say it was the Mavericks' Russell Lowell. On April 21st Russ pitched a complete game, 7 inning shut out win over the Broncos, 1-0. On May 5th Russ limited the Broncos to only one run through 8 innings before loosing 2-1 in the bottom of the 9th inning. On April 8th Russ held Fallbrook to only 3 runs in an 8-3 win for the Mavericks over the Avocado League Champs. In 2005 Russ pitched 60 innings, allowing 46 hits and striking out 78, while posting a tough luck record of only 4-6. MAVERICK TEAM CAREER LEADERS IN STRIKE OUTS IN ONE SEASON Doug Konoske - 2004 112 Paul Oseguera - 1999 99 Paul Oseguera - 2000 87 Paul Jacinto - 1998 83 Russell Lowell - 2005 78 Mike Oseguera - 1998 77 MAVERICK TEAM CAREER LEADERS IN INDIVIDUAL HITTING IN ONE SEASON Junior Short Stop Jimmy Pierce broke into the top ten in two individual hitting categories, with ten doubles and seventeen walks as he finished with a .305 batting average.

Lance Altshuler (2002) - Lance's comeback bid was cut short by a hand injury but in six games for Los Angeles Mission Community College, Lance had a .222 batting average with 18 AB, 4 hits, 2 rbi's, 2 BB, 3 SO, and 1 HbP. Matt Ryan (2002) - Matt is a redshirt sophomore at Sonoma State (19-24, 13-14) battling for playing time at catcher, with three starts in his 9 appearances, Matt has one hit in 11 at bats. Will Stoffel (2002) - After shoulder surgery in Nov. 2002 Will returned to the mound at Santa Barbara City College(17-11,7-9) against Pasadena City College, he pitched a scoreless 2 and 2/3rds innings, on one hit and one K, to help the Vaqueros hold on to an 11-6 win. On April 1st against Moorpark he threw 4 innings, allowing no runs on one hit, striking out 3 and walking 2. In 5 appearances and 8 1/3rd innings Will has allowed 4 ER on 8 hits, 2 BB and 6 SO. Paul Oseguera (2002) - After elbow surgery in Sept 2002 and three years of rehab Paul is on the active roster for the UCLA Bruins(8-25) as a relief pitcher. He recently made his first college appearance against the defending NCAA Champion Cal State Fullerton, pitching 1 and 2/3rds innings, giving up no runs on 2 hits, 2 BB and 1 strike out. On April 16th Paul notched his first save. UCLA was leading UC Santa Barbara 9-8 in the bottom of the 9th inning. Paul entered the game with runners at second and third and only one out. Paul needed only 7 pitches to strike out the final two hitters. On April 20th Paul got his first start of the year at San Diego State. He pitched 4 innings and left with a 5-4 lead, allowing 5 hits and striking out 6. On May 10th Paul got his 3rd start of the year and his first collegiate win, against UC Irvine; working five innings, allowing one run on six hits and striking out three. Casey Sterk (2002) - Casey has played in 53 of Wake Forest's 56 games, (28-30, 12-18) starting in right field, he finsihed the season with a batting average of .250, with AB 204, Hits 51, Home Runs 1, 2b 11, Runs 32, RBI's 24, BB 25, HbP 4, SO 32, OBP % .340, Stolen Bases 10 in 13 atempts, Put Outs 120, Assists 3, Errors 6. Casey started April off by helping the Deacons(16-20, 9-11)complete a 3 game sweep of Duke in which Casey had 5 hits and a 3 run home run, and 10 put outs in the field. The Deacons also beat #6 ranked Miami 13-6 and against #11 North Carolina Casey was 2 for 5 with 2 runs scored. In a recent 9-5 win over NC State Casey was 2 for 3 with a 2b and 2 runs scored. Wake Forest finished the year in the ACC Tournament with wins over Duke, Maryland and North Carolina, but lost to Georgia Tech and Florida State. Joey Burke (2003) - Joey was named an ALL Conference infielder in his second year at Palomar (34-11), starting most of the games at second base' and hitting lead off for the Pacific Coast Conference Champions with a regular season batting avg of .301, 3 HR, 2 2b, 22 rbi's, 27 r, 19 BB, 13 SO, 6 HbP,and 10 stolen bases. Joey was a big part of the Comets 8-3 run through the State Playoffs as they reached the State Championship game before falling short. Drew Logan (2003) - Drew is red shirting this year at Palomar while he strengthens his pitching arm. Andrew Nacario (2003) Andrew returns for his second year at Dartmouth College (14-21, 8-12). The Big Green were the preseason pick to win the Ivy League, but they did not play their first game until March 19th in Florida. In a 2-0 win over Bucknell the key defensive play of the game came in the first inning when Andrew, the starting left fielder, threw out a runner at home plate. Andrew has moved up to the lead off spot in the batting order and he has started 19 of their 21 games. He is batting .288, R-11, 2b-4, rbi's-7, BB-4, HbP-6, and 2 of 5 on SBA. Nick Burke (2004) - Nick has played in five games for the University of California at Riverside (28-27,11-10), in a loss at UCLA he had four put outs in the outfield, and a hit and one walk in two at bats, and has a .333 batting average. UC Riv. had wins over USC 8-3, UCLA and finished the year with a 6-2 win over the No. One ranked CSU Fullerton 6-2. Scott Clement (2004) - Scott has played in 23 games for State Finalist - Palomar (34-11), at designated hitter or back up catcher, with a regular season .314 batting average, 4 HR, 18 runs, 1 3b, 4 2b, 15 rbi's, 10 BB, and 14 SO. Michael Kenney (2004) - Michael is redshirting at Saddleback Community College, the defending State Community College champs. Doug Konoske (2004) - Doug has one start this year for Pepperdine University(38-21, 21-9), in a 4-3 loss to Long Beach State, Doug went 4 and 1/3 innings, giving up 1 earned run, on 4 hits, 1 BB and 2 strike outs. Doug has 19 appearances, a total of 34 1/3 innings, allowing 10 ER on 38 hits, 13 BB, 30 SO and a 2.62 ERA. Pepperdine started the NCAA regional tournament against USC. Kevin Patterson (2004) - Kevin is a reserve outfielder at Palomar(34-11), a finalist in the State playoffs, and played in 5 games with one start, he has 1 BB and 3 SO in 8 AB.

La Costa Canyon travels to Eastlake to play the Titans on Tuesday, May 24th at 4:00pm in the CIF Playoff's lower bracket play in game. The winner of this game travels to Rancho Bernardo on Wednesday.

T E A M L E A G U E O V E R A L L W - L - T W - L - T POWAY 14 - 1 - 0 26 - 4 - 0 RANCHO BERNARDO 11 - 4 - 0 26 - 5 - 0 TORREY PINES 8 - 7 - 0 13 - 15 - 0 LA COSTA CANYON 6 - 9 - 0 16 - 14 - 0 MT CARMEL 4 - 11 - 0 11 - 19 - 0 WESTVIEW 2 - 13 - 0 10 - 18 - 0