LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

North County Times - Rob Terranova

  La Costa Canyon High's Trent Swart tossed a perfect game Wednesday afternoon, continuing his dominant senior season by striking out 15 in a 9-0 victory at Oceanside.

  "He just dominated our line-up," Oceanside coach Dave Barrett said. "It was his day."

   Swart (4-0) has allowed just one run in 31 innings this season. Wednesday's outing lowered his ERA to 0.23.

   "I just wanted to go out there today and be effective," said the Duke-bound Swart,"I heard people saying stuff about the perfect game when I was going to the mound in the seventh, but I just went out there and went right at the guys."

   Said Mavericks coach Justin Machado: "He had greeat command of all three pitches today. He was able to get that first strike and he never had a three-ball count. He's always been one of the best pitchers we ever had."

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      This was the very first Perfect Game in La Costa Canyon High School's History.   No runs, no hits, no walks and no errors in the field. Twenty one up and twenty one down.

     A no hitter at any level of baseball usually involves at least one great defensive play. Swart made it easy on his team mates by striking out 15 Pirates. His team mates did their part in making six outs in the field without a single error.

     In three games against Oceanside the Pirates scored zero runs and collected only three hits in the three games.

     In Wednesday's game LCC's Phillip Evans hit two home runs and knocked in 4 runs, and  Evan Schrieber added another home run and 2 rbi's.

 

 

 

The bats came alive for the Mavericks on Wednesday at Oceanside High School beating the Pirates 16-0.  The offense collected 19 hits and had two home runs by Phillip Evans and Wyatt Oren.  Four Mavericks had multiple hits.  Defensively Swart set the tone pitching five shutout innings, 1 hit, striking out 12 and walking 2.  He was relieved by Anthony Balderas who pitched a perfect 6th striking out 2.  Colin Winters pitched the 7th striking out three.  On the day the Mavericks had 17 strikeouts.  The victory moves the Mavericks record to 11-2 and 1-0 in league play.  The Mavs play Oceanside again on Friday at 3:30 at LCC.

The Mavericks lost to Vista 5-1 on Thursday snapping their ten game winning streak.  Vista came out of the gates hot swinging the bats scoring three in the first and two in the second.  The Maverick bats just couldn't string together consecutive hits scoring one run on a Weston Corica sac fly in the 6th.  Andrew Hinkle pitched four scoreless innings giving up one hit and striking out five to keep Vista in reach.  The loss moves the Mavericks record to 10-1 on the season.  They play at Bonita Vista on Monday in a non-league contest.

 

Torrey Pines beat Vista 5-1 on Saturday to win North County Tournament Championship.

Jake Schulz had one his best outings as a Maverick Monday afternoon vs. Westview High School.  Jake threw a complete game shutout, allowing 2 hits, walking one, and striking out 11.  Without his performance the Mavericks would have been in trouble with their offense struggling to produce runs.  The Mavericks had 8 hits on the day but could never capitalize with runners in scoring position.  The only run of the game came when Zach Tieger singled, Matt Hall walked, and Anthony Balderas hit a single to right scoring Tieger.  The win moves the Mavericks record to 9-0 and 3-0 in the North County Tournament.  The Mavericks will play SDA today at 3:30 at SDA.

Trent Swart pitched a complete game Saturday afternoon to beat Rancho Bernardo 6-1.  On the day Swart had one earned run, 7 hits, and 10k's. The game started with RB getting two doubles in the first plating their only run.  The Mavs answered in the bottom with two out hits by Phillip Evans, Matt Hall, and a run scoring double by Anthony Balderas.  The game went scoreless until the fifth when the Mavericks broke open the game.  Martin, Evans, Balderas and Shreiber walked to score one.  Then Nick Hanggie drove a single to left that got by the left fielder clearing the bases.  The Mavericks then got one more in the 6th when Chad Jensen led off with a single and later scored on Zach Tieger's single down the right field line.  The win moves the Mavericks record to 8-0 and 2-0 in the North County Tournament.  The Mavs will play again on Monday vs. Westview.