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La Costa traveled south to face Torrey Pines in the opener of the Pacific Classic Tournament. The lead changed hands three times, but the Mav's soon pulled ahead and never looked back winning by a score of 10-3. Chad Theriault looked strong on the mound and seemed to get stronger with each inning. Brody Curtis closed and was very effective, giving up no runs and using just 32 pitches.
Andrew Solomon led the offense, nearly hitting for the cycle. Solomon hit a homerun, then a triple, then a double - finally making his only out of the day in his last at bat. The bats were hot as the team batted around in both the 3rd and 4th innings. Casinelli, Winters, and Miller supported with two hits each. The defense was solid with the outfield continuing their streak of errorless games.
The team now moves to 10-2 for 2010. Next up is a home game against Poway.
ZALUD AND MACNABB LEAD MAVERICKS IN LIONS TOURNEY
"Nothing ugly about La Costa Canyon win over Cathedral."
NORTH COUNTY TIMES
BY JOHN MAFFEI
"Vista-- In baseball parlance it's called an "ugly finder." As the saying goes, when a defensive player is forced to play out of position, the ball is sure to find him. Monday it happened to Bobby Zalud. Starting in Center Field for La Costa Canyon High in the opening round of the 60 annual Lions Tournament, Zalud was called in to play shortstop in the second inning when Phillip Evans left the game with a sciatic nerve injury. And sure enough, the first ball hit to Zalud was a bolt off the bat of Cathedral Catholic's Nick Fornaca. "I took it off my stomach and turned it into a double play," Zalud said with a smile. "That one hurt a little bit." Zalud was flawless on three other chances and had an RBI double in the sixth inning to break up a scoreless tie as the Mavericks edged the Dons 2-0 in a Classic Division game at Rancho Buena Vista High.
"I hadn't played shortstop since my fresman year," said Zalud, a senior kicker on the football team who is headed to Arkansas State on a football scholarship where he also wants to play baseball. "I took some grounders last week, but being asked to play shortstop was a big surprise."
Senior left-hander Max MacNabb, who is headed to the University of San Diego on a baseball scholarship, made sure all his infielders were on their toes, getting 11 groundball outs to go along with his 11 strike outs. "When your best player (Evans) gets hurt, you have to adapt and overcome." said LCC coach Justin Machado. "The ball has a way of finding guys who are out of position, but Bobby really clutched up defensively, and he had the game winning hit."
MacNabb and Cathedral lefty Danny Tyson were locked in a pitcher's duel through five innings. But Kevin Hill started the LCC sixth with a single to left and went to third on an error. Zalud followed with a booming double into the ally in left-center, and eventually scored on Matt Hall's infield grounder. Tyson allowed just five hits over six innings, walked just one and struck out eight.
"MacNabb threw a heckuva game," said Cathedral coach Gary Remiker. "But I was hoping for some better at-bats from my hitters, especially when we had runners in scoring position." The Dons (6-4) had runners on first and second in the second inning, second and third in the third, second in the sixth, and first and second in the seventh, but couldn't push a run across. "I'm really happy with the way Tyson threw, but LCC had better at-bats then we did," Remiker said. "We've played a tough schedule (beating Poway, Rancho Buena Vista and Escondido), and that's the way we like it. We're a Division III team in the Western League. We want to show the North County teams we can play."
La Costa Canyon (8-2) has run the gauntlet with it's schedule with wins over Carlsbad, Torrey Pines and Poway and losses to Rancho Bernardo and Vista. "And we get to play Vista again tomorrow," said Machado. "But nothing is easy. This game was a lot of fun, well played on both sides with great pitching. It's the Classic Division of the Lions Tournament, what else could you expect?"
With strong pitching, good defense and powerful hitting the Mavericks beat Poway by a score of 11 - 2. Kyle Sachrison controlled the game from the mound facing just nine batters in the first three innings. In five innings Kyle struck out six batters and gave up no earned runs. Keats Ewing provided two innings of relief.
The Mavericks brought their bats today - with Solomon, Davern, and Winters each having two hits a piece. Colin went yard again with a BOMB over the right field fence (in to the wind).
The team is now 2-1 in the North County Tournament.
Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 10th. The 2nd Annual Homerun Derby will be held at the LCC Varsity Field. This year's event features an HR Derby for all LCC Players, a Silent Auction, and opportunities to purchase Mav Wear. The Snack Bar will of course be open for business as well. This event is our top fund raiser for Maverick baseball - please be there to support our program.
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