LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

The Mavericks returned to their home field and broke out the bats to beat Vista by a score of 16 to 6.  The Mav's banged out 15 hits, including Sam Casinelli's jack over the left field fence.  Casinelli, Winters, Solomon, Miller, and Friederichsen all had 2 RBI's each, and Allmaras, Casinelli, Marinos, Winters, Davern, Solomon, Miller, Freiderichsen, Sachrison, and Casas all had baseknocks.    Chad Theriault got the win, with Kyle Morris and Drew Addy providing relief innings.

La Costa is now 1 -1 in the North County Tournament and 8-2 on the season.

Great baseball comes in many forms.  These decisive plays aren’t always credited in the statistics or boxscore.  Two such plays occurred in the Mavericks 13-10 win yesterday against the Falcon/ Pirate tournament Champion Broncos.  The first unsung hero was Marcos Vera who battled the Bronco pitcher for 12 pitches before eventually lining out to center field.  This quality at bat appeared to tire the opposing pitcher, allowing the slumping Mavs to break through and score 6 runs in the inning.  The second outstanding play occurred in the bottom half of the same inning when an overthrow was backed up by hustling catcher Zach Armstrong, who retrieved the throw down the right field line and threw out the tying baserunner at second.  Offensively the boys finally got on track pounding out 18 hits.  Noteables were: Weston Corica who had 4 hits including a Homerun and a double. Tanner Gage had 3 hits including a double, Andrew Hinkle 3 hits, Danny Martin doubled and tripled.  Josh McMahon recorded a double and a single to go with 3 RBI’s.  On the Pitching side, Nick McAdoo got his first win of the year, pitching 2 innings in relief of Gage. Skyler Redondo notched his first save.

Coming off two extremely well played games and a tournament victory, the boys from LCC were flat.   The Mav's attempted to make a late game surge by threatening with the tying run at the plate in the last inning, but Rancho Bernardo managed to hang on and beat the  Mavericks by a score of 9-7.   The Mavericks now have their work cut out to bounce back and qualify for the North County tournament finals. 

LCC was hard pressed to produce many highlights for the game - other than another HR bomb by Colin Winters.

Congrats to Max Mac Nabb, Justin Graeber, Will Swanner and Micheal Swanner on being selected to the Rawlings/Perfect Game Preseason California Region All High School Teams.  Check out the site

 http://www.perfectgame.org/all_americans/2010/california.aspx