Several local scholastic baseball teams hit the diamond in recent days as CIF play heated up.
La Jolla Country Day School opened play with a 13-6 victory over Imperial last week in a play-in game.
Senior Kyle Reese earned the win on the mound, going the first four innings. Freshman Sam Wisenberg earned the save, throwing three scoreless innings to finish.
Ben Sweeney, Mike McKenna and Greg Wisenberg each contributed two hits. John Hansbrough hit a first-inning grand slam to put the Torreys up for good.
In action last Wednesday, senior Zack Campbell threw a great game, giving up two earned runs through six innings versus Horizon. However, LJCD had trouble getting the offense going and kicked the ball around a bit, losing 7-1.
On Saturday, Sam Wisenberg and Reese combined to throw another great game against Tri-City Christian in a 5-0 victory.
Sam Wisenberg went the first four and earned the win, and Reese threw the final three to earn the save.
Senior Tommy Morris had a big two-out, two-run single in the second inning to put the Torreys up for good. Campbell added a bases-loaded double in the fifth, while Reese had two doubles.
LJCD met Horizon on Tuesday, May 27, in its next CIF contest. The Torreys beat Horizon 12-3 to advance. As the Village News went to press May 28, the Torreys were scheduled to play Coronado at home.
Meantime, La Jolla High topped Brawley 4-0 in a special Memorial Day contest, as Wyatt Hoff tossed a no-hitter. Hoff extended his scoreless innings streak to 20 innings and improved his season record to 7-5.
Robbie Beathard went 3-for-3 with a run, RBI and a stolen base, while Peter Sefton went 1-for-3 with a home run, his school-record-tying seventh of the season. Zac Zlatic and Zach Tonks each had two hits in the win.
With the win, La Jolla’s record is now 20-9-1. It is only the second time in school history that the Vikings have won at least 20 games in consecutive seasons (1993-’94).
The victory earned La Jolla a trip to top-seeded El Capitan in an elimination game this past Tuesday, May 27. The Vikings hung tough and took the game to 10 innings before finally bowing to El Cap. El Capitan won 13-12 to advance to yesterday’s fourth round against Cathedral Catholic.
A win in that game would have moved La Jolla into Wednesday’s semifinals.
“Wyatt was outstanding today,” La Jolla High head coach Gary Frank said. “He’s been unstoppable down the stretch, and our offense swung the bats very well and we executed great all game long.”
In its opening playoff game last week against Cathedral Catholic, La Jolla fell 11-4.
La Jolla fell behind 2-0 but rallied back with two runs in the fourth. Jimmy Filter doubled home Trent Jemmett with the first run, and then Sefton followed with an RBI double to tie the game at 2-2. Cathedral went on to score six runs in the fifth to put the game away, as Patrick Christensen suffered his third loss of the season.
“We came out a little flat today, and you just can’t get away with that at this point of the season against a great team like Cathedral,” Frank noted.
The Bishop’s School fell to 12-12 with back-to-back losses in Division IV action.
The Knights dropped contests to Mater Dei (7-0) and Santa Fe Christian (8-4).