{"id":274046,"date":"2019-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/pointers-diving-into-spring-league-titles\/"},"modified":"2019-05-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T07:00:00","slug":"pointers-diving-into-spring-league-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/pointers-diving-into-spring-league-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointers diving into spring league titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring sports have already wrapped up three league\u00a0championships \u00a0as league finals and CIF playoffs loom. BOYS BASEBALL<br \/>\nThe team wrapped up a third straight Eastern League title, going undefeated with two league games remaining. On a 17-game\u00a0unbeaten streak covering nearly two months, the team has risen to the fourth-ranked position of 20 CIF Div. II teams.<br \/>\nOverall, the team, under first-year head coach Jeff Solis, sports an outstanding 21-4-2 record for a .840 winning percentage, also winning the 6A division of the annual Mike Morrow Tournament.<br \/>\nThe team most recently pounded Coronado 11-2 on the Islanders&#8217; field, recording 14 hits, which included Hunter Otjen&#8217;s fourth home run and doubles by Anthony Hall (2), Duce Gourson and Hayden Tregidga.<br \/>\nAce pitcher Austin Curtice, an SDSU commit, earned the win with one walk and seven strikeouts in 5 innings.<br \/>\nThe team&#8217;s batting average has risen to a season-high .294 with 80 extra base hits including 14 home runs. The team is scoring at a rate of 5.6 runs per game and yielding only 2.8. BOYS GOLF<br \/>\nPointer linksters just wrapped up their fourth consecutive league title.<br \/>\nThe team posted a 12-0 mark in Western League play while going 15-3 overall, finishing the season ranked 13th of all CIF schools. Within their own Div. II, the Pointers were ranked fifth.<br \/>\nCoach Joe Rodriguez and his team play nine-hole matches against opponents at numerous local courses. Following play, the lowest five scores are added up to give\u00a0the team score for the match.<br \/>\nIn the City League 18-hole tournament held April 30 at Balboa, the Pointers took first with top scores from Jackson Moss (40, 39), Adam Moss (40, 43) and Riley Wagstaff (40, 43).<br \/>\nJackson Moss, a junior, was the medalist, or low scorer, in 17 of the team&#8217;s matches.<br \/>\nTeam members are freshmen Matt Teixera and\u00a0Benjamin Miller, sophomores Nicholas Burchett, Alex Clementson, John Burrell, Owen Robertson and Adam Moss, younger brother of Jackson.<br \/>\nJuniors are Brandon Lord and Jackson Moss, while the team&#8217;s only seniors are Sean Rosier and Wagstaff. TRACK AND FIELD<br \/>\nMore than 30 Pointer athletes qualified for the CIF championship meet based on their performance at the Western League finals last week.<br \/>\nThe boys and girls teams, both under head coach Keith DeLong, saw the boys go undefeated during the dual meet season.<br \/>\nIn results from the Eastern League finals senior Altan Mitchell and sophomore Jordyn Duby, each took first place in two events.<br \/>\nMitchell won the boys long jump with a leap of 23 feet, 5 inches. He also won the triple jump with a mark of 46 feet, 7.5 inches. He won by almost three feet over the second-place finisher.<br \/>\nMitchell beat this winning mark earlier during a dual meet with Mira Mesa on the Pointer track. He turned in a score of 48 feet, 6 inches, which is 2.5 inches short of the best in California this year.<br \/>\nJunior Travis Lewis won the high jump, soaring over the bar at 6 feet, 2 inches. His teammates took the next four places with\u00a0scores of 5 feet, 8 inches or better.<br \/>\nLong distance veteran Hunter Sweet, a senior, won the 1600 meter run with a time of 4:25.69.<br \/>\nOn the girls side, Duby&#8217;s two wins were in distance events. She crossed the finish line first in the 1600 meter run with a time of 5:12.57. In the 3200 meter run she also defeated all others with a\u00a0time of 11:21.14.<br \/>\nJunior Sadie Heckman was first in the triple jump with a leap of 36 feet, 1 inch. Her teammates took seven of the first eight places in this event.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring sports have already wrapped up three league\u00a0championships \u00a0as league finals and CIF playoffs loom. BOYS BASEBALL The team wrapped up a third straight Eastern League title, going undefeated with two league games remaining. On a 17-game\u00a0unbeaten streak covering nearly two months, the team has risen to the fourth-ranked position of 20 CIF Div. 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