{"id":303701,"date":"2010-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/sluggers-look-to-make-new-season-a-hit\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T07:00:00","slug":"sluggers-look-to-make-new-season-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/sluggers-look-to-make-new-season-a-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sluggers look to make new season a hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As winter turns to spring, area high school baseball teams have designs on CIF gold this season. At La Jolla Country Day School, Torreys head coach John Edman finished 6-20 (3-5 Coastal League) a season ago. Key returnees this season include Connor Gerhart (third base); Anthony Torres (catcher\/infielder); Jason Gilberg (outfield\/pitcher); Frank Brown (outfield); Sam Ayala (catcher\/infielder); JT Kelley (first base); Roman Valenzuela (designated hitter); Keith Gordon (pitcher); Mac Anderson (pitcher); Ruben Pena (pitcher) and Anthony Torres (pitcher). Top newcomers include Ian Lutz (pitcher); Jonathan Brewster (infielder); Tommy Edman (infielder); Dustin Hughes (pitcher\/outfielder) and Alex Guenette (catcher). At La Jolla High School, Vikings head coach Gary Frank went 16-14 last spring, losing in the CIF quarterfinals. Key players in 2010 include Zac Zlatic (shortstop\/pitcher); Jake Linsky (outfielder\/pitcher); Aaron Steigerwalt (catcher); Max Strohl (pitcher\/first base) and Kevin Usselman (shortstop\/second base). &#8220;We have a very young team this year,&#8221; Frank said.\u00a0&#8220;We return only one varsity win on the mound, but we should have a strong infield defense and a scrappy offense.\u00a0If we can find consistency at pitcher, we should be able to compete in the Western League.&#8221; At The Bishop\u2019s School, Knights head coach Al Gomez finished 13-10-1 (5-3 Coastal South League) last season. Top players this season include Chris Ludwig, AJ Chedrick, Jesse Jacobsen-Gal, Doron Volcani, Kyle Gantz and Joey Moreno. &#8220;We are looking to compete for a Coastal South League title behind All-League seniors Chris Ludwig and AJ Chedrick,&#8221; Gomez said. &#8220;I look for Kyle Gantz and Joey Moreno to have breakout seasons both at the plate and on the field. Seniors Jesse Jacobsen-Gal and Doron Volcani will also have key roles in the Knights\u2019 success. Newcomers Wes Fishburn, Connor Sears and John Manhard will have a big impact on the team this season.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As winter turns to spring, area high school baseball teams have designs on CIF gold this season. At La Jolla Country Day School, Torreys head coach John Edman finished 6-20 (3-5 Coastal League) a season ago. Key returnees this season include Connor Gerhart (third base); Anthony Torres (catcher\/infielder); Jason Gilberg (outfield\/pitcher); Frank Brown (outfield); Sam [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"Sluggers look to make new season a hit","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11560,11593,11553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-jolla-village-news","category-no-images","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}