The La Jolla High varsity baseball team (14-10, 3-7) split a pair of Western League games versus Madison last week. Patrick Christensen out-dueled Madison’s Jeff Bradford in a pitcher’s battle that ended with a Kyle Zimmer walk-off home run in the bottom of the eighth inning, as La Jolla won 2-1. Christensen threw all eight innings, allowing only one run and striking out five. Zimmer was 2-for-3, including the winning home run. Zac Zlatic had two hits and Yoshi Rothman drove in the other run for the Vikings. La Jolla’s defense sagged in the second game of the week as four Viking errors led to five unearned runs and a 7-4 loss to Madison. Dustin Ouellette was the hard-luck loser for La Jolla. Ouellette, Zimmer and Aaron Steigerwalt all had two hits. “This week was very indicative of our entire season,” La Jolla High head coach Gary Frank said. “When we play good defense, we are one of the better teams around. However, when we lose our defensive focus and make errors, we usually lose the game. We just have to find a way to prepare ourselves to play good defense every time out.” La Jolla High split a pair of Western League games recently with University City (UC) High. La Jolla scored single runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to come from behind and defeat UC 3-1 in the week’s first game.  Christensen tossed a complete game while improving his season record to 4-2. Bradley Zimmer had a pinchhit, RBI single to put the Vikings up for good in the sixth, while Robbie Beathard singled to drive in Ouellette in the seventh to add an insurance run. In the second game of the week, University City jumped out to an 8-0 lead in the first two innings and then held off a La Jolla comeback to win 8-5.  UC benefited from two walks and two errors in the top of the second inning, which led to three unearned runs, proving to be the difference in the game.  Greg Cohen and David Washington led UC with a pair of RBIs. Jonas Noack picked up the victory, while Guillermo Adame was credited with the save. Ouellette pitched six innings of scoreless relief and went 3-for-4 with a double at the plate for La Jolla. n