LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

The Mavericks beat Poway 8-4 to advance to the second round of the double elimination tournament on Thursday at Rancho Buena Vista. In last year's CIF Playoffs Poway edged the Mavericks 4-3. This year Tyler Ryan limited the Titans to 3 runs through six innings to pick up his tenth win of the year against no losses. Paul Oseguera led the offense with 3 for 3 performance, while Casey Sterk, Andrew Nacario and Will Stoffel each added two hits apiece, and Nick Diehl knocked in two runs in the bottom of the 5th inning when the Mavs scored 4 times to put the game out of reach. Andrew Logan pitched the 7th inning, allowing one run on a single two walks and an infield ground ball out before he settled in to strike out the final two Poway batters to close out the game. The defensive highlights included a sliding catch in foul territory by Joey Burke and a diving catch of a sinking line drive in right field by Casey Sterk. On Thursday May 23rd the Mavs travel to play second ranked Rancho Buena Vista at their field, with a 4:00 start time.

The top four seeds for the 2002 playoffs: No. 1 Montgomery No. 2 Rancho Buena Vista No. 3 La Costa Canyon No. 4 Rancho Bernardo The next eight seeds which play on Monday May 20th to determine which four join the Double Elimination part of the CIF PLAYOFFs No. 5 Granite Hills No. 6 Fallbrook No. 7 Mt. Carmel No. 8 Valhalla No. 9 Torrey Pines No.10 Chula Vista No.11 Poway No.12 San Diego La Costa Canyon (No.3) is in the same bracket with No. 2 seeded Rancho Buena Vista. The No.1 seeded Montgomery is in the same bracket with No.4 seeded Rancho Bernardo. La Costa Canyon will play at home on Tuesday May 21st at 3:30pm against the winner of the Monday game between Fallbrook and Poway. Rancho Buena Vista will play the winner of the Mt.Carmel v Chula Vista game. On Thursday May 23rd the team with the highest seed will be the home team. The two playoff brackets can be found at the CIF San Diego Section web site: cifsds.org/default/playoffs/

Although the Mavericks had much earlier clinched their 4th Avocado League Championship in the last 5 years, San Marcos edged the Mavs 3-2 to hand the Mavericks (13-1) their sole league loss. San Marcos (5-9, and 12-16 overall crawled into a third place finish, ahead of El Calmino and Carlsbad which finished at 4-10. The Mavs spotted San Marcos a 3-0 lead after three innings before getting an rbi single by Oseguera in the 4th inning and a solo home run by Burke in the 6th inning. San Marcos limited the Mavs to only three hits as their defense played a flawless game and several hard hit line drives went right to a San Marcos player. Johnny Zepeda(3-3)was charged with the loss for the Mavs, but yielded only 3 runs on 8 hits, 2 strike outs and walked only 1 batter.

The Mavericks maintained their quest for a perfect Avocado League mark with a 9-4 win over the El Camino Wildcats. Paul Oseguera led the offense with a 4 for 4 performance, two singles, one double and his 6th home run of the year. Jackson Chapelone hit another home run over the hill in the right center field gap and knocked in a total of 3 runs, while Will Stoffel was 3 for 3 with two singles and a double, and Nick Diehl and Andrew Nacario each collected two hits. Three LCC pitchers struck out 14 Wildcats and allowed only 4 runs on 6 hits. Andrew Logan got the start and went 3 innings, allowing 2 runs and striking out 5. Tyler Ryan pitched the 4th and 5th innings, allowing no runs, on one hit and striking out 6, while getting credit for his 9th win of the year against no losses and 2 saves. Brian Brehm finished up the game yielding only 2 runs on 3 hits.

1. Bishop Amat (23-2) 2. La Quinta (25-2) 3. Mission Bay (25-3) 4. Rancho Buena Vista (24-4) 5. Camarillo (25-4) 6. Wilcox (30-3) 7. Rancho Bernardo (24-5) 8. La Costa Canyon (25-4) 9. Arcadia (22-3) 10. Crescenta Valley (22-3)