LA COSTA CANYON HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

Poway handed Chico his first loss in a 7-0 win over Fallbrook.

The Mavericks scored two runs in the bottom of the 7th as with two outs Nick Diehl doubled over the left fielder's head to score Brian Brehm and Paul Oseguera who was pinch running for Jackson Chapelone. Casey Sterk beat out an infield single but Will Stoffel flyed out to deep right-center field to end the game. Adam Burns pitched a strong 5 and 1/3 innings before being relieved by Brian Brehm in the 6th. Brehm pitched 1 and 2/3 inninings, giving up no runs while working his way out of two jams. Casey Sterk led the Maverick offense going 3 for 3, with a triple and a lead off walk in the 6th, scoring the first run on Will Stoffel's double to right center. Andrew Nacario was 3 for 4, and Eric Stewart made a couple of nice plays in center.

San Marcos became the only team this year to take the season series from the Mavericks with their second win, 12-5. Trailing 4-2 in the 5th, with 2 outs,the Knights scored 9 times. Adam Burns pitched a strong 4 and two thirds innings yield only 1 earned run before he tired in the 5th inning. The Mavericks Eric Stewart singled, walked twice and scored twice. Andrew Nacario had a rbi triple, Brehm was 2 for 4 with 1 run scored,Stoffel had a 2 rbi double, and Matt Ryan was 2 for 2. Both San Marcos and La Costa Canyon look forward to participating in the first round of the CIF playoff on Tuesday May 22nd. Fallbrook will receive a first round bye.

Ryan Tyler pitched a complete game win over El Camino, yielding only 1 run on 5 hits while striking out 7 and walking none. Andrew Nacario went 3 for 3 with a walk, and scored twice. Lenny Berg tripled in a run, Chris Fuller singled, walked and scored twice, while Casey Sterk was 2 for 3. Matt Tyler singled and caught the entire game as part of the brother/brother battery.

El Camino stayed close and then beat La Costa Canyon 9-6 in 10 innings to drop the Mavericks out of first place in the Avocado League race. The Wildcats 3-20, 2-10 took a 5-4 lead with 3 unearned runs in the top of the 6th inning. The Mavericks tied the game in the bottom of the 6th. In the 8th inning El Camino took a 1 run lead but Chapelone got his second rbi on a sac fly in the bottom of the 8th. In the bottom of the 9th the Mavericks left the bases loaded. Brehm started and pitched 5 strong innings, Burns came in and pitched 3 innings, yielding only 1 earned run. With Burns out of innings the Mavericks looked to Freshmen call up Michael Kenney who pitched a scoreless 9th but in the 10th inning gave up a scratch single for one run and a double for 2 more before getting out of the jam. The Mavericks have two games remaining, Tues at El Camino and Thursday at home against San Marcos. Fallbrook hosts El Camino on Thursday for their final game of the year and a win would clinch the Avocado League title by one half game over the Mavericks. Wins over El Camino and San Marcos would help LCC with the CIF seeding committee.