Santa Margarita Versus El Toro - Game 5

Santa Margarita - 8

El Toro - 7

I think the impending time change effected El Toro's inner clock as they had a hard time early before eventually making a game of it.

In the first, the Eagles used 3 singles, a double and 3 Charger errors to put up 6 runs. The bad news was the 6 runs, the good news was El Toro had 7 innings to come back and they used every single one.....

They chipped away putting up a run an inning on timely hits by Matt Le Vert, Jayson Yano, Logan Roberts and Devin Schaefers. They closed to 6-5 in the 5th and had the bases loaded with 1 out, but a strike out and an out on an attempt at stealing home sent us to the 6th.

The Eagles used two walks and a hit to push one across and were attempting more when Jayson Yano came in and got the last 2 outs to send us to the bottom of the 6th. Santa Margarita got the 1st 2 outs and were looking to be out of the inning when Yano hustled down the 1st base line to capitilize on a bobbled ball at 1st. That brought up Mitchell Tolman and on the next pitch he promptly deposited it over the right field fence giving us a tie game for the first time on the day since 0-0.

Santa Margarita didn't let the change in momentum effect them and they loaded the bases in the top of the 6th and got a single to right field to go back in the lead. El Toro wasn't able to answer going 1, 2, 3 in the bottom of the 7th ending one of the more exciting games of the young season.

With the loss, that ends the Garden Grove Tournament giving El Toro a record of 3 up and 2 down on the year. Next week is a busy one as they travel to Laguna on Tuesday for a 3:15pm game against Laguna Hills. They come back on Wednesday and try to avenge last weeks loss to San Clemente, before finally kicking off their league season on Friday away against Northwood High School.

Bill