On Tuesday, El Toro faced Foothill, their traditional main competitor for top honors in the Sea View league, and today they faced Trabuco Hills, their local, neighborhood rival (schools are 3 miles apart). With boys and families on each side knowing one another (and many having grown up playing on the same teams), this is always a fun game.
Final:
El Toro - 6
THHS - 3
Both sides were fired up to start the game (beautiful game time temps in the high 60's) and a large vocal crowd on hand. Some Mustang "yahoo's" were in the crowd with painted chests and doing chants and what not, but that just made it all the more sweet to get the "W" (and truthfully I loved the team and school spirit, I'm just having fun here).
El Toro came out in the top of the first with a triple by James Meager, rbi ground out by Gavin Collins, triple by Matt Le Vert and a single by Logan Roberts to put the Chargers up 2-0.
Ricky Schafer was on the mound again for ET and he cruised through the first 2 innings going 1, 2, 3. However in the 3rd, Trabuco threatened when with 2 outs, a double got ripped to left field. Schafer worked the next batter and got him to ground into a harmless ground out.
It stayed 2-0 till the the 5th, when after a pitching change, the Chargers struck again. Devin Schaefers lead off with a single and proceeded to steal second. Brian Graves then beat out a bunt and when the throw to first was off the mark, Devin kept rounding 3rd and scored making it 3-0. In the 6th, almost the same identical play happened. Mitch Tolman singled, stole second and scored on a swinging bunt by Meager. 4-0 Chargers. In the bottom half of the 6th, the Mustangs finally put together some hits and after a base on ball, back to back doubles and a sac fly to center, we had a 4-3 ball game, "MO" had turned and the "yahoo's" cranked up the chanting....... Oh to be 15 again.
In the 7th though, the Chargers responded with Schaefers singling, Andrew Kincade walked and Jayson Yano ripped one to right center driving in 2. Tolman followed with a suicide squeeze giving us the 6-3 final.
On the day, Schafer was phenomenal on the mound. His fastball had good movement and it was the best he's thrown his off speed stuff all year. Great outing by him.
With the win, the Chargers extend their winning streak to 5 and pushed their overall record to 9-3 (5-0 Sea View League).
Next week, they play in the Foothill tournament with games against Claremont, Beckman, El Modena and Villa Park. First up is a Monday noon time clash against Claremont (at Foothill High School).
Go Chargers!
Bill
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Thanks Bill!
Cheryl
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