Baseball struggles with tough league competition

With a difficult season, boys baseball continues to persevere and attempt to make the best of what’s left.

Overall, the boys faired well, with strong wins here and there. Toward the end of the season, the boys suffered against San Marcos, losing both games.

According to senior Dennis Bowman, the games against San Marcos are what killed the winning momentum of the team.

“We got swept by San Marcos,” Bowman said. “They killed us. When we play as a team we do well, but when we have one thing going right in one area and something going wrong in a different area it doesn’t work.”

In the previous set of games against of Oceanside, the boys won one and lost one. They lost the first game, 2-1, and won the next face-off 6-5.

It was a similar situation for the games against Valley Center, the Sundevils won one and lost one.

However, this time around, the boys won the first game, 5-4, and lost the second game, 6-4.

“We really should have won all those games,” junior Brad Catcottt said. “They were all really close games and there were a lot of silly mistakes. If we could take them back we could have won.”

In the Tuesday game against Westview, the boys lost 8-7.

Junior Wesley Wallace had a succesful game, hitting two home runs.

“When I’m at the plate I am looking for a pitch I can drive,” Wallace said. “It’s exciting to get a hit and it’s cool to see the crowd all excited.”

Unfortunately, a series of errors and strong Westview hitting caused the game to slip from the Sundevil side in a single inning.

“We mentally weren’t focused and didn’t play to our full ability,” Wallace said.

“We didn’t play to our potential,” sophomore Kenny James-Sansone said. “We beat ourselves through our errors. There was one inning where they scored all their runs and if we had done damage control we could have won.”

The team also played the Wolverines on Thursday; however results were unavailable at press time.

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