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    Cypress baseball handling the pressure of close games, extra innings
    • March 11, 2025

    Cypress has played seven baseball games. Four of them have been one-run games, including the last two that were extra-inning games.

    “I think I need a raise,” said Cypress coach John Weber.

    Cypress got a 6-5 win over Foothill on Monday in a 10-inning game. Greg Prophett led off the bottom of the 10th with a double. He went to third base on Gary Hennessy’s single and scored on Landon Anderson’s bunt.

    In their prior game, the Centurions defeated El Modena 1-0 in nine innings. The game before that was a 1-0 win over Villa Park.

    Cypress, which battled Pacifica and others in the Empire League for many years, is in the Crestview League this season with El Dorado, El Modena, Foothill and Villa Park. Of the latter four, El Dorado, Foothill and Villa Park have been Crestview Leaguers for several years, with El Modena sometimes with them and sometimes in the North Hills League.

    This week’s Orange County Top 25 has Cypress (4-3 overall, 2-0 in league) at No. 6, Foothill (6-2, 2-1) at No. 7, Villa Park (5-2, 0-2) at No. 8 and El Dorado (6-2, 1-1) at No. 11. El Modena (1-6, 0-2) has struggled, but four of those losses are by one run and another by two runs.

    Every player who threw a varsity inning for Cypress last year is back this season, led by seniors Aiden Franco and Wyatt Rosales. Juniors Nick Nelson and Drew Slevcove and sophomores Tate Belfanti and Tyler Kaufman have contributed.

    Weber raves about junior catcher Noah Johnson.

    “He’s been a soldier back there,” Weber said. “He’s been beat up. He gets  a ball off of his mask or off his shoulder, off his arm, off his hand and he keeps grinding every inning.”

    NOTES

    Cypress and JSerra play each other in two nonleague games next week, March 19 at Cypress and March 21 at JSerra. In the past, that would have been a doubleheader because a doubleheader used to count as one game date toward the maximum of 28 games for a CIF Southern Section baseball team. Now, a doubleheader counts as two games so something like Cypress-JSerra now is spread over two days. …

    Mater Dei might have its best baseball team in a few years. The Monarchs are 6-0. In their most recent win, 13-5 over Bishop Gorman of Las Vegas, senior pitcher/infielder Brandon Thomas struck out eight over five innings and had two hits, and Dylan Wetzel hit a grand slam and finished with six RBIs. …

    Los Alamitos went into this week 5-0-2 and one of only five undefeated Orange County baseball teams through last week’s games. The Griffins have seven players tied for the team lead in hits with five each. Among them are senior right fielder Kaden Carrion, who has a team-high seven RBIs, and senior utility player Sutton Deninno, who has six RBIs. …

    Godinez senior pitcher Mark Aguilar has 32 strikeouts in 18 2/3 innings. Saddleback’s Diego Enriquez has 31 strikeouts in 23 innings. Newport Harbor’s Gavin Guy has struck out 30 batters over 18 innings. …

    Guy held Aliso Niguel to one run in six innings Monday in Newport Harbor’s 2-1 win. Aliso Niguel is No. 12 in this week’s Orange County Top 25 that has Newport Harbor at No. 23. …

    Newport Harbor junior Gavin Guy allowed only one run over six innings as the Sailors defeated Aliso Niguel 2-1 in a nonleague baseball game Monday, March 10. (Photo by Martin Henderson)
    Newport Harbor junior Gavin Guy allowed only one run over six innings as the Sailors defeated Aliso Niguel 2-1 in a nonleague baseball game Monday, March 10. (Photo by Martin Henderson)

    Laguna Beach junior infielder Lincoln Adams is 11 for 17 for a .647 batting average. Senior outfielder/pitcher Lucien Reed has eight RBIs. The Breakers are 6-0 going into Wednesday’s scheduled Pacific Coast League opener against Irvine at Laguna Beach High. …

    Upcoming high school baseball games at Angel Stadium — weather permitting — include: Mission Viejo vs. Newport Harbor, Thursday, 3:30 p.m.; Whittier Christian vs. Garfield, Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Fullerton vs. Villa Park, Monday, 3:30 p.m.; Segerstrom vs. California, March 28, 6:30 p.m. …

    The Orange County All-Star Baseball Game is June 4 at Great Park in Irvine.

     Orange County Register 

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