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    Laguna Beach defeats Woodbridge in Pacific Coast League baseball
    • March 22, 2025

    LAGUNA BEACH — It was a matchup of two fine pitchers, both throwing very well.

    Laguna Beach senior right-hander Becker Sybirski got just enough run support in his complete-game, 2-1 win over Woodbridge on Friday in a Pacific Coast League baseball game at Laguna Beach High.

    The Breakers, No. 23 in the Orange County top 25, are 10-0 overall and 4-0 in the eight-team league and have the most wins in county baseball. They were 10-17 last season

    No. 20 Woodbridge is 8-5 overall, 1-3 in league.

    Sybirski struck out 10 Warriors and walked only one. He gave up four hits. One of the Woodbridge runs was unearned.

    Four pitches are in Sybirski’s arsenal. He used all four of them effectively Friday.

    “One of our sayings on the team is ‘command all pitches,” Sybirski said. “So my goal every outing is to command not just my fastball – many people think that you just need to command your fastball – but if I can command my fastball, my curveball, my slider and my changeup, I’m going to do so much better. Just keep the hitters off guard.”

    Woodbridge right-handed pitcher Alex Johnson was impressive, too, Friday. He allowed five hits and one earned run over his six innings.

    The Breakers scored their runs in the second inning. Dane Jenal led off the inning and reached on an error. Jenal advanced to second base on Parker Moore’s ground ball that just eluded the diving effort of Woodbridge shortstop Nolan Stottlemyer for a single. Jackson Arrarsin’s sacrifice punt moved Jenal to third base and Moore to second. Dylan Yencho’s chopper up the middle kangaroo’d into center fielder to drive in Jenal and Moore, his sixth and seventh RBIs this season, for a 2-0 lead.

    Woodbridge scored its run in the top of the fourth. Stottlemyer smacked a one-out double off of the wall in left-center field, took third base on Caleb Camacho’s single to left field, and scored when Dylan Mutac reached on a fielder’s choice to make it 2-1. With Camacho on second base and Mutac on first Sybirski struck the next two Warriors to end the inning.

    The Warriors had Camacho on third base in the sixth but could not get him across. Sybirski finished strong, getting two strikeouts in the seventh inning.

    Sybirskis improved to 4-0, lowered his earned-run average to 0.83, and has 35 strikeouts in 25.1 innings.

    Laguna Beach coach Ryan Belanto said the Breakers players are not getting anxious about keeping that number “zero” in the loss column.

    “They’re having fun,” Belanto said. “We work hard in practice and we work hard in games. They’re having a great time out here.”

    ​ Orange County Register 

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