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St. John Bosco baseball holds off Servite after a big first inning

April 23, 2026

AHAHEIM — The Servite baseball team was in a big hole before it even sent a batter to the plate in its Trinity League game against St. John Bosco on Wednesday at Servite High School.

The Friars gave up five runs in the first inning, but they produced three runs of their own in bottom half of the first.

Servite’s pitching was solid over the remaining innings, but the Friars couldn’t respond on offense and the Braves came away with a 6-3 victory.

The first-place Braves (18-5, 10-1) have won seven games in a row, including five in a row in the Trinity League. They are closing in on clinching the league title.

Servite, ranked No. 5 in Orange County this week, is in fourth place with four league games remaining. They play one more against the Braves and then three against Orange Lutheran.

“It came down to us not doing the small things when we needed to, not getting a big hit when we needed to,” Servite coach Shawn Gilbert said. “There was plenty of traffic on the bases all day on both sides. They did a better job managing the traffic than we did.”

Noah Everly, Moises Razo and Jhett Ohira each singled home a run and Aaron Garcia singled home two runs as the Braves sent up 10 batters to the plate in their first at-bat.

P.J. Becerra doubled in two runs and the Friars scored a run on an error to get to within two runs in their half of the first.

From there, both teams had opportunities but only the Braves were able to score one more run in the sixth, when Servite committed two errors on one play.

There was a bit of controversy in the third when Servite had a runner on first, Eli Rubel, with no outs.

The next batter, Josh Flores, hit a fly ball to left field and Everly made a shoestring catch, according to the umpires.

Rubel was running on the play and was doubled up when the ball was thrown to the first baseman.

Gilbert argued that none of the three umpires made the out signal on the ball hit to left. Rebel, not knowing whether the ball was caught, didn’t retreat back to first, Gilbert said.

So instead of two runners on with no outs, the Friars had nobody on base with two outs.

Kane Clark, the next hitter, grounded out to first for the final out.

“They didn’t call anything,” Gilbert said of the umpires. “That was the problem. So our guys moved up, assuming it was not caught. Then at the end, it was a double play and they said he caught it but you can’t wait that long to make the call. He (the left fielder) dove for the ball and it looked like he knocked it down and picked it up and threw it in.

“A play like that, you’ve got to call it. Is it a catch, or not a catch. But he never made a call. We had some momentum there and all of a sudden, it’s a double play.”

Gilbert added that the game wasn’t decided on that one play.

“We just didn’t do enough to put pressure on them,” he said. “That is what it came down to.”

Orange County Register

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St. John Bosco baseball holds off Servite after a big first inning

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