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    St. John Bosco baseball powers its way to sweep of Santa Margarita
    • April 18, 2026

    RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – St. John Bosco’s baseball team is loaded with outstanding athletes who know how to play baseball.

    That is a fierce mixture.

    The Braves displayed that again Friday in a 6-1 win over Santa Margarita to complete a sweep of the three-game series in the Trinity League.

    The Braves outscored Santa Margarita, 19-3, in the series.

    “The way we all operate together is just insane,” said St. John Bosco second baseman Jaden Jackson. “This is the same kind of team we’ve had for two years now.”

    Jackson contributed a three-run home run and senior left fielder Noah Beverly hit two solo home runs.

    St. John Bosco used six pitchers to limit Santa Margarita to five hits and one run, which came in seventh inning.

    St. John Bosco last season won Trinity League, CIF Southern Section Division 1 and CIF Southern California Regional Division I championships.

    This season the Braves are 16-5 overall and in first place in the Trinity League (8-1 record).

    St. John Bosco is No. 8 in the CIF-SS computer rankings that will be used to place teams into playoff divisions after the regular season. With Division 1 set to be a 16-team division, the Braves are almost assured of Division 1 placement.

    Santa Margarita (14-8 overall) is in fifth place in the six-team Trinity League with a 3-6 record. Their chance at a playoff berth is not zero, but is getting close to that.

    The Braves took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when Jhett Ohira scored on a fielder’s choice.

    Everly made it 2-0 with his first home run. The right-handed hitting Everly went opposite field, sending a high fly over the right-field fence.

    St. John Bosco coach Andy Rojo projected a great day for Everly.

    “He’s probably taken our best at-bats the last two weeks,” Rojo said. “I was talking to him before the game and I said, ‘Hey, Ev, you’re on it. I can feel it. Today’s the day.’

    Rojo was coaching third base, as usual, Friday.

    “When Ev rounded third he told me, ‘You’ve got it coach!” Rojo said.

    Jackson, the youngest child of former USC and NFL receiver John Jackson, belted a three-run home in the fourth inning for a 5-0 lead.

    Beverly pulled a line-drive just inside the left-field foul pole in the top of the seventh for his second home run to make it 6-0.

    Santa Margarita got its run in the bottom of the seventh on a sacrifice fly by senior Andre Owens.

    St. John Bosco has several college-signed  players: Jackson with UCLA; Beverly with Seattle University; Jack Champlin with UC Irvine; twins James and Miles Clark with Duke; Ohira with USC.

    The Braves are batting .297 as a team and have a team ERA of 1.16.

    St. John Bosco’s real strength, Jackson said, is team spirit.

    “This is our brand of baseball,” Jackson said. “We kind of play loose, free and happy. You’ll see smiles all around the field, and that’s what gets it done.”

    Santa Margarita plays a three-game league series next week against Orange Lutheran (15-3 overall, 4-2 in league) starting Tuesday at Santa Margarita.

    St. John Bosco, which beat Orange Lutheran twice in their three-game league series two weeks ago, plays at home against Servite on Tuesday.

     

    ​ Orange County Register 

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