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Trabuco Hills baseball beats Dana Hills and its ace in league showdown

April 15, 2026

Trabuco Hills pitcher Brady Meade delivers a pitch against Dana Hills in a South Coast League baseball game in Mission Viejo on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

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MISSION VIEJO — Two teams that figured to play for the South Coast League title met for the first time Tuesday. One had its ace, and the other had an ace up its sleeve.

The ace belonged to Dana Hills, who trotted UCLA-bound junior Ryan See to the mound. But Trabuco Hills had an answer in Brady Meade. And when it was over, Trabuco Hills had defended its homefield advantage with a 3-2 victory.

Ranked No. 11 this week in the Orange County Top 25, the Mustangs (11-9 overall, 5-2 in league) are in first place in the South Coast League, while No. 16 Dana Hills dropped to 13-6, 2-2.

The teams play twice more this week, Wednesday at Dana Hills and Friday at Trabuco Hills.

For the Mustangs, getting a victory in the first game of the week was a huge relief. Dana Hills has, arguably, the league’s strongest pitching staff at the top end, but Meade matched See and got the victory, improving to 2-2 on the season.

“I wanted to attack them with my fastball, trust my defense, and our team played really good small ball and ended up getting a bunch of runs,” said Meade, who pitched 5 2/3 innings, allowed three hits with two strikeouts, two walks and a hit batter.

Left-hander Brady Meade pitched 5 2/3 innings for Trabuco Hills in a 3-2 victory over Dana Hills in the South Coast League on Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (Photo by Martin Henderson)

Trabuco Hills gave Meade the runs he needed with three in the bottom of the second.

The bottom of the order helped do the damage. Tyler Hill singled into left field, Cy Ohlwiler was safe on a sacrifice bunt, and the runners were bunted to second and third. Then No. 9 hitter Landon Pompey’s suicide squeeze scored Hill.

It was a phenomenal job by Pompey, who got the bunt down despite the pitch being nearly seven feet in the air.

Daniel Van De Kreeke followed with an RBI double to left field, and eventually scored on Slayder Garrido’s strikeout when the ball got away from the catcher, who then threw to first base for the out. Van De Kreeke was able to beat the return throw to the plate.

That was it. All the runs the Mustangs needed. But they weren’t out of the woods.

In the fifth inning, a walk and hit batter in the Nos. 6-7 spots in the order started a Dana Hills rally. A strikeout and ground out brought up the top of the order. An error on Aiden Desormiers’ sharp grounder allowed Tyler Van Duyne and Luke Blankenship to score. Ely Oleson’s sharp single knocked Meade out of the game with the go-ahead run at first base.

Reliever Amedeo Miller entered to face See, who drilled the ball and sent it flying toward center field, but Miller was able to snare it before it got past the mound.

Dana Hills had runners at first and second in the seventh, but the game ended on a ball hit to third base.

“We didn’t execute, didn’t perform defensively, and we didn’t run the bases well,” Dana Hills coach Tom Faris said. “That’s why we lost. All the fundamentals. We beat ourselves. … It wasn’t baseball.”

Trabuco Hills coach Brent Lavoie spoke highly of his team’s grittiness to pull through.

“They had guys on the bases, we had guys on the bases,” he said. “When the pitching had to kick in during some really leverage moments, it did. I thought Brady Meade did a phenomenal job and Amedeo Miller out of the bullpen was phenomenal, being able to hang on and get that last out and the save for us.”

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