HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP : Coronado Makes the Bigger Hits, Outlasts Marian, 19-16, in Nine

The scoring resembled a volleyball match, but this was high school baseball.

In the end, Coronado outlasted Marian, 19-16, in nine innings Wednesday at Marian in both schools’ City Harbor League opener.

“I hope we don’t have another one like that for a long time,” Marian Coach George Milke said.

Just for fun, the scores--with Coronado’s listed first--were 3-0, 3-4, 4-4, 4-7, 9-7, 9-12, 14-12, 15-12, 15-15 in the regulation seven innings.

Coronado then scored in the top of the eighth--Scott Dickerson driving in a run with a double--to go up, 16-15. But Marian came back when Beto Martinez drew a walk with two outs and bases loaded in the bottom of the inning.

Coronado put it out of reach in the top of the ninth with three runs, two of them coming on a single by Dickerson.

Dickerson and Martinez had remarkably similar remarkable games.

Each had six RBIs, including a two-run home run and two doubles. Dickerson was five for six, Martinez four for four with two walks.

Coronado improved to 4-5-1, 1-0. Marian, which lost its fourth in a row, fell to 6-5-1, 0-1.

Another City Harbor game:

St. Augustine 16, Christian 3--St. Augustine (7-5, 1-0) scored five in the first, and four in the second and third innings to rout Christian (2-6, 0-1) at Hickman Field. Four Saints--Justin Williams, Roger Alvarez, Jeremy Klem and John Mozerko--had two hits and two RBIs. Mozerko had a home run. Dominic Jiammarinaro also had two RBIs with a triple.

Mike Kirkpatrick was two for three with two RBIs for the Patriots (2-6, 0-1).

City Central League

Lincoln 13, Hoover 7--Tobias Price (2-2) struck out six in three innings of relief for Lincoln (6-6, 1-0). At the plate, Price was two for three, including a solo homer in the fifth.

Andre Douglas, the second leading hitter in the county, went two for four with two RBIs for Lincoln. Hoover is 1-11, 0-1.

San Diego 5, Crawford 2--All seven runs were unearned as Crawford made six errors and San Diego four. Carlos Rivera went two for three with two RBIs and Jody Finnerty two for two with two runs scored for San Diego (10-4-1, 1-0).

Freshman pitcher Frank Guzman (4-1) won in relief and sophomore Jacque Jones earned the save. Miguel Maldonado went three for four with one RBI for Crawford (4-8, 0-1).

City Eastern League

Point Loma 7, Patrick Henry 5--Josh Serrano went three for four with two RBIs and one run scored for Point Loma (7-7, 1-0). Patrick Henry, playing its first game in four weeks because of the spring rains, fell to 1-6, 0-1.

Serra 17, Morse 9--Jim White went three for five with a double and seven RBIs for Serra (11-4-1, 1-0). Also for the Conquistadors, Danny Wasilauski went two for three with a triple and three runs scored, and J.T. Hooks went two for five with three RBIs. Morse is 4-7, 0-1.

City Western League

USDHS 9, Kearny 7--USDHS Coach Dick Serrano found few redeeming qualities in this game, saying the 11 errors the teams’ combined for could have been much higher. But Aaron Blair went two for three and drove in two runs for USDHS (10-5, 1-0), and teammate Gavin Millay was two for four with one RBI. Kearny fell to 3-8-1, 0-1.

University City 3, La Jolla 2--Pat Cottrell hit a two-out single to drive in the tying and winning runs for University City (9-3, 1-0). Mike Saipe (5-0) went the distance and had nine strikeouts for University City. La Jolla is 8-3, 0-1.

Metro Conference

Castle Park 2, Mar Vista 0--Castle Park’s Vico Moreno and Mar Vista’s Rickey Quinones both pitched one-hitters. Moreno struck out 12 batters and Quinones 10.

Castle Park scored an unearned run in the first inning and got an insurance run in the sixth when Victor Ryan’s single drove in Benji Gil.

No. 7 Castle Park improved to 12-3, 3-0. Mar Vista fell to 5-6, 0-4.

Montgomery 9, Hilltop 1--Luis Contreras hit a two-run double in the second inning to cap a four-run rally that gave second-ranked Montgomery a 6-0 lead. That was more than enough for sophomore left-hander Pedro Ramirez, who yielded only two hits and had nine strikeouts in a complete game for the Aztecs (12-1-1, 4-0). Ramirez improved to 4-0.

Hilltop, the county’s eighth-ranked team, fell to 7-3-1, 2-2.

Chula Vista 3, Bonita Vista 1--Cesar Martinez (4-1) pitched a four-hitter to lead Chula Vista (6-7, 2-1). Jorge Millan and Mike Daniels combined on a five-hitter in a losing cause for Bonita Vista (1-8, 1-3).

Nonleague

Clairemont 8, Mission Bay 7--Clairemont (5-5-1) snapped Mission Bay’s six-game winning streak. Danny Langford went three for three with three RBIs to lead the Chieftains.

Also for Clairemont, Antoine Henry went two for three with three runs scored and in his first varsity appearance. Sophomore Jeremy Karlovitz went two for four.

No. 6 Mission Bay, which won last week’s City Conference tournament, fell to 10-4.