Laguna Surf and Sport rolls onward
Mike Sciacca
Laguna Surf and Sport collected three more victories in postseason
play as they beat Sportsworld, 19-5, Rotary, 13-2, and Hobie, 6-2.
Caine Fair opened up Surf and Sport’s scoring onslaught with a
three-run home run in the first inning. His knock scored both Dalton Sype
and Michael Tachovsky, each of whom singled.
Singles by Christian Bosworth and John Wes Robinson set up Shane
Snyder’s two-RBI double.
Surf and Sport tagged on four more runs in the second inning as Alex
Garakian, Sype and Tachovsky all singled, Fair delivered an RBI double,
Bosworth hit an RBI single, and Robinson joined the home run club by
smashing a two-run shot over the center field fence to bring the score to
8-1.
Philip Le Bon’s double in the third frame scored Matt Miller and Jaime
Melchor, both of whom singled. Sype concluded the inning’s scoring with
an RBI single.
In the Surf and Sport fourth Fair and Bosworth racked up third third
hits of the game with a double and single, respectively, and walks by
Robinson and Miller forced home a run.
The scoring continued with Nikko Okomoto-Coen’s RBI ground out and a
single by Melchor and a fielding error led to three more runs.
Surf and Sport scored its final four runs in the fifth inning on an
RBI single by Fair, an RBI by Robinson and a two-run single by Snyder.
Sportsworld had taken a 1-0 lead in its first at-bat on Joe Meehan’s
RBI single. They scored four runs in the fourth inning behind a double by
Shane Springer, a single by Meehan, an RBI double by Taylor Brusky, a
two-run scoring double by James Borgesy, who later stole home.
Tachovsky notched the pitching win, gaining 10 strikeouts.
In other games:
Surf and Sport 13, Rotary 2
Surf and Sport’s Michael Tachovsky broke open a scoreless game with a
third inning RBI single, which scored Jaime Melchor for a 1-0 lead. Chris
Bosworth then padded the lead to 3-0 with a two-run double, and John Wes
Robinson’s towering, three-run home run off the outfield scoreboard upped
the advantage to 6-0.
Rotary retaliated in the top-half of the fourth when Roy Herbert’s
single scored Nick Witte and Chris Smith delivered an RBI to trim the
deficit to 6-2.
Surf and Sport went up, 10-2 with a four-run fourth. Bosworth hit his
fourth home run of the year in an inning that also saw Matt Miller steal
home and Shane Snyder hit a run-scoring double.
Dalton Sype, Cain Fair and Bosworth all scored in the fifth inning to
put the score at 13-2.
Laguna Surf & Sport 6, Hobie 2
Cain Fair belted a three-run home run and picked up an RBI single,
Nikko Okomoto-Coen had an RBI single and John Wes Robinson had an RBI to
power Surf & Sport.
Outstanding play in the field backed the pitching performance of
Michael Tachovsky, who went the distance and notched the win.
Rotary 11, American Legion 5
Austin Hyden limited American Legion to just five hits and struck out
11 along the way.
Hyden also was a force at the plate as he ripped three singles and had
two RBI.
Nick Witte, Hyden and Chris Smith produced doubles and Lorenzo
Torriero and Roy Herbert hit singles in the third inning as Rotary wiped
out a 3-1 deficit and took a 6-3 lead.
Witte also had a two-run single in the fourth inning.
Hyden, Torriero and Herbert all had key hits in the fifth inning to
make it an 11-4 game.
Jordan O’Brien singled twice for American Legion and scored his team’s
final run when Max Parmentier singled him home with two out in the sixth
inning.
Dylan McDonald, Jake Killian and Smith all singled for Rotary.
American Legion’s Julian Deline pitched well with nine strikeouts. In
addition to O’Brien’s two hits, Michael Porter and William Burk each
singled to help American Legion take a 3-1 lead in the third inning.
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