BASEBALL - Monrovia, Temple City and Pasadena Poly advance to Friday's quarterfinals

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Rasmussen, McKiernan don't start, but they finish strong ...

Tuesday's second-round games
Division III
Nogales 3, Alhambra 2, 10 innings
Division V
Temple City 3, Gabrielino 1
Monrovia 7, Campbell Hall 6, 8 innings
Division VI
Pasadena Poly 2, Desert Hot Springs 1
San Jacinto 5, Maranatha 2

92 Comments

Anonymous said:

They didn't have one - but they almost beat Pasadena HS this year.

Anonymous said:

Did SF win their playoff game?

anonymous said:

Hey wow! what did you get on your SAT? Why don't you tell me about these players backrounds since you know so much about them superstar.

Anonymous said:

Wow, SF is going to worse than I even though if those are the guys they are counting on next year. It is really shocking that a private school like SF not known for its academics can't do better athlete-wise.

Anonymous said:

Quote "SF should be move down to D-5" You bag on SF saying how bad they are yet you play in a lower Div. When SF plays teams from your Div. they slaughtered all of them but one. Then you say the only way SF can be competetive is to go DOWN to Div 5. Well Einstein according to your reasoning the play is horrible at Div 5 because you say SF is horrible and that's where they belong! The road to recovery starts with you admitting you're not the sharpest tool in the shed. I believe Carreon, Wong, Dean, Salzman and Gentile would take issue with your ignorant statement.

Anonymous said:

SF should be move down to D-5 where they can be competitive - maybe.
Can you imagine how bad they are going to be next year.

anonymous said:

Hey playoff results! These teams have made it to the quarter finals. Div IV: El Segundo a 2-0 winner over Rubidoux. Div V: Montclair Prep a 7-0 winner over Ontario Christian, Monrovia a 7-6 winner over Campbell Hall. Other scores, 4/11/07 SF 14-6 over El Segundo. 3/17/07 SF 13-4 over Campbell Hall. 3/24/07 SF 7-1 over Montclair Prep. Oh I forgot Crespi and Loyola from the Mission League are both in the QF's. So you guys are right SF stinks, so does the mission league. The Mission League should dissolve into Div. IV and V so we can be more competetive! Like one of the posters said we need to get ready for our softball game, just hope your team is in the other dugout mensa!

ANONYMOUS 9:20...DOES GABRIELINO TEACH ITS STUDENTS THAT KEYBOARDS CAN OUTPUT BOTH CAPS AND LOWER CASE OR ARE YOU JUST TOO LAZY TO DO IT?

RE: St. Francis whiners...I would suggest you petition the school to add even more weight rooms and indoor batting cages. Maybe a few classrooms can be gutted for this purpose. If the school just did more for its "student" athletes I'm sure success would come easily.

Anonymous said:

I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRADULATE GABRIELINO FOR HAVING A FANTASTICK SEASON. THEY FINISHED THE SEASON WITH 19 WINS, AND THEIR FIRST MVL CHAMPIONSHIP IN SCHOOL HISTORY. THEY WERE NOT PICKED IN OUR PAPER TO DO ANYTHING THIS SEASON, BUT SUPRISED US ALL. THEY HAD 10 JUNIORS, AND ONLY 4 SENIORS, IN WHICH ONLY ONE, DANNY MACIAS PLAYED EVERY GAME AT THIRD BASE. RICKY POKORNY WAS ALSO THEIR #2 PITCHER AND GOT IN THERE A LOT. WHAT I AM TRYING TO SAY HERE IS THAT THIS GABRIELINO TEAM COULD BE VERY DANGEROUS NEXT YEAR!! THEY GOT ALL 10 COMING BACK, ALONG WITH SOME REALLY GOOD UNDERCLASS MEN AS WELL. THERE IS A HOLE TO FILL AT THIRD BASE, BUT OTHER THAN THAT, THATS IT!! WATCH OUT FOR GABRIELINO NEXT YEAR TO MAKE SOME SERIOUS NOISE IN THE MVL, AND CIF!!!

Anonymous said:

Hey-leave the St. Francis Alverno Boys alone they have a tough mission league softball game to get ready for. And they have a football loss to Alemany coming up.

anonymous said:

hey mensa you're the one who's playing Div. 5 or 6. Why don't you show some GUTS and play Div. 2 & 3 before you make idiotic comments.

anonymous said:

Foothill Div II who beat SF last year in the Finals just lost 16-1 to CV, guess they stink too in your eyes. Their ace is at USC this year just like SF's Bergman is at Irvine. Next year when Rasmussen and Mckiernan are gone nobody on this blog wants to hear your crying! Like an earlier post pointed out, SF ate up Div. 5 & 6 teams. The scoreboard doesn't lie, a 61-11 run differential is quite embarrassing when you have the nerve to say a SF team is no good at all. Look in your own backyard for garbage you'll find plenty of it there!

Anonymous said:

st francis doesn't even have the guts to play local strong teams like Arcadia, CV or Burroughs and they are popping off about how bad they are. I think they would have finished below LC in the RHL.

Anonymous said:

st francis doesn't even have the guts to play local strong teams like Arcadia, CV or Burroughs and they are popping off about how bad they are. I think they would have finished below LC in the RHL.

Anonymous said:

let's not go crazy about St Fancis they have always been so-so in baseball - last year was the only year ever they have won the CIF in baseball.

anonymous said:

Let me get this straight SF. You have a great season last year, lose a tough one in the CIF finals, and the next year youre raggin on Maranantha, sad. Now your coach who led you there cant coach, now every valley player and team sucks, and the avg Mission league fastball is 96. SF had most of their team back and some very good players, but didnt get it done, go spew your bitterness at Chaminade or Crespi, not Gabrielino. Figure it out

Poly #44 said:

To add onto that, Salsbury's only two losses this year were to perennial powerhouse and Div III #1 seed Westminster La Quinta (26-2 overall, only lost 4-3 in a complete game effort) and Div VI #3 seed Beaumont (22-4 overall, had a shaky inning of relief). Salsbury rebounded to pitch a complete game, 3 hitter against Beaumont in a 3-1 win.

I would love to see San Jacinto and Salsbury in a championship showdown against Poly and Rasmussen - a matchup of the two top strikeout pitchers in the Southern Section. Now that would be a great game.

Poly #44 said:

"ya st francis had a bad year, but we are not saying the reason we lost is because a guy must have been throwing in the low 90s. you have no idea wat 90 looks like. that is slightly above average in mission league. my guess is the guy from san jacinto threw 80 tops. gimme a name and a college that is recruiting him then i will believe you."

Might want to do a little research before making a statement like that. B.J. Salsbury has already signed with and received a scholarship from UC Riverside, a baseball program ranked in the top 25 in every national ranking. As a RHP who's 6'2" 185 (as listed on maxpreps), I doubt he's throwing anything close to 80. Check out this article...sounds like he's quite a talent.

http://hsi.pe.com/schools/sanjacinto/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_hsi_feature_16.187d680.html

Anonymous said:

St francis is a fraud. SF lost to ND 7-5; Poly has won 12 games without Rasmussen pitching; at least the team TC beat actually made it to the playoffs. Last year with SF was a fluke - SF has returned to their rightful place lower end of the division 3 Mission League - a mediocre league at that. SF can't even beat the worst team in the Pacific League. SF bloggers stop embarrassing youself - image how bad you are going to be next year - very similiar to your basketball team.

Anonymous said:

So, according to the SF people, they are one of the top area teams but didn't make the play-offs. So does that mean that Gabrielino was the top team in the SGV before they made it to CIF this year?

anonymous said:

you people realize that you played poorly, got lucky, and have nothing positive to talk about. so all you do is hate on SF. here is a question, is there an allstar game that the SF boys will be playing in against the Poly and Monrovia kids? i really hope so just to show you that the best players in the area didnt even make the playoffs because the mission league is so good.

anonymous said:

If SF can'r beat Pasadena, HW and ND then they can't beat TC, Monrovia or Poly.
Good "Knight" Now!

first off they did beat notre dame you asshole. the bottom line is that today monrovia squeaked by a team that SF slaughtered and poly cant win without rasmussen pitching, and temple city beat a team 3-1 that has never been to the playoffs before. GIMME A BREAK YOU PEOPLE ARE SOO BLIND BY YOUR OWN BIAS. also, maranantha... SHUT UP! ya st francis had a bad year, but we are not saying the reason we lost is because a guy must have been throwing in the low 90s. you have no idea wat 90 looks like. that is slightly above average in mission league. my guess is the guy from san jacinto threw 80 tops. gimme a name and a college that is recruiting him then i will believe you.

Anonymous said:

why burbanksport why?

Anonymous said:

If SF can'r beat Pasadena, HW and ND then they can't beat TC, Monrovia or Poly.
Good "Knight" Now!

Anonymous said:

Fred J,
woops - soory about that Monrovia was one of the 2 best - TC was next - my bad.

Still sorry SF - quit making excuses - start working for next year or it will be even uglier thaan this year - you are losing your best players.

Anonymous said:

BurbankSports: your point?

burbanksports said:

Check this out- and they say parents don't shop their kids around.

Prep baseball: Girl uninterrupted
Little League sensation Sementelli set to play baseball in high school
BY LINDSEY CZARNECKI, Special to the Daily News
Article Last Updated: 05/21/2007 10:58:36 PM PDT


Every step along the way, Marti Sementelli has proved her critics wrong.

When they said she couldn't pitch successfully against the boys at Sherman Oaks-Encino Little League, she struck out more than 600 batters in six seasons.

When they questioned whether she could hit and field against the fellas, she played her position so cleanly and hit so well she was elected to numerous All-Star teams.

Now, as the 14-year-old phenom closes out her Little League career, she realizes her greatest challenge lies ahead.

It's one so big and so daunting it will make her recent achievements seem like, well, little league stuff.

Next year, Sementelli graduates to high school baseball. Everyone says she should ditch the sport and focus on softball. That's what girls are supposed to do when they get to that level.

But as Sementelli has shown time and again, she's no ordinary girl.

Softball will have to wait, maybe forever. Sementelli is going to stick with baseball.

"I feel like I can do it," she said. "I went to check it out. Me and my dad have been going (to games) and I feel like I can strike these guys out. I feel like I'll fit in."

Skeptics are warned to doubt


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her at their own risk. Sementelli is 9-0 pitching in the 13- to 15-year-old division at Sherman Oaks-Encino LL, helping to clinch a league title with a seven-inning 77-pitch performance. Her control was impeccable - she didn't allow a walk - while working from the standard 60-foot mound.
"I think she's more accurate than me, I have to work on that," marveled fellow teammate Walker Moses. "And she has way more pitches than me, she has like seven or six, and she's really consistent."

The question now is, can she keep it up when she gets to high school?

"I think she can definitely have success in high school playing baseball," said Rogg Collins, Sementelli's coach. "I think that because of the male vs. female anatomy the boys just get bigger and stronger, and when it comes to pitching it wouldn't surprise me if she was an effective varsity pitcher at some point. I think that her chances of moving beyond that are tough because she's not going to be able to throw an 80-mile-per-hour fastball that college coaches would be looking for."

And therein lies the rub. Sementelli might be risking a potential college softball scholarship to pursue her baseball dreams. That might not be biggest concern right now, but in one or two years she certainly will face that reality.

It was the decision Amanda Peek faced a few years ago when she chose baseball rather than softball at Crescenta Valley High. Peek had enjoyed a dominating youth baseball career, and in her mind the success would continue when she got to high school.

Peek insisted she had no intention of giving up baseball for softball, and even played two baseball seasons with the Falcons. However, just before her junior year she switched gears and took up softball.

Looking back, Peek said her decision had nothing to do with the resistance she encountered or puberty or the jump in competition. In fact, she still maintains she was good enough to play high school baseball.

However, she also knew softball offered a college scholarship, and that became the ultimate deciding factor.

Peek eventually earned a scholarship to Cal State Northridge, where she is a sophomore catcher. Peek, who hit 13 home runs this year for the Matadors, feels for Sementelli, and the emotional tug she is experiencing.

"When you're a freshman in high school or a sophomore in high school, you're not really thinking about college as much as you do your junior year," Peek said. "And as I was going into my junior year I thought `You know, this is what I need to do."'

Sementelli hasn't selected a high school yet, although she likes the program at Burbank. Her father Gary says he will move the family from North Hollywood if necessary so his daughter can attend any school she choses.

Gary gets a huge assist in Marti's career, throwing with her every day and getting a letter from the California Interscholastic Federation, assuring that Marti can continue to pitch and play with the boys in high school.

"I found that private and public schools at least have to allow girls to give it a try, that was the easy part," Gary said. "Every year will be different, but I feel pretty confident. I've had a lot of people come up to me, umpires and coaches, saying she's almost crazy if she doesn't keep it going."

Marti is regularly asked why she doesn't switch to softball, but much like Peek, it isn't even open to discussion.

"It's just not my sport, it's a totally different thing," Marti said. "Some people think it's the same sport but it's totally different, the bats, the ball, there's so many things. People say it's the same thing, then you try switching. It's like switching from ping pong to tennis, it's the same idea but way different."

To further complicate matters, Sementelli is primarily a pitcher, meaning any future decision to switch to softball will be much tougher. The differences between pitching a baseball and pitching a softball are vast - one is done overhand, the other underhand. Whereas baseball pitches move downward, softballs move upward. Sementelli would have to learn an entirely new craft on the fly, and at this point she's not willing to even think about it. Besides, she just likes baseball more than softball.

"If they're good enough they should play," Newbury Park High baseball coach Scott Drootin said of Sementelli and other girls who want to play baseball. "I would be excited about the idea ... I'm excited to see her play wherever she plays."

Sementelli looks forward to the challenge, and has a warning for any guys who think they'll get the best of her just because she's a girl.

"Get a bat up there and go see," she said.





anonymous said:

Quote" Sorry SF but it is true" Hey layoff SF and enjoy your own season. Yes SF lost their 1st game 4-3 to PHS. They also lost 5 league games by a total of 8 runs. They play Div III and you play Div V & Div VI. Yes SF is out but they beat the following playoff teams Duarte 15-2, Campbell Hall 13-4 & 7-2, Montclair Prep 7-1, Sierra Vista 13-1, & Div II Atascadero HS 6-2. I believe the run differential was 61-11 against these Div 2,5 & 6 playoff teams. Why don't you come up and play a little Div II or Div III ball and then spout your trash! Still wish you guys the best in the playoffs, just enough of the SF bashing already!

ScottG said:

Brian Dearth struck out 13 to get the win and Kyle MacDonald added two Ks in one inning of relief.

FredJ said:

Um, I think defending champion Monrovia is still alive too...

Anonymous said:

TC and Poly were the 2 best going into the season and they are the only 2 left standing. Sorry SF but it is true. Other teams like Gabrielino, Alhambra and Maranatha had great seasons! Congrats to them.

FredJ said:

Only teams left, Monrovia, Temple City and Pasadena Poly....
Monrovia is at St. Paul on Friday, Temple City will be on road, and not sure about Poly yet

Anonymous said:

Not that it matters but wasn't the Poly game 3-1?

Tom S said:

Maranatha lost to a very good San Jacinto, #2 ranked team, 5 to 2 to end their successful season. Minutemen, you played a great game. San Jacinto’s pitcher, Salsbury was throwing pitches that must have been in the low 90’s . I checked his stats and his season ERA is .700 and he pitched 80 innings. I don’t see how there will be any other match up then Poly v San Jacinto in the championship game. Poly, you’ll have your hands full.

Anonymous said:

Fred J: Thanks for the minute by minute updates! Waiting for the Maranatha update too!

Great job Curtis Cowell!

FredJ said:

Monrovia rallies to beat Campbell Hall, 7-6 in 8 innings. Curtis Cowell triple cashed in by Patrick Greene to win it for Wildcats..

FredJ said:

Nogales 3, Alhambra 2, 10 innings

sgv said:

Feess got the start for Poly and went 4 giving up 1 run. Rasmussen threw 3 innings to finish out the game. Poly faced Desert Hot Spring's ace. Poly's main problem is stranding baserunners. They must have left at least 10 men stranded today.

FredJ said:

Rasmussen pitched the fifth, sixth and seventh innings, and struck out nine straight to get the victory...

FredJ said:

Pasadena Poly, 2 Desert Hot Springs 1

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Temple City 3, Gabrielino 1...

Anonymous said:

Anon 10:47 not this year

Anonymous said:

I agree with Baseball Aficionado. I think the opponent that Monrovia faces today should not get overlooked or underestimated. They beat Robbie Rasmussen twice and are 3-0 vs. Poly.

Baseball Aficionado said:

Nothing against Monrovia, but they seem to be a one-trick pony with their UNLV bound pitcher. Yes, St. Francis is out of the play offs, but they come from a VERY RESPECTED league in which it features two teams that the "tough opponent" Monrovia faces today has beat. It will be a good ball game today that will feature two teams playing while they are peaking in their potential of play.

Anonymous said:

who cares what st. francis did in the season against these tems left in the playoffs...St. Francis has turned in their uniforms for the season.

Anonymous said:

Robbie can pitch every game...but most likely won't start them all...pitchers can only throw 10 innings in a week so if he throws all 7 today (provided he starts) then he can only pitch 3 if they play on friday...Monrovia did this with Eddie last year, and he ended up the winning pitcher in all 5 of their games last year so it can be done.

Anonymous said:

Does anyone know if Rassmusen is pitching today? Is it possible for him to pitch all the playoffs games? I know that they have another good pitcher and also a third.

Alfred Varela said:

Gabrielino has had a wonderful season and credit is due the players their parents and the Pony league they came up from. The core of this team has been together for a long time. They are a talented bunch and have played the game well for many years. The coaches at Gabrielino should thank their lucky stars and enjoy the ride because a group like this comes around Gabrielino once in a decade, give or take. So don't be hating on the Eagles, there for real. They are only missing a couple of Pony league teamate's that would take them over the top.
Go Eagles.

Anonymous said:

Thanks JJ

Jorge Jarrin said:

Regarding the blogger who asked about summer baseball camps for his/her two boys age 11 and 13; check out the schedule on the USC Trojan Baseball web site. Head Coach Chad Kreuter puts on an excellent summer Baseball camp program. Also Andy Nieto, formerly of USC, and now head coach at Bishop Amat has also put on a number of very good fundamentals baseball day
long camps. If you are open to spending a little more for a great baseball expirience, check the Pepperdine University Baseball Camp out at the Malibu Campus. Baseball camps of this type are really an excellent and worthwhile approach for the youngster who is really leaning towrad focusing on a high school baseball career. Good luck.

SPECTATOR said:

GABRIELINO WON THEIR LEAGUE, AND BEAT THEIR 1ST ROUND OPPONENT PRETTY SOUNDLY! GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DESERVED. WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS TOMORRO...IF THEY DO BEAT TC, THEN WHAT EXCUSE ARE U GONNA COME UP WITH THEN?

anonymous said:

good luck to monrovia against campbell hall. keep in mind St. Francis beat them twice 13-4 and 7-2. I'm sure the people that wrote that article about the tough opponent in campbell hall took this into account. if monrovia struggles against campbell hall they should not be mentioned in the top 10 area teams and should drop out of playoffs.

punani face said:

i love angel cabral

japan

Tom S said:

Hey A. Campa
Looks like we’re gaining your respect towards Maranatha. Any chance we’ll see you Tues at Robinson stadium? It’s going to be a tough game against San Jacinto. I don’t know much about them and their stats look good but we were the underdogs against Rolling Hills Prep and came out on top. No mustard this time but you never know

sean gorman said:

You valley fans should appreciate what Monrovia has done the last 2 years. Their record is 47-8 and have a tough non-league schedule every year. give props to Eddie and Blackmore and Moore for for a class program.

A. Campa said:

Hey Tom S.,

Just got in after a long weekend. Nice to see that I go 13-2 in my baseball picks with one of my two losing predictions being a Maranatha loss. Maybe one these days I'll get it right regarding the Minutemen. I was just surprised you didn't have a mustard pack waiting for me. Good Luck Tuesday.

prep fan said:

I know RHP beat Rasmussen one of those years

Baseball Aficionado said:

Congrats to Rasmussen on a fine High School career. Does anyone know his record, and if he's had any losses, who did they come against?

Anonymous said:

A close game early in the playoffs is a good focus getter for the team - remember the game UCLA Bruins won in a second round game when Tyus Edney went the length of the court to beat Missouri 74-73 as time ran out on their way to their last National CHampionship. The Poly bats will wake up.

sgv said:

I'm not (too) worried about Poly's poor hitting performance yesterday. Keep in mind on two occasions Poly had the bases loaded and the 4 hitter Feess k'd. Any other day Feess gets atleast one hit in this situation and you have a 5-0 game about to be broken open.

Prep League Fan said:

I agree that Talt is the real deal. I did not suggest that a rematch of Poly and Maranatha would be a good game. But Poly will come back to the pack some next year and Maranatha is young and can improve, thereby making next year's matchup an interesting game.

Of course, both teams are still in the playoffs this year and we should wait for the season to end before worrying about next year.

the real voice said:

i have gone to a couple of Poly games this year, and to be honest, i think Talt is the real deal. not many people know about him because he is a number three for a very good Poly team. But he is as good if not better than Poly's two, Feess. Feess is a senior who has been here before,that is the only reason he is getting the nod. And a Poly v. Maranantha game would be that good. Fun for the area, yes, but not a good game. If you remember the game this year, Poly won 10-0 in 5. Yes maybe the field helped, but not 10 runs worth. Maranantha could scratch a run off of Feess, why would they get one off of Rasmussen? And Kiralla...really? I know Poly isnt hitting well, but everyone on the team has faced Kiralla before and a lot have grown up in Little League with him. You are telling me Kiralla would shut down Poly...i dont think so.

Prep League Fan said:

I'm actually not affiliated with Poly but I do think it will be a good game between them and Maranatha next year.

baseball said:

gabrielino is a joke... play some real teams...

The Voice said:

Prep League Fan -

I was not talking about Popham as the #3. I know that if you look at our overall ERA's and innings pitched, it looks like Popham is the #3 but I was actually talking about Beckwith.
If you take away 4 innings against Vally View (a pretty strong Division 1 team and the toughest team we played) Beckwith has 5 2/3 innings with no earned runs, only 1 hit and 3 K's.
I know he hasn't pitched much this year but he really has not yet been given a legitimate opportunity show what he can do. I would still take him against Talt. Just my opinion. He will get his opportunity next year although you will most likely see Covey when we play you, Beckwith will likely be the #2 then.

Marty said:

Angel Cabral .775 ERA

Prep League Fan said:

I never said that Poly will fold, but they are definitly going to come down. The entire Prep league is down however so they could very well still be good enough to win another Prep League title next year.

I just said Marantaha and Poly would be a good game next year.

P Finchamp said:

Tom S
RHP was handled by San Jacinto 10-0. So much for the momentum following the 15-0 trouncing of Mammoth in the play-in game.

Anonymous said:

Not so fast on Poly folding next year - they have some important underclassmen on the Varsity who have made meaningful contributions and a good young JV team made up mostly of Freshmen and a few sophmores.

Anonymous said:

They have pitchers in the Delphic league? I thought they hit off of tees.

Prep League Fan said:

Voice, I don't think you really match up that well if you put your #3 vs. Poly's #3.

Poly -
Talt ERA 1.48 IP 28.1 K 53

Mara -
Popham ERA 4.10 IP 27.1 K 23

Regardless, Maranatha will not get passed San Jacinto and unless Poly starts hitting they will not get very far either.

Maranatha should do very wel against Poly if they play them next year however as Poly is losing most of its team to graduation.

Tom S said:

The Voice: Haven’t seen you posting for a while. Glad to have you back supporting Maranatha. Man, a Poly v Maranatha final would be great but there’s a lot of playoff games to go.
Any word on the outcome of the RHP v San Jacinto game?

The Voice said:

SGV -

Maranatha does have more than 2 pitchers. I'll take Maranatha's number 3 vs. Poly's any day.


Anonymous said:

That Poly game was a little too close for comfort - guys let's get those batsheated up.

Anonymous said:

The Voice,
Sure why not.

Anonymous said:

sm lost 3-2.

sgv said:

The Voice:

Maranatha has a long road to reaching the championship with only 2 pitchers.

bruin eagle #4 said:

Congrats to GHS on their first ever playoff win. Keep representing little Sort!

The Voice said:

Let's see.....Rolling Hills Prep beat New Roads 5 to 3 during the season.... New Roads only lost 2 to 0 to Poly at the "Pinball Machine" against Rasmussen......
Maranatha beat Rolling Hills tonight 11 to 2 on the road.

Hmmm...now that's very interesting.

It would certainly be interesting to see Maranatha face Poly again. This time on a "real" baseball field. Not a "Pinball Machine" and with both #1 starters pitching (Rasmussen and Kiralla). The last game was at Poly with both #2 guys going. Also, it was a Freshman pitching for MHS vs. a Senior for Poly.

Both #1's are Seniors.

Is there anyone else out there besides Tom S and Maranatha Supporter that want to see that in the finals? It could happen.

prep fan said:

I know it's a baseball blog but there are some good recent posts on Mooney's run at TC.

How did SM baseball do today?

MHS Supporter said:

Anyone know the score of the RHP game today?

MHS Supporter said:

Maranatha at Rolling Hills Prep, 3:15 p.m. - Robledo (RH Prep), Galetti (RH Prep), Campa (RH Prep)

Way to go guys! A clean sweep of losing predictions.

The reality is that Maranatha should have been a #1 due to sharing the league title but lost a coin flip and ended up a #2.

I could have told you that we were the true favorite even being on the road. If you had seen our team vs. them before the game, I'll bet you would have changed your prediction.

Go Minutemen!

Anonymous said:

Congrats to Maranatha. As a Poly fan its great to see a supposedly "weak" from our schedule knock off a league's #1 seed.

minutefan said:

Fred, Maranatha 11-2 over Rolling Hills Prep

Corndizzledawg said:

GABRIELINO 7, ST MONICA 2

St Monica 002 000 0 2 6 1
Gabrielino 005 002 x 7 11 2

Andrew Loef, Anthony Yoshinaga (3) and Taylor Gelbrich;

Angel Cabral, Nick Hovermale (7) and Andy Tholt.

2B: Danny Macias (G), Greg Osborn (G), David Najera (StM).

SO/K: Angel Cabral (G) 8.

W: Angel Cabral (8-1).
L: Andrew Loef (3-3).

Gabrielino 19-6
St. Monica 10-14

Anonymous said:

thank you nfor the camp info.

Anonymous said:

Sports Camps....Phil Torres at CV has great programs. Arcadia has sports camps, but not the same focus. Also, local colleges have great summer camps. Example UCLA :
http://uclabruins.cstv.com/camps/baseball-day-camps.html

sgv said:

Poly wins 2-0 against a good New Roads team. 17k's for Rasmussen.

Anonymous said:

Anon 12:56

Most College & Universities offer baseball clinics or camps through out the summer.
Pick one near you and go to the Athletics page.

PS- I know Cal Poly Pomona is now having sign ups.

Anonymous said:

slight aside - I have 2 boys ages 11 and 13 - do any of the local SGV coaches put on baseball clinics in August? or are there any good baseball summer camps that bloggers would recommend - would travel to LA or SFV?

Tom S said:

Finchamp: Maybe we will have a RHP v Maranatha game next week.
Fred, Galetti and Campa, just wondering why you all are picking Rolling Hills over Maranatha? Rolling Hills #3 in the Harbor League, 11 – 9 record and Maranatha #2 in a somewhat weak Delphic league with a 14-10-1 record. Both teams have very similar stats for the season. Guess you all know something I don’t. Oh well, we’ll find out tonight who’s moving on

P Finchamp said:

I know it's Rolling Hills Maranatha.....just having fun.

P Finchamp said:

I knew I liked you SN guys. RH Prep isn't even playing Maranatha and you are still picking Prep.

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Miguel Melendez

Miguel Melendez is the Preps Editor at the Pasadena Star-News.

Melendez worked as a correspondent for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune for three years and later landed a job as a freelance writer at the Los Angeles Times before accepting an offer at The Orange County Register covering high schools.

Melendez covered Major League Soccer at The Register for three years before being promoted to report on the Lakers, Angels and Dodgers for the Web. Melendez also worked for the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Fresno Bee, Oakland Tribune and The Boston Globe.

E-mail opinions, suggestions and tips to miguel.melendez@sgvn.com.

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This page contains a single entry by Fred Robledo published on May 17, 2007 10:31 AM.

SOFTBALL: Temple City, Alverno only two left standing while top Star-News teams all season, Arcadia and Monrovia, go down in second round was the previous entry in this blog.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL: Locals get tough tests in quarterfinals is the next entry in this blog.

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on BASEBALL - Monrovia, Temple City and Pasadena Poly advance to Friday's quarterfinals: Did SF win their playoff game? ...

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on BASEBALL - Monrovia, Temple City and Pasadena Poly advance to Friday's quarterfinals: Wow, SF is going to worse than I even though if those are the guys the ...

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on BASEBALL - Monrovia, Temple City and Pasadena Poly advance to Friday's quarterfinals: SF should be move down to D-5 where they can be competitive - maybe. C ...

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on BASEBALL - Monrovia, Temple City and Pasadena Poly advance to Friday's quarterfinals: Hey-leave the St. Francis Alverno Boys alone they have a tough mission ...

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