Baseball: South Hills, Bishop Amat advance; Bonita-Northview, Charter Oak-Patriot postponed until Saturday ...

yes that was a fluke

but when Monrovia beat NV - that was a"fluke"? Interesting!

no that was a better team winning

Like when NV beat Amat? Was that a "fluke too"?

its called a fluke.

If D5 is the "womans division" what does that say when two teams that couldn't advance past the early rounds of the "womans division" beat two teams in the championship in "higher" divisions? (Monrovia beat Northview and Temple City beat South Hills)
What's lower than a "womans division"?

moved up,
WOW that is one huge jump . Maybe CIF will move us up to D- 4 then would that be enough for you or do you a have rule stating AMAT has to move up 4 divisions at a time when everybody else can move up one at a time. Another question ,why is d-5 a womens division in baseball but d-6 is not in football ?

los altos was already moved up from division 7 to division 6 in football. time to move amat out the womens bracket

womens title
Very interesting reply. So what you are saying there is one set of rules for AMAT and another for all the rest. Why should it not apply to a successful program like LA in football who is in the lower division despite winning many championships and never moving up to a more competitive division, but that's ok.

this only applies to amat because they should be in div 1 or 2 and not playing for the womens title in div 5

simple,
So to follow your thought process and reasoning the same applies to your D-4 or 5 football league you play in . They are all weak teams and they should hand out pink trophies or put * next to those championships.

very simple amat 73. so simple even you can understand it. All these teams in div 5 are weak. CIF should have just put amats boys team in a womans league.

pink trophy,
If we are fortunate enough to win CIF and they see it fitting to hand out a pink trophy for D-5 then we will gladly take it as long as has CIF Champion LANCERS written on it. Also if you can extract from your feeble mind why there should be an * by our title please give us you explaination , in your own words and not those of all the other haters out there. Please think for yourself once in a while. To south hills #1 why mention LP and SM in your post . Do you measure your accomplishments against what AMAT does to prove your might or you just threw that in as an opportunity to bash AMAT just for the hell of it seen as we aren't the ones bagging on the kid for his actions of the home run . As a matter of fact I believe Lancer 2DN was backing you up.

WOW , go SGV, its great to see all teams doing well, even Amat in D5 (you still have to play and win the game),

Team on a roll is D Ranch, power, defense, and pitching can do it for you plus some bracket breaks, and god with the weather. All in spite of a coach that calls a squeeze with Lengyel who hit a 400 ft bomb previously to give them a 2 run lead. CRAZY.
Not to mention, starting a sophomore pitcher Derek Goodwin when you have a senior ace Nick Greene who just beat Santa Monica, ready and rested, nothing like being a weatherman. Although Goodwin pitched great, 0 earned runs and keeping the big hitters off balance, they did bring in Nick Greene and closed with R J Benjamin.

Other highlights of the game: 2nd inning double play by Diamond Ranch Licon to Gonzales. Russel Allan went 2-3, Kyle Lengyel 2-3, Derek Goodwin 2-3 1 home run his 2nd of playoffs. R J Benjamin save.

Sorry to say but next up will end the road to Dodger Stadium for the Panthers, Patriot is just to good and Charter Oak has the best home field advantage in the CIF. Anyway great run Panthers.

and La Serna also lost THREE times to St Paul (D5 Del Rey 2nd place) who lost THREE times to Amat - so by your logic - they are not that good either

I saw this score on baseball resource
Patriot 1 Charter Oak 0

South Hills lost to Temple City who lost twice to San Marino. Not as good as you think...

It is so funny that you can say De La Fuentes home run was hit on a little league field but why only one of your players hit it out when its on your home field, shouldn't your whole team be hitting it out??? Anyways South Hills WON and will remain at NUMBER ONE!!!!

Just remember South Hills plays GOOD schools, not schools like La Puente & San Marino. Yeah he might of exaggerated his showboat but his home run came clutch and is something to be proud of!!!

some people need to get a life and stop siting at your computer hating on SH and a game winning HR from a kid with a messed up leg Great job SH great game

polish up that pink trophy amat fans. Gotta love winning 15-1 against weak teams. This division 5 title should have an asterisk attached to it.

WOW , go SGV, its great to see all teams doing well, even Amat in D5 (you still have to play and win the game),

Team on a roll is D Ranch, power, defense, and pitching can do it for you plus some bracket breaks, and god with the weather. All in spite of a coach that calls a squeeze with Lengyel who hit a 400 ft bomb previously to give them a 2 run lead. CRAZY.
Not to mention, starting a sophomore pitcher Derek Goodwin when you have a senior ace Nick Greene who just beat Santa Monica, ready and rested, nothing like being a weatherman. Although Goodwin pitched great, 0 earned runs and keeping the big hitters off balance, they did bring in Nick Greene and closed with R J Benjamin.

Other highlights of the game: 2nd inning double play by Diamond Ranch Licon to Gonzales. Russel Allan went 2-3, Kyle Lengyel 2-3, Derek Goodwin 2-3 1 home run his 2nd of playoffs. R J Benjamin save.

Sorry to say but next up will end the road to Dodger Stadium for the Panthers, Patriot is just to good and Charter Oak has the best home field advantage in the CIF.

Anyway great run Panthers.

some of you had tapes to meausure the homerun, is it really that important if Babe Ruth hit a hr on the small right field of Yankee stadium vs center field? Obviouly everyone had the same opportunity and the ball kept dying against the wind.
Yes delafuente did play for the USA team, will go to college on almost a full ride, will get drafted even with a bum knee. Will keep on playing, maybe he will learn tone down maybe he wont. Maybe what makes him great is the cockiness.
There is one guarantee there will always be a "Jeremy Popoff" who will look at all the negatives he does because he/she could never reach those dreams.

Frankly who cares, if he can do it again to win a game then SH will sure take it

Have any of you SGV people ever been to a college baseball game? I'm not talking Mt Sac here. Go check out the Fullerton/Long Beach game tonight. Then you'll see two teams playing that respect the game. They don't stand at the plate and admire homeruns and they certainly don't brush their shoulder off when hitting homeplate. Leave showbaoting to the pros like Kobe and LT. Those guys are entertainers and get paid to perform for the audience. High school baseball should be about learning to play the game the right way. Instead of taking BP all day and night, maybe De La Fuente should learn a little bit about playing the game with respect and class. He'll learn eventually. Rodriguez at Pepperdine will yank his ass next year if he sees what I saw yesterday. A punk homerun trot by a kid with a pumped up ego. They obviously didn't teach this kid much when he played for Team USA!!!

It was a great game between two completely even teams. Serna made one bad pitch. Our filed at LS is a short porch (about 300 to left and 350 or so to center), but the ball dies there due to the prevailing breeze. Dela Fuente's "bomb" was only about 330' or so. Nice hit, but it didn't go out by much. And the kid is definitely an idiot with the gangster "brush off" gesture at home plate. The kid is talented, but he is going nowhere with that attitude.

Great season by both teams-two of the best in the area.

I can understand old school vs. new school mentality but the kid did not kill anyone, seems like some of these comments are more out jealosy and personal then the act itself. Sad thing is the insults come while they hide behind their mom's skirt.
Big deal, play the game with passion, hell play the game on a broker knee and hit a winning HR.

Whats the big deal. He poked one out and got caught up in the moment, remember he is a teen and not a adult. If I am his dad I tell him to tone it down but you cannot take away the fact he had a clutch HR. Big time players rise to occasion in big time games. Kobe grabs at his jersey and flashes that Lakers embroiderment across his jersey when fired up, I do not see the big deal only if you were on the losing side or a SH hater. Good job So. Hills keep it going for SGV. It is all about Amat tho!

Don't let this get nasty, I had to delte six comments this morning.

South Hills Fans,

There is no excuse for classless showboating. That is an embarassment for the player, the school and his parents. How pathetic was that display of a little league field homerun. Very bad taste, I hope its not indicative of South Hills program. Pretty sad.

There is allot of material regarding the Amat game in Scott Galetti's blog. It's worth a visit, just to see how the other half lives I suppose.

One more thing. I noticed that some of the blogers over there are have the same "faces" as some people who post here. interesting eh...

South Hills 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 - 2 6 1
La Serna 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 6 0

(SH) Derek Klena / Cody Doyle
(LS) Casey Serna / Brandon Montoya

(HR) Dimitri De La Fuente (SH) / Freddy Sanchez (LS)
(2B) Christian Ibarra (SH)

(W) Klena (5-0)
(L) Serna (7-2)

(SH) 22-5
(LS) 21-8

Batting
South Hills (2) (6 for 25)
Danny Roddy cf 0-3.
Christian Ibarra ss 2-3, DOUBLE, LOB, R.
Dimitri De La Fuente dh 1-2, IBB, K, 2 RBI HR.
Derek Klena p (no AB)
Tyler Buffington 3b 1-3, K.
Cody Doyle c 0-3.
Thadd McAlpin lf 0-2, BB.
Cameron Deen rf 1-3, base hit bunt, LOB.
Adrian Porro 1b 0-2.
-Andrew Roddy ph 1-1, base hit bunt, LOB.
Mike Martinez 2b 0-3, K.

La Serna (1) (6 for 25)
Austin Estrada cf 1-3, LOB.
Brandon Montoya c 1-2, SAC bunt, LOB.
Ben Burke 1b 0-3, 2 K.
Victor Soto rf 0-2, IBB, LOB.
Steven Oertel 3b 0-3.
David Langstaff dh 0-2, K.
-Casey Serna p 0-1.
Freddy Sanchez ss 1-3, R, solo HR/RBI.
Raymond Morrill 2b 2-3, K, LOB.
-Conner Burke pr (bottom 7th)
Nathan Garcia lf 1-3, K.

Pitchers
SH - Derek Klena (W, 5-0) 7.0 IP (CG) 25 AB, (earned)R, 6H, 5K, IBB, HR, 4 LOB.

LS - Casey Serna (L, 7-2) 7.0 IP (CG) 2R, 6H, 3K, 2 BB (incl. 1 IBB), 2ER, DOUBLE, HR, 3 LOB.

Defense (PO-A-E)
SH (21-10-1)
D Roddy 1-0-1, Ibarra 2-0-0, Klena 0-4-0, Buffington 0-4-0, Doyle 5-2-0 (includes 4 strikeouts collected from Klena), McAlpin 1-0-0, Deen 1-0-0, Porro 10-0-0, M Martinez 1-1-0.

LS (21-11-0)
Austin Estrada 1-0-0, Montoya 4-0-0 (includes 2 strikeouts collected from Serna), Ben Burke 10-0-0, Soto 1-0-0, Oertel 0-2-0, Serna 0-1-0, Sanchez 1-2-0, Morrill 3-6-0, Garcia 1-0-0.

Jeremy Popoff, not trying to get yo going on NV, the point is that i rather have a player who has heart, plays injured, and cares about winning, then a guy who just works enough. My kid is a friend of Dimitri, and this kid is hitting at night when others are watching TV.
I dont agree with showboating but people forget the other team was was heckling him when he struck out.

Don't even get me started on Northview. I saw some bad sportsmanship from South Hills today but Northview takes that crown every year. Nobody plays baseball with less class than Northview. It will be fun to see them all crying down the RF line after Saturday's loss vs Bonita.

Jealousy is a bigger sin!
Jeremy Popoff, taking a shot a bum knee of a young player has to be a lot lower then any showboating. Like someone else said, your kids would most likely not have the guts to play with a torn knee. Can you acknowledge that?
Two players have been mentioned here, Giambi and Ramirez. Ramirez is perceived as cocky and aloof, even lazy. Giambi a good guy who works hard.
Reality is Ramirez is problaby one of the hardest working players and Giambi cheats with steroids.
There is a pitcher for NV who is problaby more cocky makes gesutes at players when he strikes them out, where is the outcry?

Must have been the bum knee that caused "Manny Wannabe" De La Fuente to brush the shoulder towards the La Serna fans. What a classless move!!! Bastion wouldn't have stood for it. The next SH hitter should have got one in the earhole.

The LS/SH game was a true battle of two very evenly matched teams. Solid defense great pitching, coaching strategies...a true classic...then there was Dimitri Delafeunte, who overshadowed his own accomplishment with an embarrassing display of total disrespect for the game. Are you reading this "Teach"?...He completely contradicted what you and your organization stand for. Now, I know you weren't coaching him at the time, and I'm pretty sure you don't condone this type of flagrant taunting, but this kid did all the things described in the previous post. What wasn't mentioned is when he got to home plate, stood on it, and brushed his left hand off his right shoulder in an "F/U" gesture towards the stands. Disgusting!
The following is a quote from "TeachDGame" written by an SGV Arsenal coach (Dimitris' coach)
PLAYERS:every time you step on the field, it is one step closer to the day you will no longer be
able to step on that field and compete. How do you want that step to be taken. Everyone wants
the satisfaction of winning. Winning feels good. But can you win while still retaining the Respect
of your opponent.
After todays display, you little man, have lost all respect from a former admirer.

In DeLaFuente's defense, there is another side of the kid. He is playing with a torn ACL, will have surgery after the season is over. Doctors advice him against playing and risking further damage. He already has a scholarship, so the question i asked, why? No way i would let my kid play and risk his future. So i have to conclude that the kid is a gamer and wants to win. He is not 100% but has a huge impact on the way others get pitch. No kid in this valley gets pitch around as much as he does, and i am not saying he is the best hitter. On top of this he has been getting ready to go on the mound.
I am old school, so i am not a fan of homerun showboating but he earned his right, i can assure you that most kids in the same position would choose to sit and not play.

No Mr Deladingdong!!!!
Maybe "OUR" game got postponed until tommo...err MANIANA!!!!Foooool!!Besides our blood is not blue enogh to be allowed on your uppitty POBLEMED CAMPUS ....lol
ps...I do know for a fact that there IS a SHORT PORCH at your field ...FACT,SIMPLE!

**** all you SOUTH HILLS HATERS. TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF YOUR TEETH AND STOP RUNNING YOUR MOUTH LAMESS!! GOOOD JOB SOUTH HILLS!
KEEP SHOWING UP TO ALL SOUTH HILLS GAMES CAUSE OBVIOUSLY YOUR SCHOOLS ALREADY OUT..AND YOU ALL KNOW THAT WAS A BOMBBBBBB!!!!!!

Jeremy Popoff , you are correct Giambi respects the game by cheating and injecting steroids.
Why is it ok to celebrate in football but in baseball is showboating?
When someone strikes out, the opposite team yells and talk trash but when you win the game hitting a homerun some people get sensitive.
Ramirez says he has no problem when a pitchers show emotions, so they should not have a problem with him when he showboats a HR. Baseball is a game of failures nothing wrong with celebrating or showing cockiness when you come thru,

Figures.....SH wins on a "showboat" HR on a SHORT-PORCHED little league field by DeLaDingDong !!!!
.......something to be proud of ????????

Went to South Hills game today. Embarrasing to watch a high school kid showboat on a homerun. He stands there to admire it and then big leagues it around the bases a la Manny Ramirez. Show some class and run around the bases like you've done it before. I lost respect for South Hills baseball today. The teams with Giambi, Lidle, and Wooten back in the day wouldn't play that way!!!

Went to the SH game, what a game, great defense on both sides, great pitching for SH Derik, consistent control hitting corners. Delafuete did not just a HR, that was a bomb.
Looking forward to Saturday trying to decide wish game to watch.

3 Del Rey teams in the semi's in D5. Amat faces Bishop Montegomery and St. Paul faces Paraclete.

Looks like Fred's "original" prediction of an Amat-St. Paul final could happen.

I'm lovin' it!

Hey! Diamond Ranch showed St. Josephs/Santa Maria the door this afternoon. With the clouds looking very ominous and some slight drizzles Diamond Ranch was able to play a FULL seven innings without any delays or thoughts about cancelling. And, Diamond Ranch wasted no time taking advantage of the great baseball weather and beat St. Joseph's, 6-1. We had two home runs again today and we are ready for a great THREE DAY WEEKEND!!
Go Panthers!!!

Congradulations boys on your win against St Joseph's today. Gooooo....Panthers....

Denny Crane

Even though you made you're point in a sarcastic way, I kind of agree with you on this one, in that I do wish Amat were playing in a higher division.

Perhaps they wouldn’t be a favorite to win, or perhaps they would only go a round or two in D1, but at the very least they would compete.

Nevertheless, I tend to believe that even if Amat was able to secure a CIF Championship in D2 or D1 that, it somehow wouldn’t change the way you act. You (and all the other haters) would still be out there bashing Amat over something silly.

So, the best thing to do here, is to just sit back and enjoy a potential CIF banner hanging from the rafters of a local (SGV) school. The least you could do, is to be proud that one of our own did so well.

AMAT 13-0 2ND INN.LIKE THE MAN SAID YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.WHAT GREAT STATS AMAT WILL COME AWAY WITH. MORE 500 HITTERS THEN ANYONE.JUST GOES TO SHOW YOU WHAT A JOKE AMAT BEING IN DIV 5 IS.I THINK THEY WERE THE ONLY LOCK IN ALL THE CIF PLAYOFFS.JUST ONE FANS OPINION.

341, what's happening fred? who's playing

I'll be updating the thread with scores from Amat and South Hills as they're sent to me.

The rain is good and we need it!

It will also be good for all pitchers to get an extra day rest!

CJ -- QUIT YOUR WHINING..HOW EMBARRASING FOR U

Yes, I want to see our SGV teams do well, guess that makes me a homer.

Fred errr I mean Homer, "the pitching for OUR valley teams will get all screwed up if the games are pushed back till Monday" .. I guess, the opponents won't have to worry agout it, just "our" valley teams, almost laughable as far as credibility goes, for both you and the mono-tone fishwrap

4 BONITA-NORTHVIEW PEEPS
RAINING RIGHT NOW IN LA VERNE @ 11:00, NOT AS HARD AS YESTERDAY THOUGH.

RAINING IN LA VERNE RIGHT NOW @ 11:00, NOT AS HARD AS YESTERDAY THOUGH

friendly hills golf course says it looks ugly and has been lightly raining all morning. shhs will probally be traveling and doing the wait and see. the guy in the pro shop says the bball field at la serna looked "ok" when he went by this am.

You the man Fred, keep the updates coming. Ten years ago we'd all be scramling around making phone calls.

thanks for the udpate

Fred
Who knows if they'll even cancel. I know the SD girls team is being sent to Desert Hot Springs High School as of right now???

It seems Mother Nature is playing a joke on all of us, the only good thing is that I am less nervous about the actual game because I am wondering if we will even play.