Walnut, South Hills, Damien baseball earn big league victories Wednesday

Walnut squeezes past LA: Near the midway point of Wednesday’s Hacienda League baseball game between Los Altos High School and reigning league champion Walnut, Los Altos coach Gabe Lopez called a brief meeting with his team. The Conquerors were holding onto a 1-0 lead and starter Nicholas Juarez had retired nine Mustangs in a row.
Lopez told his team that it needed to focus and limit mistakes because the team that committed fewer errors would win.

SOUTH HILLS HOLDS ON: When South Hills High School baseball coach Darren Murphy decides to start senior Brandon Dieter, the plan is for him to pitch five or six innings.
Wednesday was not one of those days.
In a battle of two of the top-5 teams in the area, the visiting Huskies defeated Glendora 2-1 in Palomares League play. The victory keeps the Huskies (8-1, 2-1) in a three-way tie atop the league standings with Ayala and Bonita.
Dieter pitched a complete game in earning his third win of the season. He allowed only one run on five hits and struck out eight Tartans (9-3, 2-2). The most important stat though, according to Murphy, was that he only threw 97 pitches.

Paige dominant in Damien win: Damien baseball coach Andy Nieto admits his team needed a little morale boost. It’s early in the season but the Spartans had lost four of their first seven games and had shown an unnerving propensity for not being able to hold a lead, Senior pitcher Isaiah Paige provided just the lift Nieto was looking for.
He pitched a shutout, allowing just three hits and striking out six as the Spartans slipped past visiting Upland 2-0 in Baseline League play on Wednesday.

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