This Post is Late

Thirty-nine innings and counting. Jeana Carrillo pitched another shutout (her 5th in a row). This one was an 11 inning gem in which she overcame 7 errors !!!!

Look out LPL Here comes the valley !!

Lompoc The baseball team moved into a tie for 1st with the St Joe Knights by beating those very same Knights 10-2 on their home field. The softball team, after losing their first three LPL contests, have now moved into a three-way tie for second with Cabrillo & St. Joseph - all half a game ahead of Morro Bay & two back of Templeton. And the boys tennis squad topped Morro Bay to advance to a 8-2 league record, solidifying third place & positioning themselves to go after the league leaders.

Cabrillo The Conquistadors were not idle either. As mentioned, the softball squad, has pulled out of a mid season slump, baseball won to move into a third place tie with Santa Ynez - a game back of both Lompoc & St. Joseph. Track & Field won a huge victory over Lompoc, and a tennis unit that had been being pounded, got up off the mat, and just missed pulling off a major victory on the road.

Softball

Lompoc

March 25. Yup, the last time Jeana Carrillo gave up an earned run was March the 25. She has not allowed runs of any type since an un-earned run in the fourth inning in a 1-0 loss to Morro Bay on April 4th. The game on the 25th was a 5-0 loss to the powerhouse Buena Bulldogs - and three of those runs were also unearned. She has issued a grand total of three walks in her last seven games and NONE in the last three.

On Tuesday, it was a severe test. St. Joseph wasn't scoring, but neither were the Braves. Carrillo allowed five hits while facing 47 batters, and her teammates committed 7 errors, but they were able get outs when they needed them. Inning after inning, St Joe's Kalley Snyder continued to mow down batters - she only faced 33 and struck out 19 of them. Shandee Berryman gave the Braves hope when she doubled - but Lompoc couldn't get the run across the plate. Finally, Courtney Dosa decided that that 11 innings was enough and blasted a solo home run to end the game. It was only the third Braves hit of the game.

JV

On the other hand, this group didn't even use up their allotment of innings. They blugeoned St. Joseph off the field 13-1 in five. They had 1 strikeout on the day, while both Alyssa Miclat and Chante Frelot both had home runs. Frelot also made a great play in the field that saved three runs. Megan Maddock pitched a complete game, allowing about half a dozen hits but only the one run.

Cabrillo
From LLR Correspondent Dan Aldridge :
Cabrillo-2 vs. Santa Maria-0
Cabrillo varsity softball took advantage of their scoring opportunities to claim their second Los Padres league win. [Ed Note: 2nd consecutive, Cabrillo is 5-3 in the LPL]
Santa Mariaʼs Defense held strong until the fourth inning when Meranda Fernandes hit a one out double to right centerfield. Two batters later, Adrianna Segura poked a single to score Fernandes. The following inning, Kristina Goodchild hit her second single of the game, advanced to 3rd on the third basemanʼs throwing error off a Kelly Brown slap and dash to first base. Kelcie Jo Pecyna then hit a hard chopper to short that scored Goodchild on the throw to first.
On defense, Kiley Shae Aldridge pitched the complete game for Cabrillo, logging 10 strikeouts and allowing 2 hits. The highlight came in the seventh inning, and a runner on first base, a sharp grounder was hit to Alyssa Abayari at 2nd base who tossed it to Shelby Kuhlman (shortstop) to Alex Pino (1st) for a double play.
Cabrillo now stands side by side with Lompoc and St. Joseph in 2nd place in the Los Padres League.

Cabrillo JV won handily 11-1.

Track & Field
The Cabrillo boys handed Lompoc Head Coach Robin Luken his first ever dual meet loss to the Conquistadors as Cabrillo swept all four contests at CHS on Tuesday. The victory, the first in at least 17 years, was decisive as the Braves were swamped by Cabrillo's superior numbers. The Varsity won 87-49, the JV 81-37. The girls side was no better - the Varsity on top 90-35, the JV 78-57.
Individual race results to follow soon.

Baseball

Cabrillo
Aaron Naputi has come up big for Cabrillo often this year and the show was in full operation on Tuesday. The 5-8, 165 lb junior pitched a complete game (1 earned run, 5 hits, 4 walks, 4 strikeouts),and was 3-4 at the plate with a run scored and an RBI. Cabrillo errors (3) made the game more interesting than it needed to be, but were matched by miscues by the Saints (5), as the Conq's prevailed 7-4. Duece Galvan walked thrice and scored twice. Cabrillo was 4-4 in stolen base attempts.

Lompoc
Cody Berryman excelled on the mound for the Braves as they trounced the St. Joe Knights 10-2 [Story]. Chris Mallory provided much of the offensive punch - going 2-2 with a home run, 3 RBI, 3 runs scored , and two stolen bases. Kevin Ericksen went 1-3, walk, RBI, and 2 runs scored. Brandon Alonzo tripled, Daniel Mallory doubled.

Boys Tennis

Lompoc
The Braves (11-4, 8-2 LPL) did not play well according to Head Coach Loretta Jensen, but they found a way to win. The first time around they defeated Morro Bay 14-4 - this one went down to the wire. Both coaches were tallying total games (the 1st match tiebreaker) as Lompoc clung to a 9-8 lead with only the Braves #3 doubles team still in action. The combo of Oscar Rodriguez and Cooper Barrick won in the first round, lost a tiebreaker in the second round, and pulled out a win in the last set to take the match. Alex Jensen won two sets and Robert Rodrigues & Anthony Yang each won a set in singles. The number 1 Doubles duo of Kyle Thumm and Marco Psallo swept all three of their sets.
JV Jim Steffey's undermanned Braves finally got to pick on someone their own size. Since Morro Bay's JV only had six players, the same number Lompoc has been fielding for most of the month, there were only eight sets played. Wyatt Peterson continued his excellent work at #1 singles winning twice (6-2, 6-4), and Carlos Diaz split his two sets (6-1, 4-6). Doubles units Gabriel Hernadez / Edgar Solis (3-6, 6-0) and Devin Day / Chris Aldama (6-4, 6-4) also went 3-1 giving the Braves a 6-2 victory.

Cabrillo
The Conq's (3-8, 3-11) lost a heart breaker to the Templeton Eagles on Tuesday afternoon. The score ? A 9-9 tie in sets and an Eagle advantage of one game (73-72) for the win. Once again doubles was the teams strength as they accounted for eight of Cabrillo's points. The duos of Andrew Shewell / Ryan Anderson and Casey Owen / David Terrones both swept and Jordan Daniels / Arjun Ayyar won two sets.
JV Both JV squads were operating without #3 singles players, and once again the Conq's suffered a close heart-rending loss (6-7) in which the doubles did the bulk of the scoring. Or in this case , all of it.Partners Alex Hurd / Calvin Hoffield and Ricky Cummings / Ricky Ruiz each swept all three of their sets for all six of Cabrillo's points. --- el stato