The No. 1-ranked Corona Excessive baseball staff has began the season with eight shutouts in 9 video games. And that’s no fluke.
With ace Seth Hernandez on the mound, the Panthers superior to the Boras Traditional semifinals with a 5-0 win over Santa Margarita on Wednesday at JSerra. Hernandez struck out 13 in 6-1/3 innings. Twice Santa Margarita had runners at third towards Hernandez, however he both overpowered the Eagles along with his fastball or received key outs along with his breaking stuff. In 19-1/3 innings, Hernandez has given up no runs, struck out 40 and walked two.
Corona pitchers have thrown 5 consecutive shutouts and given up one run all season. The state document for consecutive shutouts by a staff is seven set by Chino Nice Valley in 1957 and tied by San Francisco El Camino in 1977, in accordance with CalHiSports.com.
Joshua Hur hit a house run, Trey Ebel had a two-run double and Ethan Bingaman contributed an RBI triple. Corona (9-0) will play in Thursday’s 6 p.m. semifinal at JSerra. Hayden George struck out eight in 5 innings for Santa Margarita, which received 4 hits off Hernandez.
The opposite semifinal may have La Mirada at Mater Dei.
La Mirada 4, Huntington Seashore 1: The Matadores (8-1) superior to the Boras Traditional semifinals by handing Huntington Seashore its first defeat. Kevin Jeon hit two residence runs and completed with three RBIs. Luke Armijo threw 5 innings and Jason Rodriguez received the save. La Mirada’s solely loss is to Corona.
JSerra 3, Vista Murrieta 2: Max Reimers struck out 11 and gave up one hit in six innings for JSerra.
Mater Dei 11, Carlsbad 4: Brandon Thomas completed with three hits and two RBIs to maintain Mater Dei (10-0) unbeaten in a quarterfinal sport of the Boras Traditional. Sophomore Austin Gerken had three RBIs with out getting successful. He drove in runs with a stroll and two sacrifice flies.
Bishop Alemany 4, St. Francis 1: Franky Magaña threw three shutout innings of reduction for Alemany.
Crespi 5, Loyola 3: Tyler Walton struck out 10 in a whole sport and Landon Hodge contributed three hits to assist Crespi enhance to 12-0.
Sierra Canyon 10, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 4: Teddy Levin had two hits and 4 RBIs for Sierra Canyon.
Harvard-Westlake 4, Chaminade 2: Justin Kirchner struck out seven in six innings and Miguel Villegas went three for 3 to steer the Wolverines.
Aquinas 7, Birmingham 2: Johnny Tena and Mason Greenhouse every hit residence runs for Aquinas.
Ayala 5, Cypress 3: Jaden Valenzuela and Aidan Erlandsen hit residence runs for Ayala in a Boras Traditional comfort sport.
Gahr 16, Paloma Valley 1: Bryce Morrison had a house run and triple to steer Gahr.
Narbonne 6, San Pedro 2: Sophomore Evan Mora threw a whole sport for Narbonne. Ami Rodriguez and Raul Izquierdo every had two hits.
Cleveland 12, Taft 2: Miles Garcia had two hits and two RBIs for Cleveland.
El Camino Actual 11, Chatsworth 1: Luke Howe struck out 9 in a whole sport for ECR.
Simi Valley 6, La Palma Kennedy 1: Greg Lopez had two hits and Kyle Casey struck out 4 in six innings for the Pioneers.
Foothill 8, Utah Layton 0: Gavin Lauridsen continued his dominating pitching, hanging out 12 whereas giving up one hit in six innings for Foothill.
Anaheim Canyon 5, Villa Park 1: Sophomore Kemuel Zhang struck out seven and walked none in a whole sport for Canyon.
El Dorado 4, Oregon West Linn 3: Brady Abner delivered the walk-off hit within the backside of the seventh for El Dorado. Diego Gonzalez had a house run.
Orange Lutheran 1, Granada Hills 0: Gary Morse struck out 16 with no walks and allowed two hits.
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Granada Hills 5, La Cañada 0: Jocelyn Jimenez went 4 for 4 and Addison Moorman struck out 12 and threw a one-hitter.
San Pedro 5, Peninsula 3: Caroline Baker struck out 14 for San Pedro.
