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11.0 years ago @ 8:05AM

Baseball Beats Heritage 3-1 in CIF Wildcard Game

Game Date
May 15, 2012
Score
SPARTANS: 3
HERITAGE: 1

The Spartans (San Andreas #3) defeated Heritage (Sunbelt At-Large) 3-1 in a pitching duel in the CIF Division 3 Wild-Card game Tuesday, May 15.  Belizario Gutierrez went the distance for the Spartans on the hill scattering 5 hits and striking out 6.

San G struck first to break a scoreless tie in the bottom of the fifth inning when Trevor Mathews scored from second base on a high chopper that bounced over the shortstop's glove as the shortstop battled the sun and the distraction from Mathews as he ran towards third base.  Mathews rounded third and raced home ahead of the throw from the left fielder to give the Spartans the lead at 1-0.

In the bottom of the sixth, sophomore catcher Rainier Aguilar hit a solo home run to left for what would end up being the game winning run.  Sophomore pinch runner Nathan Mathews scored another insurance run in the bottom of the sixth as he alertly scored from third on a dropped third strike as the catcher threw to first to get the batter.

Heritage did not go down without a fight though as they got runners on second and third with no outs to start the seventh.  The next batter hit a grounder that took a wicked high hop but Spartan shortstop Zack Pender leaped and extended his glove to snare it and throw to first for the first out.  Spartan first basemen Garrett Preszler quickly relayed the throw to third basemen Andy Golding to get the Heritage runner trying to advance to third on Pender's throw for an unconventional double play that killed the Heritage rally.

The Spartans now travel to Bonita HS (CIF #1 seed) Friday, May 18 for the CIF First Round game.

Good luck San G!


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