Prep Baseball: Week 3 Scores/Highlights

By Nick Pellegrino
Updated: March 12, 2026

2026 EAST COUNTY PREP BASEBALL

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WEEK THREE (Mar. 9-14)

Thurs., Mar. 12
Monte Vista 3, Francis W. Parker 0 FULL STORY HERE

Grossmont 6, Montgomery 5
Granite Hills 8, at Santana 2
Christian 12, at El Capitan 2
Foothills Christian 26, at The Rock 0 (5 inn.)
Mountain Empire at Holtville
Vincent Memorial at Liberty Charter
Anza-Hamilton at Borrego Springs

Wed., Mar. 11

Patrick Henry 3, at Mt. Carmel 0
Patriots: Tyson Bobo, no-hitter
|FULL STORY HERE

Helix 10, at Point Loma 5
At Point Loma: The Highlanders scored three times in the third inning to mount a 4-1 lead, then added four more in the fourth to pull away and pound the Pointers, 10-5.

A quartet of pitchers — Isaac Fierro (winner), Owen Liddell, Isaac Fierro and Ben Williams — combined on a 3-hitter, allowing the Scotties (4-1) to equal their best start sin four seasons.

On offnese, Romeo Briones drilled a 3-run homer, part of his 4 RBI performance.

Angel Watkins and Williams — both juniors — both added solo homers.

Kearny 15, Mount Miguel 3
At Linda Vista: Following a fast start, things completely turned toward the worst for the Matadors.

Mount Miguelscored three times in the first, but thehost Komets rebounds witrh 145unanswered runs to take Wednesday’s (Mar. 11) tournament tilt.

Komets sophomore Arthur Minton belted in three runs, while Chri Davila and Ben Gonzales-Kim each had rwo RBI.

Pitchers from Kearny (1-5) allowed just one hits folling the forgetful first., gaing its initial win of the season. The Matadors are winless in five.

Tue., Mar. 10
Granite Hills 4, La Costa Canyon 3 (10 inn., walk-off)
At eastern El Cajon: With a pair of dramatic hits, Granite Hills continued its amazing winning streak against San Diego Section oppsition.

Colton Windham doubled home a game-tying run in the bottom of the seventh inning,then Eurijah Schutza raced home on a wild pitchin the 10th to clinch the decision over the Mavericks.

Schutza scored on an 0-2 fastball which raced to the backstop qhwn the bases loaded and one down.

Schutza started the inning qith a basehit to right, Windham singled to center, then Brodey Vicars walked to load the bases.

La Costa Canyon received a break when the next batter popped out, allowing a possible escape with a double play.

However, freshman Jaden Macias, who earlier came up as a pinch-hitter, saw an 0-2 pitch go hay-wire for the winning run.

LCC scored three times in the second for a 3-1 lead, but the Eagles aswered with runs in the third — an RBI basehit by Vicars, scoring WWindham who reached second on another wild pitch — and seventh to force extra frames.

Vicars pitched all three extra innings to gainthe win, allowing just one hit.

The Eagles remain unbeaten at 3-0; the previously-unbeaten Mav ericks fell to 3-1.

Christian 8, Coronado 4
At the green field on reenfield: The Patriots were fired up to meet their long0tome rivals in te Islanders.

In the off-season, Christian was relagated from the prestigpus Western League downto the Eastern League — and replaced by Coronado.

Obviously insulted by the (baseball) powers that be, Chrostian raced to a 3-0 first-inningh lead, sinking the keiki (Island Bpys), 8-4, on Tuesday (Mar. 10).

Since the ballclubs renewed their series in 2022, the Patshold a 8-4 advantage.

The Patriots opened the contest on fire.

Starting pitcher Kyler Lybarger started with consecutive trikeouts, then jammed a third batter for a weak fly-ball out.

The offense then continued the early assault.

Benji Molina led off with a line double to center field, then Braeden Casey walked.

Moments later, left fielder Xander Molina kept the spree going by slamming a 3-run homer to right field.

Right fielder Caleb Brierley later added a solo homer for a 4-1 lead in the third.

Both Molina brothers finished with two hits each. Also suppling RBI were Riley Snyder, Kyler Lybarger and Trae Pheasant.

Both ballclubs entered with 1-2 record, so the C-Pats reached .500 with their second straight victory.

Steele Canyon 6, Mater DeiCatholic 6
Near Jamil: Ever since Marian High relocated from greater Imperial Beach and changed its name to Mater Dei Catholic High in 2007 — this is the school’s 20th anniversary — the Crusaders have only beaten Steele Cahon in baseball just once.

Aktough MDC scored a run in the sixth, then two more in the seventh, theCrusaders fell just short in Steele Canyon’s narrow 6-5 triumph on Tuesday (Mar. 10).

he Cougars *2-3) continued the trend eith their second straight decision — but only by the slimmest of margins.

SCHS registered just two hits for runs: a run-scoring double from Caha Gavin.in the 4th, then a 2-run single by Logan Page when the host tallied nthree times in the 5th before MDC stormed back.

Page entered from the bullpen late to gain the save.

In addition for SteeleCanyon,Julian . Cervantes collected two hits and scordd twice, while Maddden McBride-Rodriguez had two hits and scored once.

Mountain Empire 13, at Borrego Springs 6
At Borrego Springs: Leading 6-4, the RedHawks broke open a nail-biter by posting six runs in the fifth inning to down the Rams.

Cameron Leon batted 3-for-5 with two runs scored for the Empire (2-0) in handing Borrego Springs its first setback in three starts.

Valhalla 11, CV-High Tech 6
At Rancho San Diego: Orage Nation, out-scored 66-5 in four losses to open the season, bonded from off the deck to bounce tghe Bruins.

Statistics were not reported at press time.

The Bishop’s 5. Monte Vista 1
At Kate Session Elementary School in Pacific Beach: in trouble throughouy his five innings, The Bishop’s pitcher Grayson Blatt was tagged for evedn hits, yet closed with 4.2 inings of shutout ball to stop Monte Vista.

The Monarchs opener the scoring in the first, when Michael Ortiz doubles home Ben Kurtz. The duo, along with freshman ooper Sutton, each finished with two hits, but the rest of the batting order collected just one hit in stranding a ton of baserunners.

Both ballclubs are 2=3 overall.

Eastlake 4, Grossmont 2
At eastern Chula Vista: The Hiilers’ Max Tufugafale and Logan Struck “struck” for RBI singles in the soxth to pull even, but the rest of the contest went to the Titans.

The Titans answerd with a pair of runs in the sixth, then rfeleiver Nico Gomez registered a 1-2-3 in the seventh to garner the save for Eastlake’s first victory in four starts. Both sides are 1-3 ovweall.

Montgomery 2, Santana 0
At Otay Mesa: Frankly, the Aztecs field just one quality startig pitcher. Unfortunately for the Sultans, he was on the mound Tuesday (Nar. 10).

Montgomery junior Ricardo Aguilar fired a 2-hit shutout and faced just three batters above the minimum in his complete-gae triumph. Aguilarf struck out six batters from Santana (2-2).
Driving in runs for the Aztecs (1-4) were freshmen Armando Morales and Liam Wilson.

Orange Glen 15, El Cajon Valley 1
At ECVHS, Patriots senior Alex Vargas *5 IO) and sophomore Josue Godina (2 IP) combined to toss a no-hitter r at the Braves.

The run (unearned) was scored by Abel Molina in the seventh.

Santa Fe Christian 4, El Caitan 1
At Solana Beach: Eagles pitcher Owen Mauser tpssed six innings of 3-hit bal,then closer Will Cavanaugh fired a 1-2-3 in the seventh to vanquish the Vaqueros.

El Capitan pulled eben in the nfourth when Kasen Baker scored an unearned run on an error. However, SFCS answered with three tunsin the fifth to win.

Both sides entered with 2-1 marks. Thus, the Navigators (the school’s former nickname) movrd to 3-1 overall.

Sweetwater 3m Foothills Christian 2
At National City, The Knights rallied from a 3-0 deficit with a pair of sixth-inning tuns, but fell to the Sun Devils.

Foothills Christian pitching was solid, allowing jiust thre hits. But three errors allowed two unearned runs to score and snap the 6-game win streak of the previously-undefeated Knights (6-1).

The comeback featured RBI singles by Jonah Nottoli and Tylor Burrell. “Captain” Jack Morgan vatted 2-for-3 to raise his batting average to .591 to leas the CIF-San Diego Section.

Mon., Mar. 9
Helix 26,Mira Mesa 2 (6 inn.)
FULL STORY HERE

Ramona 3, Mt.Carmel 2 (9 inn.)
Up on “the hill,” Tallon Ogilvie singled to center field, with Cal Melendez racing home from second base in the bottom of the ninth, allowing the undefeated Bulldogs (3-0) to outlast visiting Mt. Carmel, 3-2.

Mendez started the rally by accepting a one-out walk, moving to second base on a Justin Jarrett basehit before Ogilvie’s grounder up the middle was just slow enough for Mendez to beat the throw to the plate.

Over the first eight innings, pitchers on both sides allowed seven sets of zeroes. The loneblemished was two Ramona runs in the second on a 2-run double by olton Simpson, but the Sundevils answered with two markers in the fourth.

Snother Dawgs hero was relief pitcher Alex Wilson, who needed to enterin the second inning. However, he pitched eight full frames to garner the victory after striking out 11 Mt. Carmel batters.

The SUndevils (0-2-1) recieved a solo home run from Kelle Leuck.

Torrey Pines 10, Patrick Henry 9 (8 inn,)
At Carmel Highlands, the never-say-die Falcons scored four timesin the bottom of the seventh, then offset a Patriots run with two in the eighth for the victory in a battle of unbeaten ballclubs.

Torrey Pies (4-0) managed just seven hits, with Patrick Henry (4-1) suffered from four errors and six walks, giving the hosts 10 extra baserunners.There was also a batter hit by a pitch whch led to the game-winning run.

Tied at 8-all, Ian Brooke took a 2-2 pitch to right field, driving home Matt Jacobs.

But un the home-half, Ian Tseng was struck on 2-1 pitch with the bases loaded, forcing home the game-tying run.

Moments later, Camden Nishnick lined a walk-off single to left field.

For Patrick Henry, a trio of seniors — Jimmy Gunn (3 hits), Salvatore Gagliano and Brooke — all had two RBI, including a home run by Gagliano.

Mesa-High Tech 10, Liberty Charter 8
In Clairemont, the host Thunder are off to their first 3-0 start in school history. The Lions fell to 1-4.

Bonsall 24, at Julian 6
Can you believe t? According to MaxPreps, entering this ballgame, Bonsall (1-4 with its lone win coming against El Cajon Valley) are ranked 23rd in the CIF-San Diego Section. Meanwhile, Kearny (0-5) is ranked 15tg,