East County Sports

West Hills’ Stanka, Rosolino provide reunion gift to rival

Wyatt Stanka

2026 EAST COUNTY PREP BASEBALL

 

Editor’s Note: After consultation with GameChanger (which shares game information with MaxPreps), many recent scores from Grossmont Valley League schools were reported incorrectly. In this regard, Wednesday’s Santana-Monte Vista game was actually a win for Monte Vista; thus, Steele Canyon is the outright GVL champion. We did not change the story posted below.

Revised Final Standings: Steele Canyon 8-2, Monte Vista 7-3, Santana 7-3, West Hills 6-4, Mount Miguel 2-8, ECVHS 0-10.

 

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SANTEE — During a school reunion sometime around mid-century, a group of former baseball players would laugh it off, because the bottom line: they were Grossmont Valley League champions.

How they got there might be forgotten by then, but right now, the vision is clear.

After Santana missed on claiming at least a share of the GVL title with a setback to Monte Vista on Wednesday, Steele Canyon can say the same thing. On Friday (Nay 15), the Cougars also lost their regular-season finale by getting shutout by West Hills, 5-0, at Wolf Pack Park.

Although they, too, can call themselves champions, tonight’s parties will be held on both sides of Santee.

 

Game recap

West Hills pitchers Wyatt Stanka, Alden Boisvert and Anthony Rosolino combined to stymie the Cougars with a two-hit shutout on Senior Day,

Stanka fired 5.2 shutout innings, striking out nine Steele Canyon batters before exiting.

Boisvert registered te final out in the sixth, then Rosolino dominated with a 1-2-3 in the seventh, all on strikeouts. The Pack staff retired the final eight SCHS batters.

Boisvert, along with his pitching hold, gained the game-winning RBI on a run-scoring single in the third. His line drive to right field brought home Rosolino .

An inning later, Rosolino scored again when a dribbler off the bat of Andy Mildenstein went for an infield single.

In the fifth, Rosolino, the starting center fielder, placed the finishing touches on a three-run rally by doubling to drive in a pair.

West Hills (9-15 overall), which opened the season by winning just once in 10 starts, finished the season above .500 at 8-5.

Steele Canyon (13-15) still wins its third-ever league title, the first since the Grossmont Conference split into Hills/Valley leagues for 2010. Previously, the Cougars captured the final pair of Grossmont South League banners in 2008-09 (both times with 12-3 marks).

— Nick Pellegrino

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