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2026 EAST COUNTY PREP BASE BALL
East County Sports.com
RANCHO PENASQUITOS — It’s story time and a chance to reflect on the Falcon Fiesta, a prep softball tournament operated by Torrey Pines High.
Prior to the season, the tournament director placed the teams into pools, but allowed the schools to schedule its own dates for the round-robin portion of the tournament.
The lone requirement: complete all games on the Thursday before the final on Saturday (usually the weekend when most schools are on spring break), so they would have 23 hours to arrange the pairings for the trophy round.
One year, however, there was a problem rain. Thus, many games t be played during the week before the final round went unplayed.
Tournament officials did their best to compile a Saturday schedule, but some teams wanted to complete the round-robin.
And they did — even though some ballgames were nt played until the final week of the regular season.
This caused members of the CIF-San Diego Section office great discomfort, so they invoked a rule stating that once a tournament championship game was played, that was the end of the event.
Switch forward to this week and the annual Lions baseball tournament.
To be polite to a traveling team, to ballclubs which went 3-0 in pool pla — Granite Hills and Birmingham of Lake Balboa, Calif. — agreed to start Thursday’s finale at 10 a.m.
Fine. Birmingham saved money on per diem and other expenses; Eagles players could have an extra-day of free time for spring break.
However, the “rule”(guideline?) about not playing contests after the final was broken — by more than 50 CIFSDS schools, which were slayed to start at either 1 or 4 p.m.
What’s the point of this story: well,one schools are smarter than other schools and can think outside the box.
One of those schools is Helix.
Along with about a half-dozen other schools, the Highlanders asked their Thursday opponent, Mt. Carmel, about moving their slated contest to Friday.
It would give both teams more rest. It would make pitchers available. And since neither roster would be missing any players for spring break, lineup changes would be left at a minimum if at all.
Another school making a switch to Saturday is Francis W. Parker. Meanwhile, two schools without the pitching for a 3-game tournament, never mind a 4-day event — El Cajon Valley and Liberty Charter — agree to suspend their contest slated for Joan MacQuen Nussle School in Alpinel t could be re-scheduled for the near future.
Will CIFSDS officials suspend more than 50 schools for this “transgression”It’s doubtful — but you never know.
Game stuff
For the Sundevils, Ryde McCoy drove in two runs, while Kelle Leuck smacked a solo home run. Both are seniors.
Helix trailed 3-0, but pulled even in a 3-run fifth.
The rally was center around third baseman Josh Riivera, who triple home two runs, the scored the game-tying run on a basehit from first baseman Romeo Briones.
The Scotties (8-8) will next open Grossmont Hills League action Wednesday on the road against preseason favorite Granite Hills.
