The Barons ended their season on a high note last week sweeping the Newport Harbor Sailors in three games. The Barons won 4-0, 6-1 and 11-0 in the three games respectively.
The Barons pummeled the last place Sailors in all three games with a combined aggregate of 21-1.
With playoff hopes out of reach, the Barons looked to make the best they could out of their last series and that they did.
In game two at home, the Barons outscored the Sailors six runs to one. Lee Perri(‘12) opened up the first three innings of play for the Barons. Perri only allowed one run all three innings. He was relieved by Nic Yang(‘13) who pitched the rest of the way. Yang shut out the Sailors and garnered his third win of the season.
The Baron batters scored two in the early half of the game to go up 2-1 going into the fourth inning. It was in the fifth that the Barons really opened up the lead scoring three runs and increasing the score to 6-1.
Tanner Brown(‘12) and Brock Lundquist(‘14) led the team in hits with two a piece. Brown also homered in the game.
In game three, after going up two games in the series, the Barons were looking to accomplish their first sweep of the season. Eleven runs later, the Barons ended the season on a happy note. Seniors were able to get their last at bats in their high school career and future varsity players were able to get their first at bats of the season.
In the first inning, Jordan Lucio(’13) scored two runners to add to two runs earlier by Dillon Persinger(‘14) and Daniel Patzlaff(‘14). The Barons started the game up 4-0. The Sailors had no answer.
The barrage continued in the early part of the game. The next inning the Barons scored two more to make it 6-0.
The Sailors only made it to first twice this game and posed no threat to the Baron pitchers; Tanner Brown, who threw the first four innings and Monty Plattner(‘13), who threw the last three.
In the fourth inning after Michael Hickman(’15) hit a triple, Jordan Lucio(‘13) hit him home to add yet another run. Two more runs were added in the fifth inning; totaling the score at 9-0.
After full field changes in the fifth brought in new under class man and seniors alike the Barons kept their scoring pace. In the sixth the Barons loaded the bases all on two outs and scored two runners finalizing the score at 11-0.
The Barons easily swept the Sailors in three games. The Barons did not slip up at all this series and beat a team they were suppose to beat. The boys ended with a final Sunset League record of 5-10 which is well below a five-hundred average. However, the Barons went 15-11 overall and won the Estancia tournament which is a testament to the strength of the Sunset League but also to the potential of the Baron Varsity baseball team next year.
