This year our baseball had an okay season finishing a little under .500 overall. On Saturday May 9th, Poly played a very tough game against the Loyala Cubs. In the top of the first inning the Jackrabbits were able to put one run on the board but the Cubs responded quickly with 5 runs.
Poly was only able to score one more run in the third inning but it was no match for the 4 more runs Loyala later scored. At the end of the game, the score was 9-2 Loyola. On Wednesday May 12th, they played Cabrillo in an easy win. Poly scored 9 runs in the first inning and from there the rest of the game came extremely easy. The final score was 14-6 and it was great win to boost the team’s confidence for the rival game against Wilson the next day.
The following day they played the Wilson Bruins. Poly started off on top scoring 2 runs in the first inning, leading until the fourth inning where the Bruins scored 3 runs. From this point on Wilson led the rest of the game and it ended with a 5-2 loss to the Bruins. This was the last game of the Moore League and from the Jackrabbits were headed to the Division 1 CIF playoffs. The season was cut short with a 5-1 loss against the Edison Chargers, earlier last week.
It was a pretty intense game as the Chargers took an early lead, scoring 5 straight in the second inning. The Jackrabbits were in a shut out until the fifth inning when they were able to score a run. This was the only run the Jackrabbits were able to score and they ended the game with a 5-1 loss.
The Jackrabbits had a great season but unfortunately could not finish on top.
“This team is really close. We were friends before high school and we have grown even closer three years later. ,” said juniot Deyvn Collado.
“We hate to see the seniors go and we wish we could of finished the season better for them. Next season were losing a great pitcher so hopefully the team is ready to step up because we have a lot of talent coming up next year.” Poly says goodbye to seniors, Paul Estrada, Josh Fischer, Noah Belkin, Emiliano Estrada, Jacob Zinger, Josh Rios, Val Stammler, James Crabtree-Hannigan, and Eddie Oliver.
“It was good experience to pitch for Poly. If I had got got into pitching, I would not have gotten a scholarship for baseball, specfically pitching at Cal State Fullerton,” said Rios.
Though it was not the ideal way to end the season it is still time to say goodbye to the seniors and time for the returning team to go into offseason ready to prepare for next year.
“ We’re preparing next season with team practice and conditioning,” said junior Taylor Gravey.“We’re getting started early with offseason work for next season so hopefully we’re able to get on top of the ball.”
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