A St. Patrick\’s Day Loss for Barons\’ Baseball

By Camille Linares-Reed, Staff writer

On Tuesday, March 17th, the boys\’ varsity baseball team lost to Tesoro High School. Tesoro held with a firm six run lead almost the whole game. With only two runs scored by junior, Eddie Alvarez (batted in by senior, Ray Strazzula) and senior, Loren Robb, spectators could say that the boys didn\’t quite perform to the best of their abilities.

With the exception of a couple of losses, one to Servite on March 6th and one to Edison on March 14th, the Barons had been doing well. The large loss to Tesoro on Tuesday however, definitely left the boys slightly discouraged.

“I wasn\’t too pleased with the outcome of our game.  We are a much better team than they were and we should have won that game.  We just weren\’t into the game mentally, and there was a lack of focus. I\’m not really sure about what went wrong, we are usually much better than that,” says sophomore John Goldsby.

Despite the final outcome, there were some standout players in the game. Pitcher and junior, Kyle Ball led the first part of the game with numerous strikeouts even though he had a shoulder injury. Senior Ray Strazzula also had a great game by batting in a runner, junior Eddie Alvarez. Strazzula had major arm surgery last year but seems to be on the come-back this season.

As the game against Tesoro drew to a close, the boys performed stronger than the first half by scoring two points. Tesoro, however, scored two more points though to round the ending score to eight to two, sealing the Baron\’s fate

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Despite the disappointing defeat, the Baron boys continue to stay driven and focused. “This one [game] stung,” says sophomore Danny Jimenez. “But we are going to do better next time.”