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Mason Novak does well in the Arizona Senior Fall
Academic game: http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/college/2011/10/arizona-senior-fall-classic-kicks-off-with-academic-game/ ---------------------------------------------------------
ECR Alum (2005) Ryan Lavarnway hits first MLB HR,
a 3-run shot for the Red Sox 9/27/11: http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2011_09_27_bosmlb_balmlb_1&highlight_content_id=19714963&c_id=bos -------------------------------------------
Ryan Lavarnway picks up his first Major
League basehit in his second game with the Boston Red Sox (8/19/11). -----------------------------------
2005 Alum Ryan Lavarnway gets called up to the Big Club!!! - Good luck Ryan, we are all rooting for you!!! -------------------------------------
Two former ECR Baseball Players are on
same MLB team in Boston: Conor Jackson (2000) & Ryan Lavarnway (2005). Conor was traded from Oakland and Ryan was promoted
from AAA, his second call up this season. ---------------------------------
Three pitchers combined to 3-hit Chatsworth,
but 4-unearned runs in the 3rd inning was the difference in the ball game, in a 5-2 loss. Justin Russell pitched 4.1 giving
up 3 hits and 5 runs (1 earned), Luke Laurita came in with one out and bases loaded to get out of the inning, and sophomore
Dylan Savoie pitched a scoreless 6th. Russell also had 2-hits on the day. Chris Scalisi was 2-3 with 2 RBI. ECR finished
the summer with a 17-7 record
Summer Leaders: AB - 79 (Novak)
IP - 46.1 (Laurita) Runs - 27 (Novak)
K's - 29 (Russell) Hits - 36 (Novak & Rappoport)
ERA - 0.29 (Dergazarian) RBI - 27 (Dergazarian)
Wins - 6 (Laurita) BB - 19 (Nicholson) 2B - 9 (Novak) 3B - 2 (Nicholson) HR - 2 (Nicholson) SB
- 13 (Nicholson) AVG. - .461 (Rappoport)
2004 Alum Blake Gailen called up to AA
Arkansas: http://m.journalstar.com/sports/baseball/saltdogs/article_68260d56-d9e4-52c4-9cb9-a140dbe3fd84.html --------------------------------------
Luke Laurita pitches a 73 pitch complete
game, scattering 6 hits, in a 1-0 victory over Simi Valley. ECR moves on to play Chatsworth in the final Friday 7/29 @
7:00pm @ Birmingham. Yannick Villanueva was 2-3 with an RBI -------------------------------------
Ryan Lavarnway earns Player of the Week
honors for the week of July 18-24: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/pow/index.jsp -------------------------------------
Owen Perry scatters 7 hits in a complete
game effort in a 9-1 victory over the #1 seed West Ranch. #8 ECR will be @ #5 Simi Valley. Nick Snyder was 2-3
with 2RBI, Chris Nicholson hit a solo HR. ----------------------------------------
Justin Russell pitches a complete game for the 2nd
RD victory over Birmingham. Mitchell Dergazarian and Matt Mackey had 2 RBI and Hayden Rappoport was 4-4 in the 11-3 Victory.
#8 ECR will play at #1 West Ranch Monday 7/25 @ 5pm in a quarterfinal matchup --------------------------------------------
Luke Laurita pitches a complete game in 5-1 victory
over Canyon. #8 ECR will play at #24 Birmingham Friday @ 5pm. Updated bracket http://www.westranchbaseball.com/vibl/vibl2011.htm ------------------------------------------------------

2005 Alum Ryan Lavarnway continues his
hot hitting with 2HR and 6 RBI in his last 2 games. Click on Photo above to read about him. -------------------------------------
Ryan Lavarnway hits 8th HR to lead Pawtucket to
a victory: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110715&content_id=21842988&vkey=news_t533&fext=.jsp&sid=t533 ------------------------------------------------------------
Lavarnway goes into all-star break hitting 2 hr in one
game giving him 7 so far in Triple-A http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110710&content_id=21708382&vkey=news_t533&fext=.jsp&sid=t533 ------------------------------------------
2005 Ryan Lavarnway hits 4th HR of the season and
18th overall between Double-A & Triple A: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?content_id=16460173 ----------------------------------------------------------
Congratulations to OF Chris Nicholson for making
the South Team for the North vs. South baseball series. Chris will compete on Sat & Sun June 18th & 19th down at San
Diego State in a 3-game series. Here is the website for the series: http://www.eteamz.com/cbca/ --------------------------------------
Congratulations to 2009 Alum Alex Mejia for earning
2011 All Pac-10 Honors: http://www.arizonawildcats.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/053111aab.html -------------------------------------------------------
6/1/11 vs. San Fernando (Semi-finals @ USC) ECR
stranded 4 runners in the first 3 innings and the offense did not get anything started until the 6th inning. Down 1-0 nothing
in the bottom of the 6th, Oscar Tinjaca got the first hit (a single) for ECR. JJ Crane pinch
ran for Oscar and Mason Novak got down a sac bunt to move Crane to 2nd. With 2 outs, Jake Mills tripled
down the right field line to tie up the score. Moving on to the 10th inning, San Fernando doubled in a run to take a 2-1 lead
off of AJ Silberman. Chris Whitmer struck out the the next two batters to end the inning. Bottom of the 10th
ECR had a runner on first with 2 outs, but San Fernando finished off the next hitter to earn a trip to Dodger Stadium. A great
pitchers duel
Jose Cardona 8IP 6hits, 8K, 1BB 2HBP AJ Silberman 1.1 IP,
2 Hits, 3 K Chris Whitmer .2IP 2K
ECR Offense could only muster up 4 hits and struck out
11 times.
Great run to a great season gentlemen!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------
5/26/11 vs. Narbonne (RD II of Playoffs) Narbonne
jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the 1st inning, but ECR scored on a Mason Novak (1-2, 2 RBI) Sac
Fly, in the bottom of the 1st to make it 3-1. Narbonne scored an unearned run in the 2nd to take a 4-1 lead. After catcher,
Chris Whitmer, got deliberatley ran over at the plate, the ECR offense responded. Chris Nicholson
(3-4, 3 runs, 4 RBI) hit a solo HR in the 3rd inning, and Chris Whitmer shut down the Gauchos in the 4th
and 5th innings. In the bottom of the fourth with the bases loaded, Nicholson cleared them with a double to straight away
center field to make it 5-4 ECR. ECR scored one more in the 4th to take a 6-4 game into the 7th. Narbonne scored an unearned
run in the 7th, but Jose Cardona pitched the final 2 innings for the save.
ECR had 4 errors on
the day, but the pitching and offense (10 hits & 7 BB) picked up the slack! -------------------------------------------------------------------------
5/24/11 vs. Sylmar (RD I of playoffs) Jose Cardona
dominated the Spartan offense today with a complete game, shutout effort. He induced 12 groundball outs and struck out 7,
while giving up only 1 hit. He also got the Conquistadore offense going with a solo HR in the 1st innings. Mason Novak
(2-2)continued the run scoring with an RBI double in the 3rd inn, in which the RF made an error that allowed another
run to score making it 3-0 ECR. Chris Whitmer drove in 2 runs with a single in the 4th to make it 5-0 ECR
through 4 innings. Jake Mills drove in a run in the 5th making the final score ECR 6 - Sylmar -0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Semifinals are set for Wed June
1st @ USC: #1 Chatsworth vs. # 12 Birmingham - 3:00pm #2 El Camino Real vs. # 6
San Fernando - 6:00pm
* Parking is $8 -----------------------------------------------
ECR will host Narbonne on Thursday in
RD II of the DIV I Playoffs -----------------------------------
Cardona earns 6th win of the season in a 2-hit complete game shutout of Sylmar in round 1 of the DIV I playoffs. ------------------------------------
ECR gets #2 seed in DI City Section Playoffs, and will play the winner of Sylmar-Bell on Tuesday the 24th @ ECR
-------------------------------------- Congrats to Jose Cardona, Chris Whitmer, Chris Nicholson, AJ Silberman and Javier Rodriguez for earning 1st
Team All West Valley honors. Justin Russell earned 2nd Team --------------------------------------
2010 Alum Mitch Bluman pitches well
in first start of the season:
Click on picture for story on Alexander DeLeon's
big day
2005 Alum Ryan Lavarnway hits first MLB Spring
Training HR for the Red Sox
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2005 Alum, Ryan Lavarnway, is set to kick off
his spring training debut against Boston College on Saturday 2/26.
http://tinyurl.com/6jws7zm ----------------------------------------------
In the 2011 Alumni vs. Varsity contest, the alumni got off to an early
1-0 lead on an rbi single by Dave Mughaden (02'), in the 2nd inning. The alumni scored 3 more runs in
the top of the 3rd inning on a a single by Tyler Kolodny (07') and a double by Eric Pettis
(06'), to take a 4-0 lead. The ECR varsity rallied for 4 runs of their own in the next two innings capped off by a Jose
Cardona 2-run HR which tied the score at 4. ECR varsity took a 5-4 lead going into the 8th inning, when the alumni
scored 7 runs, in which the go ahead run was driven in by Mike Callahan (75') on a double. Nick
Eustrom (02') also had an rbi double. Trailing 11-5 bottom of 9, ECR varsity rallied for 5 more runs, but
left the bases loaded to end the game.
HR Derby: VAR Participants:
Alumni Participants: Chris Whitmer (12th)
Blake Gailen (03') Jose Cardona (12th)
Eric Petts (06') Luke Oller (12th)
Dominic D'Anna (07') Chris Nicholson (11th) - 2010 winner
Kent Kruger (00')
Final: Chris Whitmer beats Blake Gailen 4 HR
to 0 in final round
Thank you to the following alumni for making it out, not mentioned above: - Aaron Breslow
(06') -
Alex Casillas (04') - Jason Sabolic (98')
- Matt Tays (94') - Jeff Sweet (85')
- Randy Wolf (94') - Vince Libonati (09') -
Daniel Lee (03') - Greg Achateal (02')
- Sammy Donabedian (05') - Beau Savage (00')
- Adam Donabedian (06') - Rob Levine (85')
- Garrett Claypool (06') - Jeremy Boyle (02')
- Greg Burtch (09') - Chris Scott (02') -
Matt Scarpaci (07') - Rod Boaez (01') -
Sam Scarpaci (07') - Esa Homayun (03') - AJ Homayun (07')
Coaches: George Cliffords &
Mike Maio ----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------- Daily News quick preview to 2011 Season. More to come later http://tinyurl.com/6beouhu ----------------------------------------------------------
LA Times Top Players List 2011
2010 Alumni Mitch Bluman will start at First Base in
first college series, for San Diego State University!!! http://www.thedailyaztec.com/content/uploads/doubletruck2.jpg
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Alumni beat ECR Varsity 11-10 -------------------------------------------
El Camino Real Baseball lost a family
member yesterday. Read article in LA Times about Mark Oleesky. Keep your thoughts and prayers with the Oleesky family. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/varsitytimesinsider/2011/01/baseball-tragedy-at-el-camino-real-event.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+VarsityTimesInsider+%28Varsity+Times+Insider%29 -------------------------------------------
Congratulations
to Senior Jose Cardona for signing a National Letter of Intent to play at Cal State Fullerton!!! ---------------------------------
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