Baseball

• Baseball
• April 06, 2024

The Westcliff baseball team had a rough Saturday at the Great Park, wasting an elite performance from starter Camden Cooper in a 2-0 Game 1 loss, before Simpson captured the series with an 8-1 rubber-match victory.

• Baseball
• April 05, 2024

Eddie Rios has been there and done that. Friday afternoon at the Great Park when his team needed him to deliver the most, Westcliff’s ace came through one more time. Rios mowed down nine Red Hawks in seven innings of two-run ball, scattering just four hits along the way and the Warriors picked up a huge win over second-place Simpson, 10-4.

• Baseball
• March 24, 2024

• Baseball
• March 19, 2024

The Westcliff baseball team welcomed Master’s University to the Great Park Tuesday afternoon and the visitors walked away with a hard-fought 4-3 win. After allowing double-digits in a loss at Master’s earlier this season, Westcliff nearly pulled off the upset. 

• Baseball
• March 14, 2024

The Westcliff baseball team scored four in the second and six in the third to take a 10-0 lead into fourth inning before wrapping up a Game 1 laugher, 23-3, Thursday morning at the Great Park. Westcliff took home the sweep with a 7-4 win in Game 2.

• Baseball
• March 10, 2024

The Westcliff basketball team took one win home after a three-game road trip to La Sierra in Riverside that concluded Sunday. The victory was a 7-6 final in Game 2. The Warriors dropped Game 1, 16-12, and Game 3, 4-3.

• Baseball
• March 04, 2024

• Baseball
• February 26, 2024

• Baseball
• February 20, 2024

• Baseball
• January 31, 2024

For those baseball fans of a certain age, the name Greg Maddux is of the household variety.  Maddux was a starting pitcher who won the World Series with the Atlanta Braves.  He was a master tactician on the mound, using speed variation and pin-point control to flummox hitters and eventually earn himself a spot in the Hall of Fame.  But for as good as Maddux was, he was also notorious for disastrous first innings.  Part of what made Maddux so good was ability to recover in games that didn’t start well.  Just as often as Maddux put himself at a disadvantage early in a game was he also just as often able to quickly lock down after a shaky start and dominate the rest of the game.  Such was the script for the Westcliff No. 1 starter Eddie Rios Wednesday at the Great Park, where the Warriors honored their fallen friend JJ Sanchez with a pregame moment of silence, then followed up with a tidy 5-4 win over Bethesda in the first of two. 

• Baseball
• January 29, 2024

Eddie Rivero is a baseball player who exemplifies what’s best about the 5Cs culture of Westcliff Athletics. Rivero is a humble, selfless, vocal leader who plays through significant physical pain with the highest amount of effort that could be asked of a college student-athlete. Rivero’s leadership was on full display Saturday at Long Beach City College, where he not only secured the two-game sweep ( 13-3, 2-0) of Cal Tech with a clutch, pinch-hit single in the bottom of the eighth, but also did every other added task leaders must accept with his trademark smile and energy.

• Baseball
• January 27, 2024

It wasn’t pretty Friday in Fullerton, where the Westcliff baseball team met NAIA No. 11 Hope International at Amerige Park to open the 2024 season. The Royals took home two wins, 20-5 in the opener, and 13-6 in the nightcap. Although the outcome was disappointing, there were a number of bright spots for first-year head coach Dylan Hoffman and the Warriors. Perhaps brightest was the output from new cleanup hitter, 3B Ian Avalos, who hit a pair of solo shots, one in each contest.

• Baseball
• January 23, 2024

It’s been an offseason of the change for the Westcliff Baseball program. Former skipper Dave Shermet was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director of Westcliff Player Personnel, and former pitching coach Dylan Hoffman was promoted to head coach.  The Warriors also graduated a hefty sum of highlight players, including reigning Cal Pac MVP and NAIA All American, Uly Duran.  While others, like reliever Julian Tristan, departed to pursue professional baseball opportunities.  Although much has changed, much remains the same. 

• Baseball
• June 07, 2023

• Baseball
• May 08, 2023

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson published these words in 1992 and in 2005, they were popularized in American mainstream culture by the film Coach Carter, in which the character Timo Cruz (Rick Gonzalez) recites them at the movie’s climax, delivering the narrative’s theme. That theme is simply this: Everyone in this world has something to offer, and that only by embracing our personalities and maximizing our talents — truly allowing ourselves to shine brightest — do we make the world a better place. It was a quote and a sentiment that Westcliff baseball head coach David Shermet returned to time and again in 2023.

• Baseball
• May 04, 2023

They’re not leaving. It’s been an wildly unpredictable California Pacific Conference championship baseball tournament this week in Mesa, Arizona, where NAIA No. 15, Benedictine Mesa, is playing host at the Oakland A’s spring training facility, Hohokam Stadium. The craziness started in the Game 1 when fifth-seeded Simpson upset No. 4 Embry-Riddle on the strength of an eight-run frame. Simpson then followed that doozy up by shocking No. 1 Ben U with a five-run frame in the top of the ninth to waltz into tomorrow’s winner’s matchup with No. 3 Antelope Valley, who took out No. 2 Westcliff in Game 2, 7-4. In Wednesday’s nightcap, the Warriors met ERAU in the loser’s bracket elimination contest, and the game lived up to its billing, with both sides pitching well in a thrilling 6-5 Westcliff win.

• Baseball
• April 29, 2023

The Westcliff baseball team scored a crucial, walk-off win Saturday at the Great Park, 8-7, over Cal Pac leader Benedictine Mesa. The game meant nothing in terms of playoff seeding, but it meant everything in terms of psyche and momentum.

• Baseball
• April 21, 2023

The Westcliff baseball team got back on track Friday at the Great Park, picking up a pair of wins, 11-6 in Game 1 and 25-5 in Game 2.

• Baseball
• April 20, 2023

It was a frustrating afternoon at the Great Park Thursday, where La Sierra thoroughly outplayed the Westcliff baseball team in a 12-7 finish. The Warriors committed another four errors, and can once again blame their own mistakes for a loss.

• Baseball
• April 16, 2023

No one call can dictate the entirety of a baseball game, but one bad call at the right moment can flip momentum and turn the tide of a baseball game. From the Westcliff baseball team’s perspective, that’s exactly what took place Saturday at the Great Park, where Bethesda scored four in the top of the ninth to claim a 4-2 win.

• Baseball
• April 14, 2023

With pitching coach Dylan Hoffman absent from the ballpark Friday morning, it was an emotional day, as the Westcliff baseball team had two eyes on the business at hand, and the mind’s eye alongside their missing coach and family member in the dugout. But with Bethesda visiting the Great Park and Westcliff on the precipice of making school history, Friday’s games played on, with the Warriors capturing a pair of wins, 11-1 in the opener and 11-8 late.

• Baseball
• April 03, 2023

Someone throw a bucket of water on Caleb Castanchoa. The kid’s on fire. Sunday was a day of offense at the Great Park, with the home team completing a sweep of Saint Katherine with wins of 10-9 and 15-4. No bat reigned more supreme than Castanchoa’s, who did whatever he wanted.

• Baseball
• April 01, 2023

It was good night for Eddies Friday at the Great Park where Eddies Rios and Rivero led the Westcliff baseball team to its ninth Cal Pac win in 10 tries, this time 8-0 over Saint Katherine.

• Baseball
• March 19, 2023

Saturday at the Great Park was an interesting eight hours for the Westcliff baseball team. The Warriors picked up their second Cal Pac sweep of the season, this time over Antelope Valley, a result not many would have predicted heading into the weekend. But after winning Game 1, 8-6, and Game 2, 15-10, the Warriors left the park with a bad taste in their mouths having allowed the Pioneers to score eight runs in the final three frames.

• Baseball
• March 17, 2023

The Westcliff baseball team picked up such an impressive 8-4 comeback win over fellow Cal Pac wins-leader Antelope Valley Friday at the Great Park, it’s hard to decide who to heap praise on the most.

• Baseball
• March 11, 2023

The Westcliff baseball team backed up its Cal Pac-opening sweep of Providence by taking two out of three at Park in Gilbert, AZ., over the weekend. Westcliff took Game 1, 10-6, and Game 2, 8-1 on Friday. On Saturday, a crazy back-and-forth contest left the Warriors holding the short end of the stick, 10-9.

• Baseball
• March 04, 2023

Days of baseball don’t get much better than this. Saturday at Vanguard University, Westcliff played visitor to the visiting Sea Beggars from Pasadena, and came away with a doubleheader sweep, 19-0 and 23-0.

• Baseball
• March 03, 2023

A year ago, the Providence Christian series marked the low point in a season the Westcliff baseball team struggled through emotionally. Outscored 28-8 in three at America Park, tempers finally boiled over for the Warriors in Fullerton, and the series would long be remembered as rough, to put it politely. So this weekend’s series against the Beggars of the Sea provided a unique opportunity for a little payback. A chance for the Warriors to make Providence miserable. How sweet it is. Friday in Pasadena, the Warriors put it on Providence, 8-1.

• Baseball
• February 17, 2023

The Westcliff baseball team’s late inning struggles reared their ugly head once again Saturday at the Great Park, where the Warriors surrendered a three-run lead in the final two frames to fall to Chapman 8-6.

• Baseball
• February 13, 2023

The Westcliff baseball team swept away San Diego Christian Saturday at the Great Park, completing a four-game sweep with two wins — 14-10, and 4-1. In Game 1, Eddie Rivero, Ulysses Duran, Nolan Wasson, Ray Moore, Jr., Evan Rocha and Zane Parmenter all collected two hits, and Daniel Esquada added a 13th as the Warriors went up 11-5 in the third.

• Baseball
• February 11, 2023

• Baseball
• February 04, 2023

After a frustrating loss to start the day Saturday at Vanguard, the Westcliff baseball team finally leaped off the Schneid with a 7-0 win over Bethesda.