Keaton Slack

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• January 30, 2023

The Westcliff baseball team took it on the chin last weekend in a three-game home-and-home series with Vanguard to open the 2023 season. The Lions won all three contests, 3-1 at home Friday, then 17-1 and 2-0 at the Great Park on a double-dip Saturday.