Julian Tristan

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• 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.

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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 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 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.

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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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• 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.

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• January 09, 2023

2022 was a trying year for the Westcliff baseball team. Beginning with fall ball, and coming off a banner inaugural year that included wins over national champion Chapman, as well as Concordia, it looked as though the Warriors were poised to make noise in their first year of Cal Pac play. But then tragedy struck over Christmas break, when starting pitcher JJ Sanchez — whom many considered the emotional heart and soul of the team — passed away as a result of an automobile accident in Northern California. The loss of Sanchez devastated the team and the coaching staff, and although they played through it as best they could, it was obvious to anyone in and around the program that overcoming the loss would be impossible — the season seemed almost inconsequential. Time has done a lot to heal those wounds.