Nick Malvini

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• May 02, 2024

They’re still dancing. No matter how the Westcliff baseball team wraps the Cal Pac championships this week in Mesa, AZ, they have already made history. A year after the Warriors were bounced in the third round of the tournament, the Dubs did the bouncing this time around, sending home No. 3 Simpson with a 6-5 win in 11 innings.

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• May 01, 2024

Those unfamiliar with the Warriors’ seeding at the 2024 Cal Pac baseball championships may have been scratching their heads at the start of Wednesday’s 6-3, tournament-opening win over Park. Camden Cooper toed the rubber, rather than Warriors’ ace Eddie Rios. But the move by Westcliff skipper Dylan Hoffman was one of confidence, in Cooper and his team — and strategy — because if it worked out, the Warriors would be set up for their best chance at tournament success. As planned, Cooper was fantastic, and when he slowed, Kyle Douphner picked up right where the starter left off and the Warriors cruised to the win.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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. 

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.