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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – Life is good when your No. 9 hitter is your hottest hitter.
That No. 9 hitter for JSerra is junior left fielder Jake Taylor. His streak of seven hits in seven at-bats included two bloop singles Wednesday as the Lions defeated Ayala of Chino Hills 5-3 in the second round of the Boras Classic baseball tournament at JSerra High.
The Lions (11-8) will play the Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks (15-3) game in the tournament semifinal Thursday at 6 p.m. at JSerra.
JSerra’s win also should move it up in the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 rankings. This week’s Division 1 top 10 has Ayala and JSerra at No. 10. Notre Dame is No. 8 in Division 1.
JSerra, No. 5 in the Orange County top 25, is 8-3 since returning from a 0-4 trip to Georgia where the general population was friendlier than the teams that played against JSerra.
Michael Curialle and Blake Klassen both had two hits, a single and double for each, on Wednesday and both scored a run.
JSerra junior OF Jake Taylor had seven hits in seven ABs including two bloop singles Wednesday in JSerra’s 5-3 win over Ayala @TheBorasClassic (streak ended in his final AB today) @ocvarsity @JSerraLionsBB @LesLukach pic.twitter.com/pk91ja52l7
— Steve Fryer (@SteveFryer) March 28, 2019
Taylor said his hot streak was the product of simply putting the ball in play. Three of the seven hits were bunt singles.
“No real secret,” Taylor said. “I was just trying to hit the ball hard and do my job.”
Lions senior right-hander Ryan Farmer pitched 5 2/3 innings in which he gave up one earned run. Junior righty Jared Glenn finished up.
Ayala (14-3) plays Rancho Bernardo (8-3-1) Thursday at 3 p.m. at JSerra.
Taylor in the top of the second inning – JSerra was the visiting team – dropped a single into shallow center field to drive in Gabe D’Arcy and put the Lions on top 1-0.
Ayala tied it in its half of the second with the help of a JSerra error. The Bulldogs could have scored more if not for JSerra center fielder Nino Vultaggio’s running catch of a deep fly that Vultaggio initially misjudged.
The Lions scored twice in the third. An Ayala error allowed Curialle to cross the plate and D’Arcy’s sacrifice fly sent home Klassen for a 3-1 lead.
Ayala tied it again with two runs in the third inning thanks to back-to-back, run-scoring singles by Cole Koniarsky and Sean McLeod.
Taylor’s bloop single over the head of Ayala’s first baseman in the fourth inning advanced Colby Canales to second base, from where Canales scored on a double by Curialle to put JSerra ahead 4-3.
“When you’re going good,” said JSerra coach Brett Kay of Taylor, “everything works.”
Cody Schrier hit a solo home run in the seventh to make it 5-3.
The Boras Classic has a Southern California and Northern California component. The Southern California and Northern California champions meet in the tournament championship game April 27 at the University of San Diego.
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