San Marcos baseball completed the season sweep of Oxnard High with a back-and-forth 8-5 victory on Friday in Oxnard.
The Royals opened the day with two runs in the top of the first on a two-run homer by Quinn Melton, but the Yellow Jackets answered with two runs in the second to tie things up.
San Marcos punched back with four runs in the third courtesy of a three-run bomb off the bat of Mason Crang and a Landon Johnson RBI sacrifice fly to take a 6-2 lead.
Oxnard trimmed the deficit to 6-5 with three runs in the top of the fourth, and the seesaw action continued in the fifth as the Royals tacked on two more runs on a passed ball and a squeeze by Diego Alvarez.
Crang then tossed a scoreless fifth and sixth innings before Miles Herbert slammed the door with a scoreless seventh.
Melton and Crang each went 2-for-4 at the plate for the Royals, while Melton and Miles Herbert each scored twice.
Crang started the game on the mound, allowing four earned runs and striking out six in six innings of work.
San Marcos, now 8-2 in Channel League play and in first place, will be on the road against Pacifica on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.
Carpinteria High 4, Santa Paula 2
The Warriors pulled off the upset win over the first-place Cardinals on Friday in Carpinteria.
After Santa Paula opened the scoring with two runs in the first, Carpinteria evened the score in the third thanks to an RBI double by Jonah Hernandez and a Dallas Bartholic RBI single.
The Warriors took their first lead of the day in the fourth when Gabe Martinez reached on an infield single, stole second, advanced to third on a wild pitch and came home on a throwing error.
Carpinteria then tacked on an insurance run when Hernandez singled home Sam Medel to bring the game to its final score of 4-2.
Hernandez fired a complete game on the mound for the Warriors, scattering four hits while striking out three batters. He also paced the offensive attack with three hits and a pair of RBI.
“It was a good high school baseball game. We had bad luck in the first inning, but nobody panicked and momentum shifted,” Carpinteria High head coach Pat Cooney said.
“Jonah was fantastic. He was ahead of hitters and very efficient. He pitched to contact, and the defense made plays behind him. It takes a lot of little pieces to go well for the underdog to win a game like that. Every single person between the lines and outside the lines gets to share in a fun result.”
The Warriors (12-5, 4-4 Citrus Coast League) will host Malibu on Wednesday at John Calderwood Field.