The Calvary Christian Lions clinched their second straight Citrus West League title by shutting out the 2nd place Guajome Park Academy Frogs 6-0.
Russell Harmening and Brock Bentley combined for Calvary's 11th shutout of the season. Harmening threw the first 6 innings and Bentley threw the final frame to close out the game. Combined they allowed only 2 hits, 2 walks and struck out 8. The shutout lowered the Calvary pitching staff's season ERA to a microscopic 1.19.
It was an historic day for Harmening because when he struckout Frog hitter Connor Roys looking in the 4th inning, it was his 300th career strikeout. He finished the game with 303 career strikeouts which puts him in the record books as 10th in CIF history.
Calvary came out swinging when David Carpenter lead off the game by hustling for his 12th infield hit of the season. A hard groundout by Sam Sheehan forced Carpenter at second. Sheehan stole second and Matt Hartman walked putting runners on 1st and 2nd for Harmening who lined an RBI single scoring Sheehan. Both runners advanced on a wild pitch and Caleb Whitley made them pay when he knocked them both in with a single through the third base hole giving Calvary an early 3-0 lead.
They added their 4th run in the 4th inning when Hartman and Harmening led off with back-to-back singles. Hartman later scored on an Isaac Conover RBI groundout.
They capped off their scoring by adding 2 more runs in the 5th inning when David Flores, who had already doubled in his first at bat, hit a deep ball to the right-center gap that he legged into a triple. He scored when Carpenter grounded to short and the ball was mishandled for an error. Carpenter came around to score on a Hartman sacrifice fly.
Calvary is now 22-5 on the year and is 7-0 in Citrus League play. They have two regular season games remaining, their final league game vs. Lutheran on Tuesday 5/15 at Calvin Christian and a non-league contest versus highly ranked La Jolla Country Day on Thursday 5/17 at 4:00 at La Jolla Country Day.
Tuesday's game will honor Calvary's 6 seniors. Be there if you can!
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