2025 Prep Baseball Scores / Highlights

By Nick Pellegrino
Updated: February 26, 2025

2025 EAST COUNTY PREP BASEBALL

WEEK ONE
Wed., Feb. 26
Ramona 16, at Valley Center 1 – The Bulldogs scored 7 times in the second inning to mount a 10-09 advantage that evetually reached 12 runs.

Tue., Feb. 25
Mountain Empire def. Warner, forfeit
CAMPO — What we know: At the start of the U.S. Civil War in 1861, stagecoach service in Warner Springs was discontinued and the Union Army established Camp Wright, a cavalry outpost at the ranch to protect the route from Southern California to Fort Yuma (thanks Wikipedia).

What we don’t know: the reason the arner ildcats forfeited their baseball season opener to the Mountian Empire RedHawks (1-0).

SD-High Tech 8, Mount Miguel 1
SPRING VALLEY — Mount Miguel senior Braylon Cardwell slugged an RBI double in his first career at-bat for the school’s varsity ballclub, but the Matadors fell to the Storm of San Diego-High Tech, 8-1, in Tuesday’s (Feb, 23) season opener.

The drive by Cardwell, a pinch-hitter, brought home another late-inning substitute in Pierson . Williams to avoid the shutout in the seventh.

The batting standout was Nano Acevedo, batting 4-for-4 with a triple, double, 2 RBI and scored all four times for the Strom (1-0).

Orange Glen 23, ECVHS 2 (5 inn.)
EL CAJON – The Patriots from southeast Escondido scored 11 times in the first inning, then 8 more times in the fifth.

OG;s Jacob Morales collected five RBI on 3-for-4 hitting, with a triple and four runs scored.

SD-Southwest 17, Liberty Charter 5
NESTOR – By the time the Liberty Charter Lions tallied four times in the fifth inning, they already were trailing 14-0 to the Southwest Raiders in Tuesday’s (Feb. 23) opener.

Raiders sophomore Aaron Diaz drove in three runs, as SW scored fives time in the third, then nine times in the fourth.

This was the first-ever meeting between the schools.

Mon., Feb. 24
Mar Vista 4, Foothills Christian 1

IMPERIAL BEACH – Foothills Christian opened the 2025 campaign with a bang when sophomore J.J. . Jansen Granillo slugged a double, eventually scoring for a 1-0 lead in the firts inning.

Unfortunately for the Knights, it was their lone basehiot of the ballgame, as host Mar Vista tooka 4-1 decision on Monday (Feb. 22).

Mariners pitchers Peter Thomas and Jake Leslie combined on the 1-hitter.

Noah Esqueda provided the key hit was an RBI triple, when Mar Vista scored al

Ramona 5, at Otay Ranch 5, tie (7 inn., darkness)

OTAY MESA – Ramona raced to a 5-0 lead on opening day, but Otay Ranch rallied, inculduing a pair of Mustangs runs in the fofth inning in a 5-5 draw on Monday (Feb. 24). The ballgame was called after seven innings due to darkness.

Four different Bulldogs knocked in runs, including a solo home run by sophomore Derek Taylor. who provided three of the Dagws four hits.

For Otay Ranch, Nick Mendoza smacked an RBU double, when the M’s scored all four of its runs in the fourth.

Among the pitchers, Ramona’s Jakob Coxen tossed a pair of shutout innings. The Otay Ranch bullpens featured five shutout frames by Luis Sachez (3 IP) and Moyses Salido (2 IP).

Thurs., Feb. 27
Foothills Christian at Lincoln, 3 p.m.
Liberty Charter at ECVHS, 3 p.m.
Mount Miguel at SD-Southwest, 3:30 p.m.
River Valley (Ariz.) at Holtville, 6 p.m.