DANA POINT – The Dana Hills baseball team committed eight errors Wednesday.
And won.
Dana Hills sophomore Ryan See’s line drive down the left-field line in the bottom of the seventh inning sent home Tommy Moro with the winning run for a 9-8 walk-off victory over Aliso Niguel in a South Coast League game at Dana HIlls High.
“That was a weird one,” See said.
The Dolphins’ chances for securing a playoff berth improved Wednesday. They are 5-5-1 in the five-team South Coast League. Dana Hills’ chief competition for the league’s third and final guaranteed playoff berth most likely is Tesoro, which is 4-4 in league. Aliso Niguel is 5-3 in league.
Trabuco Hills beat Tesoro 3-1 on Wednesday to improve to 5-3 in league to form a first-place tie with Aliso.
Dana Hills (10-12-1 overall) plays its final league game Friday at Aliso Niguel (18-16). Dana Hills will still have three league games remaining, all against Tesoro. Those teams start a three-game series Monday at Tesoro.
“We kind of have our backs against the wall right now,” said Dana Hills coach Tom Faris, “and we’re fighting our way through it.”
Aliso Niguel is No. 13 in the Orange County Top 25 and Dana Hills is not ranked.
The game consumed 3 hours and 2 minutes. The first inning needed 29 minutes to complete. There was only one 1-2-3 inning.
Aliso Niguel trailed at three different times Wednesday, including an 8-7 deficit going into the seventh inning.
Jason Orwat led off the seventh for the Wolverines with a walk and advanced to third base on a single by Hudson Covington. Cooper Flemming reached on an error, with Orwat crossing the plate on the play for an 8-8 tie.
Moro led off the Dana Hills half of the seventh with a single, moved to second base on a sacrifice bunt by Brad Lewis and scored from second when See pulled a high fastball to left field to end the game.
It was a pitch that See anticipated.
“The last couple of at-bats they threw it up,” he said. “So I was thinking another was going to be up.”
Aliso Niguel scored three runs in the top of the first inning. The left-handed hitting Flemming, who took a .385 batting average into the game, got the first of his three hits to start the game. Flemming, Jarett Sabol and Austin Hays scored in the first with the help of the first two Dana Hills errors.
Dana Hills scored five runs in the bottom of the first in which the Dolphins sent 10 batters to the plate. Two runs came on bases-loaded walks and Ryan Georgia and Luke Blankenship had runs-scoring hits. The inning ended with Dana Hills on top 5-3.
Aliso Niguel tied it two runs in the top of the fourth inning. Flemming contributed an RBI single. The other run was scored on one of Dana Hills’ three errors in the inning.
Dana Hills regained the lead 7-5 with two runs in the bottom of the fourth. Brody Bateson, who took a .313 batting average into the game, opened the inning with a single and scored on Evan Daly’s single. An Aliso Niguel error provided the other Dolphins run.
The Wolverines tied it again with two runs in the top of the fifth inning. Two Dana Hills errors were involved.
Dana Hills took an 8-7 lead in its half of the fifth. Tommy Burked hit a double and scored on a fielder’s choice.
Aliso Niguel tied the game again in the top of seventh, and See’s hit would get the Dolphins the win in the bottom of that inning.
Faris, in his 21st season coaching Dana Hills baseball, said the Dolphins have been the team that comes out the loser of a dramatic ending.
“We’ve lost three or four league games on that kind of stuff that ends a game,” Faris said. “It’s nice that our guys figured out a way to get through it like this. I’m proud of them.”
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