PLACENTIA — The outcome of the nonleague baseball game Tuesday between Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks and El Dorado wasn’t the outcome Golden Hawks coach Matt Lucas and his players wanted.
The Knights defeated El Dorado, 9-7, thanks to Troy Trejo’s tiebreaking, two-run homer in the top of the seventh inning at El Dorado High School.
El Dorado, ranked No. 7 in Orange County, gave up four home runs overall, including a pair to Jacob Madrid.
But despite the loss, Lucas was pleased with the way several of the players for the Golden Hawks (2-1) came through in the clutch and how the team battled back after falling behind 6-1.
“This team has shown they can come back,” Lucas said. “They believe in themselves. They are not scared when they get down. It started back in the fall and winter for us, when we were competing against really good teams and beating good teams.”
El Dorado fell behind early when Madrid’s three-run home run in the first inning and Benett Pace’s solo homer in the second gave the Knights (3-0) a 4-1 lead.
Notre Dame added two more in the third to make the score 6-1.
Xavi Cadena got the Hawks back into the game with a three-run homer in the third.
Madrid hit his second home run to make extend Notre Dame’s lead to 7-4.
Then with two outs and two runners on in the fifth, pinch hitter Miles Renteria came through with an RBI single for El Dorado.
Aiden Laskey followed with a run-scoring single and pinch hitter Logan Steenburgen followed with an RBI single that tied the score, 7-7.
El Dorado stopped Notre Dame from scoring in the top of the fifth. Pitcher Steven Duran came in with two runners on and one out. The senior got the final two outs, which kept the score close enough for the Hawks to tie the score in their half of the fifth inning.
El Dorado had runners on second and third with one out in the sixth but Notre Dame reliever A.J. La Sota, Virginia commit, retired the next two hitters.
Trejo broke the tie with a two-run homer in the seventh, the Knights’ fourth homer of the game.
Sota got the Hawks in order in the bottom of the seventh.
“They’re a good team,” Lucas said of the Knights. “They come from a good league, but you know what, we are a good team too and we’re going to be a really good team by the end of the year.”
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