The mighty Murrieta Mesa Rams rolled into Temecula Tuesday, April 5, and left another local team stunned as they powered past the Great Oak Wolfpack, 3-1.
The game, which was a scoreless pitchers duel for the first four innings between Southwestern League aces, Mesa’s Zac Filos and Great Oak’s Zack Noll, would have to go one way or the other as the day went on, and it would be the Rams in the end that would have the final say.
Murrieta Mesa would be the first to strike in the top of the fifth when Austen Salcedo scored on a Kevin Palm hit, but Great Oak answered right back in the bottom of the inning when Trevor Lawrence scored on a Carson Seymour sacrifice.
With the game knotted up at one-run in the sixth, senior Hunter Woodruff would connect on a Noll fastball that drove in two runs, scoring junior Kiel Palm and senior Christion Anderson, putting the Rams up by two going into the bottom of the sixth.
Filos, who picked up his fifth win, pitched a gem for Murrieta Mesa, walking one and striking out three batters in his 5 and 1/3 innings pitched, but it would be sophomore Tony Carreon that would get the call to quiet the Wolpfack bats in relief, and that’s exactly what the young mound commander did.
Carreon, with his second save of the season, walked one and struck out two in his no-run performance, while Great Oak’s Zack Noll went a complete seven, striking out 6 batters and walking two. Murrieta Mesa’s Justin Randle had the other hit for the Ram’s, launching a double early in the game.
Three Great Oak errors could be major contributors in this second of their league losses, but the Wolfpack, who went 1-3 in the famed Boras Classic last week, will try to bounce back when they face Murrieta Valley Thursday, April 7.
Murrieta Mesa, who are now ranked #7 in the latest CIF-SS polls, went 2-2 in the Anaheim Lions tournament last week and will finish off their first round of league games against Chaparral Thursday, April 7, as well. Next week begins the second round of league games where every team will play each other twice, back-to-back, with a home and away game.
Game times are at 3:30 p.m.
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