Baseball: Mission League title goes to Crespi
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Encino Crespi Coach Scott Muckey somehow got his team a Mission League championship on Thursday with a 4-3 victory over Los Angeles Loyola, but how the Celts pulled it off will be long discussed.
Left-hander Ryan Brockett was Crespi’s starting pitcher. He was pulled in the fifth for center fielder Josh Mason, who got three outs while Brockett replaced him in center field. Then Brockett went back onto the mound to start the sixth. Again, Muckey brought in the right-handed Mason to get three outs. In the seventh, Brockett went back to the mound. He got two outs before Mason came back to get the final out. Mason got the victory and the save.
Asked what he was doing, Muckey said, ‘I’m an idiot.’
Crespi took the lead in the sixth on an RBI single by Brockett and an RBI single by Michael Hubbard. Crespi (22-5, 9-3) finishes one game ahead of West Hills Chaminade and Mission Hills Alemany, which defeated Chaminade, 1-0.
-- Eric Sondheimer