El Camino Real’s Wolf Proves Too Foxy for Kennedy : Baseball: Using a nasty curveball, junior left-hander throws a four-hitter to help Conquistadores maintain domination of Golden Cougars with 12-0 victory.

El Camino Real High junior left-hander Randy Wolf tried to keep a straight face, but it was tough. He’d been grinning from ear to ear for practically 2 1/2 hours.

Asked if he could have possibly envisioned pitching so well against hard-hitting Kennedy, even in a best-case scenario, Wolf bluffed, big time.

Nobody bought it.

“Maybe a no-hitter?” Wolf said, laughing. “Nah. Nothing like this.”

Wolf wasn’t far off the no-hit mark, holding Kennedy to four hits Thursday as El Camino Real trounced the Golden Cougars, 12-0, in a Northwest Valley Conference game at Kennedy.

Wolf, a starting outfielder who didn’t pitch in his first two seasons on the varsity, held Kennedy to four singles. Over the last four innings, when his curveball started to bite with a vengeance, Wolf (2-0) was particularly nasty: He recorded eight of the last 12 outs via strikeout.

Kennedy (5-2, 0-2 in league play) managed two hits over that span, one of which didn’t leave the infield. And the other? Wolf, who struck out 10 and walked three, promptly picked that runner off first base.

El Camino Real (6-1, 2-0) again pummeled Kennedy’s pitching staff. Tuesday, the Conquistadores hammered Kennedy, 10-3. Thursday, right-hander Miguel Diaz--who had not given up an earned run in 17 innings--yielded 14 hits and 10 runs in seven-plus innings. “We probably had more hits off him in one inning than he’d given up in his first two games,” shortstop Dan Cey said.

El Camino Real, which has topped the 10-run plateau in all but one game, banged out 16 hits, including three by Cey and two by Jeff Astgen, Mike Smith, Craig Carlton and Wolf.

Kennedy, which entered the week batting .427, had eight hits in two games and committed nine errors. “I think a lot of it had to do with El Camino Real being a hell of a ballclub,” said Kennedy Coach Manny Alvarado as he watched his team run wind sprints. “And I think we’re a better ballclub than we showed this week.”

El Camino Real jumped on Diaz (2-1) for a 5-0 lead by scoring twice in the first and three times in the second. Astgen and Smith had consecutive run-scoring triples in the second to lead the barrage.

Holding a 9-0 lead, El Camino Real chased Diaz in the seventh and scored three more runs in the process.

It might have been worse, but El Camino Real stranded 11 baserunners.

Wolf finished with style, striking out the side in the bottom of the inning, all on called third strikes.

“It’s still early,” Wolf said. “But with the hitting they have, to beat them by 17 runs (actually 19) or whatever it was, that gives us a lot of confidence.”