Wolf Follows No-Hitter With Perfect Game : High school baseball: El Camino Real left-hander stymies Banning, 5-0.

Perfect encore.

And timely too.

Fresh off the fanfare and glow of pitching El Camino Real High’s first no-hitter in more than 14 years, junior left-hander Randy Wolf threw a perfect game in the Conquistadores’ 5-0 win over Banning on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the City Section 4-A Division baseball playoffs at El Camino Real.

“I expected this,” joked an understandably giddy Wolf, who no-hit Taft on May 18 in his previous start. “Of course I knew this would happen. Yeah, right .

“The guys told me to go out and throw another (no-hitter), and I said, ‘Yeah, no problem.’ Then this happens. Wow.”

Wolf’s perfect game is believed to be the first in City Section playoff history, according to Braven (Bud) Dyer, an adviser on sports awards at the Amateur Athletic Foundation and a longtime area high school sports observer.

Former Cleveland High standout and current major league star Bret Saberhagen threw a no-hitter in a 13-0 win over Palisades in the 1982 City 4-A championship game at Dodger Stadium. One Palisades player reached base on an error.

El Camino Real improved to 22-2. The Conquistadores will play Monroe (20-4) in the semifinals Tuesday at a site to be determined. Monroe dealt El Camino Real one of its losses, 7-2, March 9 in a San Fernando tournament game.

But the Vikings did not have to face Wolf. The gifted 5-foot-11, 171-pound Wolf struck out nine and allowed only three balls out of the infield in improving to 10-1. Wolf, who lowered his earned-run average to 1.19, threw 76 pitches, 59 for strikes.

Wolf threw a no-hitter--the first in Coach Mike Maio’s 14-year tenure--and struck out 14 in a 3-0 win over Taft in a West Valley League finale.

Wolf was never challenged. He kept Banning (15-9) guessing by consistently hitting the corners with a crackling fastball and wicked curve. Some Pilots were actually spotted striding before the ball left Wolf’s hand. That’s the type of day it was for Coach Syl Saavedra’s team.

“The kid (Wolf) is good . . . he was on,” Saavedra said. “He’s got a blazing fastball and then he comes back with a great curve. The kids didn’t know what to swing at.”

The Pilots came closest to reaching base in the sixth inning when No. 9 hitter Robert Villicana hit a ground ball in the hole between first and second that eluded El Camino Real first baseman Craig Carlton.

However, second baseman Jeff Astgen reached the ball on the lip of the outfield grass and threw to Wolf who arrived at first a moment ahead of Villicana. James DeOcampo’s towering fly ball to center fielder Justin Martin ended the game.

Dan Cey had a double and two runs batted in for El Camino Real.