Wilson Chisels Out Personal Mark : Baseball: Thousand Oaks High junior sets school record for hits in 7-1 victory over Westlake.

Jack Wilson has his own commandment now: Love thy neighbor, but break his record.

Wilson, Thousand Oaks High’s junior second baseman, had a pair of hits in the Lancers’ 7-1 Marmonte League victory over Westlake on Wednesday, giving him the school record for hits in a season with 40 and pushing him past his idol and former major leaguer, Kurt Stillwell.

The victory, which moved Thousand Oaks (17-8, 9-4 in league play) into a tie for the league lead with Simi Valley and Royal, gave the Lancers a reason to celebrate. But none more than Wilson, who handled six fielding chances without an error and ripped line-drive hits to center field in the first and sixth innings.

The second of Wilson’s hits, a two-run double, gave him the record, surpassing Stillwell’s mark of 39, set in 1983.

“(Stillwell’s) rookie year with the Reds, I was his biggest fan,” said Wilson, recalling 1986. “After that, I wanted to wear the same number, play the same position, the whole deal.”

Things have changed a bit for Wilson since then. His family, which once lived a block away from the Stillwells in Thousand Oaks, has moved. Wilson started this season at Stillwell’s position of shortstop, but was moved to second base when Mike Lauer returned from basketball season. And the Lancers don’t have a uniform with Stillwell’s No. 1, so Wilson wears No. 9 instead.

None of that bothers Wilson, not as long as Thousand Oaks keeps winning. The Lancers won their sixth consecutive league game Wednesday, when they used flawless fielding, timely hits and durable pitching to extend the streak.

Tied at 1-1 entering the fifth, the Lancers edged ahead, 3-1, on Lauer’s two-out double into the left-field corner that drove in Ronnie Hanks and Ryan Holmes.

Thousand Oaks broke the game open in the sixth when Wilson’s double drove in Eric Soliz and Steve Yeager, and a two-out single by Ryan Holmes brought in Hanks and Wilson.

Any hopes Westlake (18-6, 8-5) had of mounting a rally were snuffed by Lancer right-hander Santos Mummey (7-2), who went the distance, scattering seven hits.

“He gets behind hitters but he doesn’t walk them,” Thousand Oaks Coach Jim Hansen said of Mummey, who walked one and struck out one. “He’s hit the locations he needs to all year long. It’s not dramatic but it’s effective.”

As are the Lancers themselves. The team returned six players from last year’s 12-12 team but many of this season’s contributions have come from first-year varsity players such as Wilson, Mummey, Holmes and Brent Hirsh.

“We had some leadership problems before the juniors essentially took over the team,” Hansen said. “It was a young team that was making errors and didn’t know who was going to carry the pitching load. Now they’re starting to find a personality.”

Westlake starter Jay Kenny (5-1) allowed three earned runs, and four hits and walked four in five innings. Erik Devine started the sixth and retired two batters but gave up four hits and four earned runs before being replaced by Tim Carr.