It has been a few years since El Toro baseball was looking for a place in the playoffs.
El Toro finished last at Sea View League last season with a Ligue 1-11 record. The charges were 6-20 in total. In 2023, they were the last at Sea View League with a file of 4-8 and were 10-19 in total.
El Toro’s baseball program that produced current MLB players Nolan Arenado, Matt Chapman and Paul Skenes had a much better time in 2025.
Upon entering this week, El Toro has a total sheet of 13-9 in total and in third place in the Sea View League at five teams with a 5-4 record. The three best teams of a five-team league are places in the guaranteed qualifying series in the qualifiers for the southern CIF section which start in mid-May.
Mike Gonzales, during his 25th season as El Toro coach, Baseball said that the charges were a group led by seniors.
“It is almost everyone who contributed to one time or another,” said Gonzales. “There is really not a guy who transported us. It was a combination of guys, which was really cool to see.”
Among the senior leaders are: the second goal player Nacho Gonzales, who is the coach’s son and has 20 strokes and five doubles; The Jack McKelvy CUR arrest, which has a team record of 15 products produced; The third goal player Talen Nodalo, who has 14 products produced; The right defender Kenny Park; The central defender and head striker Blake Rajan, who strikes. 319; And the launcher Anthony Shapuis, which is 4-1 with an MPM of 1.30.
McKelvy was a quarter of the league, Gonzales was an assistant all the leagues and Chapuis played at the end of the defender in the El Toro football team.
El Toro embodies Capistrano Valley in three League -free games this week. The chargeers are concluding the regular season next week with three championship games against San Clemente, who joined this week on a par with San Juan Hills for First in the Sea View League.
Notes
Corona del Mar baseball field was appointed National Field of the Year by Sports Field Managers Association. …
The last day of the regular season is May 7. The CIF-SS baseball supports for the nine divisions will be published on May 12 at 10 a.m., the playoffs start with first-round matches in divisions 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 on May 15 and first-round matches in divisions 2, 4, 6 and 8 on May 16.…
CIF-SS baseball qualifiers have gone nine divisions with 32 teams per division. The CIF-SS baseball went to eight divisions in the playoffs last season after having seven divisions in the 2005-23 playoffs. …
IT rankings will determine which teams are going in the divisions of the CIF-SS qualifying series and the order in which these teams will be sown in these divisions. The next update to the ranking will be published on Wednesday. From the ranking published last week, the County Orange teams who are among the 32 best teams, which would include division 1, are (in the order of their ranking): Huntington Beach, Santa Margarita, Orange Lutheran, El Dorado, Villa Park, Los Alamitos, Cypress, Laguna Beach, New Harbor, Trabuco Hills, Serliso Niguel. …
Baseball championship matches have not been determined. This could mean that the baseball sites of Southern California College, such as Cal State Fullerton and Blair Field, where Long Beach State plays, could be in the running for the CIF-SS baseball finals if none of these places is used for the university baseball playoffs. …
Huntington Beach is getting closer to what would be an eighth consecutive league championship. The oilers were 11-0 in the Sunset League of seven teams for the three-game series of this week against the second place in Newport Harbor. Newport Harbor won a record of 9-3 in the championship this week. …
Not all the Baseball teams of Orange do not make its statistics public. Among those who do it, the three main leaders of the county of the county, according to information published on Maxpreps.com, are Jordan Solis de Westminster (.556, 25 strokes in 45 at Chaures-Souris), Gabe Segura de Magnolia (0.533, 16 for 30) and Matthew Rubin de Santiago (.525, 21 for 40). …
The leaders of the County RBI, based on statistics on the maxpreps, are: Kevin Reyes Mejia de Katella (25 products produced), Cooper Flemming by Aliso Niguel (23 products produced) and Hamilton Friedberg of Orange Lutheran (23 products produced). …
County withdrawal leaders are: Robby Blaine de Sonora, Sonora (83 stick withdrawals in 52 rounds), Vincent de Marco de Woodbridge (79 in 46.1 rounds) and Branson Wade de Laguna Beach (73 in 51.2 rounds). …
Tomas Cernius, senior service, entered this week with team peaks of 27 strokes and 0.409 average in the stick. He was the first team in division 1 of the southern section of Division 1 in football as defensive. Cernius (6-4, 230) signed up in Princeton.
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