{"id":6507,"date":"2026-05-01T20:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6507"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:20:28","slug":"freshman-shines-in-clear-lake-15-0-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6507","title":{"rendered":"Freshman shines in Clear Lake 15-0 win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Tino Cruz pitches one-hitter against Upper Lake, strikes out nine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LAKEPORT &gt;&gt; Two games to go for the Clear Lake Cardinals as the North Central League I race winds down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake enters a decisive final week with two games against Fort Bragg, the only team that beat the Cardinals twice in league play a year ago as the Cardinals finished second in the 2025 final standings. They are gunning for their first league title since going 14-0 in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cardinals (11-1 league, 15-6-1 overall) tuned up for Fort Bragg by beating Upper Lake 15-0 in five innings on Thursday in Lakeport, and they did with underclassmen playing a huge role. Freshman Tino Cruz pitched a one-hitter, allowing only a single to Cameron Milhaupt, while blanking Upper Lake (1-11, 2-14-1). He struck out nine and walked two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s solid,\u201d Clear Lake head coach Brian Horne said of Cruz, who figures to play a much bigger role for the Cardinals in the near future as senior aces AJ Bruch and Sawyer Smith graduate this year. \u201cHe stayed in the zone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mano Garcia, another freshman, caught the entire game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zane McAuley (2-for-3, double) drove in five of the Cardinals\u2019 runs while Jesse Hayes went 2-for-2 with a double and stole three more bases for the Cardinals. Hayes is among the North Coast Section\u2019s most prolific basestealers this year. Johnny Gonzales III (2-for-2) and AJ Bruch (2-for-2, two RBIs) added two hits apiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carlos Narvaes took the loss for Upper Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both teams wrap up their league schedules next week. Clear Lake hosts Fort Bragg on Tuesday while Upper Lake hosts Cloverdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tino Cruz pitches one-hitter against Upper Lake, strikes out nine Lake County Sports on Facebook LAKEPORT &gt;&gt; Two games to go for the Clear Lake Cardinals as the North Central League I race winds down. Clear Lake enters a decisive final week with two games against Fort Bragg, the only team that beat the Cardinals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,16,84,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6508,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}