High school sports / Anderson Haigler

Senior moments denied by virus

This wasn’t how Christian Becerra imagined his high school baseball career coming to a close. The hard-throwing right-hander and his Madison teammates were supposed to be competing for a championship ring late into spring. “I thought our team was good enough this year to potentially have won it all,” Becerra said. Instead, what most likely will be the 6-foot-2 senior’s final game — a 4-1 win over Granite Hills on March 11 — has come and gone without fanfare. Warhawks coach Robert Lovato warn

Ray Cebulski, Marcelo Mayer lead Eastlake to CIF San Diego Section Open Division baseball title

POWAY, Calif. — Championship aspirations at Eastlake began as early as middle school for Ray Cebulski and Marcelo Mayer. “Me and Marcelo became friends, and we knew we wanted to win a championship every time we played,” Cebulski said. On a warm summer night at Poway High School, both players were key. And when the dust settled, both were 2021 CIF San Diego Section Open Division Baseball champions, taking down Grossmont by a score of 8-3 to make good on a sense of ambition that had spanned seve

SBLive California • June 20, 2021

Hudson Beamon's walk-off hit lifts Granite Hills to 3-2 win over Point Loma in CIF San Diego Section D-I baseball championship

POWAY, CALIF. — Hudson Beamon lifted the first pitch he saw in the bottom of the seventh inning to shallow left field. Alex Gibaud retreated to third base and waited. Then the ball landed just beyond the infield dirt, Gibaud dashed home, and the celebration began for Granite Hills as it won the 2021 CIF San Diego Section Division I baseball championship, taking down Point Loma by a 3-2 margin at Poway High School. “Our heads are in the game. You can never count us out until it’s over,” Beamon s