2007-2008 Season
7.8.08
Cerro Coso pitcher Steve Johnson signs letter of intent with
Southern Utah
Cerro Coso College announced Tuesday that sophomore baseball pitcher
Steve Johnson has signed a NCAA National Letter of Intent to attend
Southern Utah University next fall.
Johnson has just completed is final year at Cerro Coso where he compiled
a 6-6 record with and a 5.45 ERA. He had transferred to the Coyotes from
Otero Community College in La Junta, Colo., is sophomore year.
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6.14.08
Fred Bello signs with Seattle Mariners
Cerro Coso short stop Fred Bello drafted by the Seattle Mariners
officially signed on Saturday and was assigned to one of their Rookie
Development League ball clubs in Virginia.
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6.10.08
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Fredrick Bello charges around second during a media day at Cerro Coso in
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Mariners draft Cerro Coso’s Fred Bello
Cerro Coso’s
Fredrick Bello could be moving on to the professional ranks.
Bello, a short stop for the Coyotes, was chosen by the
Seattle Mariners in the 20th round
of Major League Baseball’s
First Year Player Draft, he was 612 overall.
During his tenure with Cerro Coso, Bello was moved from the outfield to
short stop, as much to plug a hole left by Mark Sayas as it was to get
Bello greater exposure.
In the 2008 season, Bello it .404, which was second on the team
behind Foothill Conference MVP Mark Moriarty.
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5.15.08
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"You're here for baseball, that's it. Just have a
good year, anything else will come into play.” |
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Midwestern boy finds his place in Southern California
Mark Moriarty's trip to California started with an e-mail and a
chance encounter.
Thanks to a series of events that played out perfectly for Moriarty, he
ended up playing baseball for Cerro Coso and ended up winning the
Foothill Conference MVP award.
“I really wanted to play baseball and never got the shot,” Moriarty
said. “So over spring break I was with my dad and went over and said
let's see what happens.”
Moriarty was nursing a hamstring injury and was forced to sit out his
sophomore year playing for Elgin Community College in Elgin, Ill., a
year after the team advanced to the Junior College World Series.
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5.6.08
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“Some things are just meant to be. Who knows why
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Moriarty named Foothill Conference MVP
Mark Moriarty, right fielder from Cerro Coso, was named the Foothill
Conference Most Valuable Player this week, leading a list of seven
Coyotes named to the all conference team.
Moriarty led the conference in Batting (.546), hits (53), RBI (35). He
had seven doubles, two triples, two home runs and stole 12 bases out of
17 attempts.
Last spring, Moriarty, who hails from Chicago, e-mailed Coach Dick Adams
with interest in Cerro Coso.
As fate would have it, Coach Adams and his daughter Meghann, had a
vacation planned that took them through Chicago. He called Moriarty and
set up a visit.
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5.3.08
Wes Oliver Signs with CSU Pueblo
Cerro Coso College announced this week that sophomore baseball
pitcher Wes Oliver has signed a NCAA National Letter of Intent to attend
Colorado State University-Pueblo next fall.
Oliver has just completed is final year at Cerro Coso where he compiled
a 2-1 record with 5 saves, and a 1.66 ERA. He fanned 24 batters in 21.2
innings’ of work.
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5.2.08
Cerro Coso stats from Thursdays doubleheader loss
Cerro Coso had 24 hits during its combined 14 run game, despite losing
both games.
Mark Moriarty led the day offensively for the Coyotes going a combined
5-9 between the two games. Game one was his best of the day, going 4-5
with two RBIs on the day.
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5.1.08
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"The first game was ours to keep, it kind of
reminded me of the Rio Hondo series," |
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Cerro Coso ends 2008 season with doubleheader losses
With a chance to end the year above .500, the Cerro Coso baseball team
dropped a pair against San Bernardino to finish 21-23 for the year.
The Coyotes took a 9-7 lead into the bottom of the ninth before closer
Wes Oliver blew the save, giving up three runs to lose 10-9.
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4.29.08
Coyotes come out on top in slug fest against San Bernardino Valley
Sometimes playing for pride is all you need.
Cerro Coso, already out of the playoff picture, survived a slobber
knocker against San Bernardino Valley, coming through with a clutch base
hit in the bottom of the eighth to win 12-11.
The Coyotes are now 21-21 trying to finish with a winning record,
needing to sweep to finish two games above .500. A split in San
Bernardino on Thursday will but them at 22-22.
Antony Dee came through with the game winning RBI as three runners came
across the plate to put Cerro Coso up by the final margin.
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4.28.08
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“We're 18-20 and we have six games left." |
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Coyotes knocked out of playoff hunt thanks to weekend sweep
The giant killers weren't able to repeat.
After shaking up the playoff picture just a week before, the Cerro Coso
baseball team is out of the post season thanks to a three game sweep at
the hands of Rio Hondo, capped off by a pair of losses Saturday, 7-6 and
6-4.
Now sitting in fifth place, the Coyotes are eliminated from the playoff
picture and will shift their focus.
“I'm always a goals guy,” said coach Dick Adams. “We're 18-20 and we
have six games left. I told the guys are new goal make sure above .500
when season's over. But we have so many freshmen, we've just got to keep
building.”
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4.26.08
Wright pitches a gem, then Cerro Coso falls flat
Eugene Wright was a one man wrecking crew against Victor Valley on
Saturday, throwing a one-hit gem in game one of the doubleheader.
Wright let his defense go to work in the game, throwing just five strike
outs over the nine innings and went on to take a 4-0 victory.
The Coyotes made a couple of errors in the game, but got the job done
when they needed to to keep the Rams from crossing the plate.
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4.24.08
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“He just dominated them,” |
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Travers, Cerro Coso maul the Rams, 13-0
Defense and Darren Travers were all Cerro Coso needed against Victor
Valley on Thursday, coming away with a 13-0 win.
Travers threw a complete game, scattering nine hits, walking none and
striking out eight. And the couple of times he did get into jams,
including a bases loaded with one out in the sixth, he induced a double
play to get out of the inning.
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4.9.08
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“I told these guys, you just set a new bar for
yourselves" |
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Panther poachers: Coyotes sweep doubleheader against Foothill
leading Chaffey
A dominant performance from Cerro Coso pitchers couldn't have come at
a better time.
The Coyote throwers scattered 10 hits and six runs across two games on
Saturday to sweep the doubleheader, winning 5-3 and 8-3.
Cerro Coso now is one game back of the second and final playoff spot
from the Foothill Conference, trailing San Bernardino Valley and Desert
who both split a pair of games over the weekend.
The Coyotes jumped into fourth place ahead of Rio Hondo who was on a
conference bye week.
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4.9.08
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“We're on a seven-game winning streak. We're
playing well, but we have to step it up,” |
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Romero hits for the cycle as Coyotes sweep Barstow
Franklin Romero, Jr., had the day of the 2008 season and it started
with utter perfection.
During Cerro Coso's doubleheader sweep against Barstow on Saturday,
Romero hit for the cycle going 5-5 with five RBIs and four runs scored.
Romero was slightly off in the second game, going 1-4 with a double and
three runs scored. He still managed to reach base to steal three bases.
It was one of the best offensive days in recent Coyote history by a
single player, though records weren't immediately available to find out
how many others had hit for the cycle.
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3.31.08
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"We have no breathing room. We need to win, win." |
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Cerro Coso in ‘must sweep' mode against Barstow
Despite giving up six runs in the final two innings against Barstow,
Cerro Coso cruised to a 15-10 victory on Thursday.
The Coyotes had 15 hits and jumped out a 14-4 lead through seven
innings, prompting Dick Adams to pull starter Steve Johnson who improved
to 6-4.
Adams, however, was a little nervous with the end of the game, heading
into Barstow today.
“Heading into Saturday, we didn't want them felling to good about
themselves, but they hit a couple of bombs against us,” Adams said.
“We're in sweep mode. We need momentum as we make a run at the second
playoff sport. We have no breathing room. We need to win, win. It's a
must sweep situation.”
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3.12.08
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“They always swing it and play well. It will be a
good challenge for us.” |
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Coyotes split twin bill with AVC, goes 2-3 in series
During both games in Saturday's doubleheader against Antelope Valley
College, Cerro Coso found itself with a chance to come from behind late.
The Coyotes failed to get the job done in the first game, but exploded
for four runs in the second to split the twin bill and win two out of
three from the Marauders.
“We had a nice explosion there in the second game and came back and got
two out of three, which is a good thing,” said Coach Dick Adams. “To get
three would have been better, but two out of three is still pretty
good.”
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2.26.08
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"We know we have to be first or second to get in
the playoffs anyway, so we need to get better from today.” |
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Defensive blunders, lack of timely hitting plague Coyotes in 11-6
loss to Santa Barbara
If you take away the second and eighth innings, Cerro Coso had a good
day. But as it stands, those two innings accounted for eight of Santa
Barbara's 11 runs on the day, leading to an 11-6 loss in the Coyotes'
final preseason contest.
Both innings, one error accounted for two runs and both led to big
innings for the Vaqueros.
In the second inning, a soft grounder to pitcher Darren Travers led to
two runs when he over threw catcher Jake Orr, scoring two runs.
The missed opportunity allowed the inning to stay alive for Santa
Barbara who scored a run on a single and bad throw from third base to
first.
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2.25.08
CCCC loses pair to Rustlers
A trio of bad innings cost Cerro Coso against Golden West over the
weekend, as the Coyotes dropped a doubleheader on the road.
Cerro Coso dropped the first game - a make up after a rain out on Friday
- 11-4 giving up six runs in two innings. The Coyotes gave up three runs
in the first inning of the second game en route to a 4-2 loss.
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2.16.08
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“In the first five innings, we did not have one
thing go our way, not one thing go our way,” |
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Coyotes shelled in seventh, lose 15-4 to El Camino
A scrappy duel turned into a rout as El Camino tagged Cerro Coso for
six runs in the seventh inning to go on to win 15-4 on Friday night.
The loss is the first suffered by the Coyotes at home this season.
Going into the top half of the seventh, the game was tied 4-4 before the
Warriors sent 11 men to the plate, including three back-to-back RBI
hits.
Eugene Wright took the loss, going six and a third innings, giving up
seven runs (five earned) on eight hits, five walks and one strike out.
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2.12.08
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“It was a gamble at the right time." |
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Pitching, defense, and a little heads-up play, hand Coyotes 9-5
decision over L.A. City College
A heads up play by Jake Orr in the fourth atoned for a base running
error, leading to a three-run inning against L.A. City College.
After failing to tag up on a fly ball to center from Fred Bello, Orr
took advantage of the L.A. City catcher failing to cover home on a
pop-up from Joe Keiser and sprinted in for the score. That sparked three
runs in the inning, aided by a fielding error, and helped propel the
Coyotes to a 9-5 win on Saturday.
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2.1.08
Southwestern too much for Cerro Coso in 17-1 defeat
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“It just went on from there...” |
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The Cerro Coso Coyotes baseball team took its act on the road
Thursday afternoon to Southwestern College, and the home team didn't
show the locals must hospitality.
Cerro Coso lost the game 17-1, falling to 2-1 on the young season.
Defense was the sore spot for the Coyotes in the ballgame, as the Dawgs
committed seven errors while allowing only nine hits to Southwestern.
Colby Ingram started the game on the mound for Cerro Coso, and went 5
1/3 innings, until the game started to unravel in the sixth.
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1.23.08
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"We think our pitching should keep us in the
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The Coyotes' sweet 16th
Cerro Coso's baseball season is right around
the corner entering it's 16th year
Last year was a season that head coach Dick Adams wishes could have
gone better. After losing 25 games — the most in Cerro Coso history —
the Coyotes are looking to put last year behind them and enter into a
new chapter in their history.
The Coyotes will get that chance a week from today, opening up at
Ventura on Jan. 25. Cerro Coso will make its home debut on Feb. 9
hosting L.A. City.
There are quite a few new faces on the Cerro Coso squad — 22 out of 28
players plus two new assistant coaches — but as Adams puts it, there is
no shortage of talent.
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10.2.07
Coyote Baseball Clothing Fundraiser
Now you too can sport the blue! Support Coyote Baseball by sporting some
of our athletic wear. Caps, T's, and sweats are available to show your
support for our program. Children's sizes available in some items.
Support Coyote Baseball today! See
order form for full details.
9.26.07
15th Annual Christmas Tree Sale Fundraiser
Each year the Cerro Coso Baseball team sells fresh-cut, top-quality
Christmas trees as an annual fundraiser. If you are interested in
supporting Coyote Baseball feel free to
download the
order form and return the completed form to Coach Adams by
November 2nd. There are several types of trees to choose from and
wreathes and garlands are also available. Pick-up date is Saturday,
December 1st. See order form for full details.
This is a fundraising program, which is tax deductible, and best of all,
supports your schools student athletes. You will receive a full refund
if you are not completely satisfied. Profits from the first 14
years played a significant financial role towards the building of our
press box, snack bar, batting cages, and purchase of the scoreboard.
With our current budget, we must use these profits for supplies (bats,
balls, helmets, catchers gear, etc.). We appreciate your support.
8.24.07
Assistant Coach Jason Ruiz
Cerro Coso College is pleased to announce the hiring of Jason Ruiz as
the new Assistant Baseball Coach. Jason joins the Coyote coaching staff
after spending the last three years as an assistant for Southern Utah
University. He will coach the infielders/outfielders and share the
hitters. Additionally, Jason who hales form Las Vegas will be an
integral part of the Coyote recruiting.
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