By Marty Mayfield
KRTN Multi-Media
Raton baseball hosted the West Las Vegas Dons for their home opener Monday afternoon with a tough game and another mark in the loss column as West scored first and added to that in three more innings.
West sparked it with a four run third inning where it started on an error from a fly ball to right field that started loading the bases. By the time pitcher Jonathan Cabrieles could get a handle on it four runners managed to cross the plate. Raton returned and scored one but that is all they could do leaving two on base.
Coach Mike Marez noted that the team is young with only one senior in Brandon Luksich at the catcher position. The boys did show their youth Monday afternoon with a few inexperience mistakes and hesitations. Marez noted that his team is also using a couple of eighth graders mostly in the courtesy running department for the catcher and pitchers.
The team has a long ways to go and Marez hopes that by district the inexperience will be over shadowed with experience from the number of games coming up.
The team travels again this weekend back to the St Mikes Invitational which begins on Thursday.
Game Stats – 3/14/16 West Las Vegas Varsity at Raton Varsity
Box Score
WEST LAS VEGAS VARSITY (8) AT RATON VARSITY (2) WEST LAS VEGAS VARSI AB R H BI RATON VARSITY AB R H BI Santiago Mondragon 3 1 2 0 Johnathan Cabriales 4 0 1 0 Robbie Alarcon 4 1 3 1 Damien Martinez 4 1 2 0 Jeremy Fernandez 3 2 1 0 Brandon Luksich 2 0 0 0 Jeffrey Sanchez 3 2 1 2 Dillon Lemons 2 0 0 0 James Archuleta 4 1 2 1 Richie Gonzales 4 0 1 0 Jacob Zamora 4 0 1 0 Cole Medina 3 0 0 0 Victor Martinez 3 0 1 2 Brandon Decker 1 0 0 0 Pablo Garcia 3 0 0 0 Austin Jones 0 0 0 0 Brian Gonzales 1 0 0 0 Robert Horner 1 0 0 0 Dominic Graston 4 1 1 0 Mateous Samora 1 1 0 0 Trevor Portillos 3 0 0 0 TOTALS 32 8 12 6 TOTALS 25 2 4 0 WEST LAS VEGAS VARSITY 004 021 1 -- 8 RATON VARSITY 001 000 1 -- 2 LOB--WEST LAS VEGAS VARSITY 7, RATON VARSITY 10. ERR--Victor Martinez, Dominic Graston, Santiago Mondragon (2), Jacob Zamora, Trevor Portillos (2). 2B--Jeffrey Sanchez, Santiago Mondragon, Damien Martinez. 3B--Robbie Alarcon. HBP--Dillon Lemons, Brandon Luksich. SB--Victor Martinez, Jeremy Fernandez (2), Robbie Alarcon (3), Jacob Zamora, Damien Martinez. WEST LAS VEGAS VARSITY IP H R ER BB SO HR Brian Gonzales (W) 5.33 2 1 1 6 10 0 James Archuleta 1.67 2 1 0 0 0 0 RATON VARSITY Johnathan Cabriales (L) 3.00 6 4 4 1 2 0 Cole Medina 2.67 5 3 3 1 3 0 Dillon Lemons 1.00 1 1 1 1 0 0 PB--Jeffrey Sanchez. SO--Pablo Garcia (3), Jeffrey Sanchez (2), Johnathan Cabriales, Dillon Lemons, Robert Horner, Brandon Luksich, Cole Medina, Richie Gonzales (2), Trevor Portillos, Damien Martinez, Brandon Decker. BB--Victor Martinez, Jeffrey Sanchez, Santiago Mondragon, Dillon Lemons, Robert Horner, Brandon Luksich, Austin Jones, Cole Medina, Brandon Decker.
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Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | L |
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West Las Vegas Varsity | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 5 | |
Raton Varsity | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
WP: Brian Gonzales , LP: Johnathan Cabriales, SP: –