What a magical run the Sierra Canyon baseball team is on.

The Trailblazers won their second consecutive one-run game by the identical score of 2-1 after knocking off Cypress on Tuesday in the Division 1 playoffs.

Sierra Canyon took down Bishop Amat last week and now advances to Friday’s elite eight game against JSerra down in San Juan Capistrano.

Omar Cisneros was 2-3 with a double and two runs scored. Oregon-bound Kehden Hettiger had a hit.

But it was the pitching and defense that stole the show.

Ethan Munoz threw out two would-be base stealers and Sierra Canyon turned three double plays in the win.

Ethan Montes was the winning pitcher going four innings and giving up only one run on five hits with two walks and two strikeouts.

Jonny Hagopian came in for 1 1/3 innings of work and Brady Hewitt got the save with 1 2/3 innings.

Hagopian performed some magic in the fifth. He squirmed out of a bases loaded, no out jam, giving up just one run and keeping Sierra Canyon in the lead.

The Trailblazers are in the quarterfinals in Division 1 for the first time in school history.

The Sierra Canyon track and field program is fast.

That’s an understatement.

It’s really fast.

The Trailblazers took home four Mission League championships and nearly a fifth.

Sierra Canyon competes this weekend in the section finals at Moorpark High.

The star has been freshman sensation Jalen Aguilar-Carnes. JAC ran a 10.83 in the 100 and 21,77 in the 200 to bring home league championships. He’s only 15 years old.

The 4×100 relay team ran a 42.44 for the league championship. Xavier White, JAC, sophomore Matthew Curry and sophomore Jae’On Young formed the super fast quartet.

The team ran 42.11 at the section prelims and coach Troy Samuels thinks the foursome can go 41 high this week.

The relay team’s stiffest competition will come from Oaks Christian on Saturday.

The other league champion is sophomore Laila Bowens. Bowens ran a :58.86 to capture the 400 title.

Bowens recently went :58.12 at the section prelims.

Curry just missed out a league championship with a second place finish in the 400. Curry ran :49.80

Two football players also did well this year.

Eugene Brooks was second in the shot put with a throw of 50 feet, three inches. Cameron Brandt was second in the discus with a throw of 147-10, setting a new school record in the process.

The Sierra Canyon baseball team made history Friday.

Competing in the Division 1 playoffs for the first time ever after playing 21 Mission League games for the first time ever, the Trailblazers went on the road and got a 2-1 victory against Bishop Amat.

Caden Sramek, a promising sophomore right-hander, went the distance yielding five hits and a walk with nine strikeouts.

“Caden has a chance,” Sierra Canyon asst. coach P.C. Shaw said. “Caden is a dude and getting better.”

Ethan Munoz went 2-3 with a double and RBI.

Oregon-bound Kheden Hettiger was 2-3 with two runs scored.

Mikhal Johnson (freshman), Andrew Nelson and Brady Hewitt each had a hit for Sierra Canyon, the fourth-place finisher in the league.

Sierra Canyon joined top-seeded Notre Dame, Harvard-Westlake and Crespi to give the league four winners in the opening round of the playoffs.

The Trailblazers will host Cypress at 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday

The Sierra Canyon softball team had a disappointing end to the regular season losing twice and falling to a tie for second place in the Mission League.

Those bad feelings are all gone after a great week with two Div. 3 playoff wins.

The Trailblazers had a tough task Tuesday against No. 3-seed Santa Margarita but went on the road and knocked off the Eagles, 4-3 in 14 innings.

Duke-bound junior Hailey Shuler went 13 innings with 13 strikeouts, facing 50 batters.

Maddie Debs closed the game for the save.

Shuler was 3-6 with two doubles. Central Florida-bound Izzy Mertes was 3-4 with a double and RBI. Ava Debs homered. Nina Peyton-Johnson homered..Natalia Areliz, a promising freshman, had an RBI.

Sierra Canyon faced Sunny Hills on Friday in a rematch of last year’s first-round setback.

The Trailblazers got the revenge it wanted with a 6-1 victory.

Shuler gave up three hits and had nine strikeouts while facing 24 batters. She had two hits, including a double.

Maddie Debs had quite a day with a two-run home run and a two-run double.

Debs two-run blast in the second inning gave Sierra Canyon a 2-0 lead it would never relinquish. Debs two-run double in the fourth extended the lead to 4-0.

Areliz added an RBI double in the fifth and Lianna Lara added a solo home run in the sixth.

Sierra Canyon plays Tuesday at home in the round of 16

The Sierra Canyon boys swim program is your Southern Section Division 4 champion.

 

With victories in the 200 medley and Luke Haas’ top finish in the 200 individual medley, the Trailblazers outlasted Liberty and Hemet to win the title.

 

It’s the first ever swim championship in school history and comes on the heels of girls volleyball, football and girls basketball taking home crowns this school year.

 

Anthony Kim, Chris Cain, Cayden Cain and Haas were the four legs of the medley and Haas finished fourth in the 100 fly to add more valuable points.

 

A big showing happened in the 200 free relay, again with the same quartet. The second place finish added key points.

 

“We weren’t supposed to do that well,” Sierra Canyon coach Courtland Day said. “We were seeded fourth and swam better than expected.”

 

Other key points came from Kim in the 100 backstroke and 200 freestyle. Zhang scored in the 100 breaststroke.

The Sierra Canyon boys swim program is on the rise.

The Trailblazers competed in the tough Mission League and have five individuals now moving onto the Div. 4 playoffs this week.

Jason Jang will compete in the 100 butterfly and 50 freestyle.

Caden Cain will compete in the 500 freestyle.

Chris Cain will compete in the 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle.

Luke Haas will compete in the 100 fly and 200 intermediate medley.

Anthony Kim will compete in the 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke.

Sierra Canyon head coach Courtland Day has been impressed with Caden Cain.

“Caden has shaved nearly a minute off his time from when he began,” Day said. “We put him in that event and he has continually gotten better. I think he can get under six minutes.”

The top two finishers this week advance to the state tournament in Fresno.

Good luck to our swimmers.

You win some. You lose some.

The Sierra Canyon softball team won some big games early. The Trailblazers were on the brink of winning the Mission League softball championship outright in their first year in the ultra-competitive league.

However, two late season setbacks gave the title to Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks. Sierra Canyon tied for second with Louisville of Woodland Hills and lost a coin flip for playoff purposes. The Trailblazers will be the designated third team from the league when brackets are drawn up this weekend.

A crazy 11-9 loss against Louisville came on Wednesday after a solid 2-1 nonleague victory against Rio Mesa the day before.

Lianna Lara homered and Hailey Shuler’s three-run bomb gave Sierra Canyon what it thought was a comfortable 5-0 lead after two innings against Louisville.

Louisville would battle back and score six runs in the fourth.

Sierra Canyon found itself ahead 9-8 in the sixth inning and was only three outs away from at least a share of the league championship. Lara hit her second home run of the game and Central Florida-bound infielder Izzy Mertes and freshman Natalia Areliz each had RBI singles.

However, Bella Wellbaum and Lily Rodriguez singled ahead of a Sophia Stein three-run home run and the Royals took the lead in the seventh and held Sierra Canyon for a dramatic, wild and crazy 11-9 slugfest win.

Shuler finished with 10 strikeouts for Sierra Canyon.

San Diego State-bound CeCe Cellura went 6 1/3 innings for the Royals before Lola Jefferies came on in relief for the final two outs.

Sierra Canyon didn’t have much left in the tank and lost to Chaminade 6-1 the very next day to close out the regular season.

Notre Dame is the league champion and Sierra Canyon and Louisville finished tied for second place with three losses each.

Shuler struck out eight of the 16 batters she faced Tuesday in the nine-inning game.

Ava Debs had an RBI double and Lara’s solo home run won it.

The Sierra Canyon girls beach volleyball team had another successful run through the Spring.

The team, coached by indoor girls asst. Darren Phillips, finished in third place in the Mission League.

The Trailblazers beat Harvard-Westlake, Notre Dame/Sherman Oaks and Immaculate Heart.

It lost to Notre Dame Academy and Chaminsde.

Olivia Babcock (headed to Pitt for indoor) and sophomore Lauren Lynch were first-team all-league selections.

Olivia Babcock and twin sister Natalie Babock, along with Lynch and Zoe McNicoll made the league pairs tournament.

The Babcock duo lost in the league tournament semifinals.

“We had a good run and had a couple pairs in the league tournament,” Phillips said. “We can build for the future. We have some good players coming back.”

The Sierra Canyon boys tennis team had one of its most successful seasons in school history.

The team played in the very competitive Mission League and placed fifth.

Not only did the team do better than expected, it was also the first time individuals made it to the quarterfinals in both singles and doubles.

Austin Luca advanced to the final eight in singles and the doubles team of Neal Bhasin and Muchael Xu were doubles quartefinalists.

“It was a good season,” head coach Carlo xxxx said. “But we are striving to make the team better every year. So, I’m excited to see what we can achieve the following years.

Baseball advances out of Mission League and into playoffs

The Sierra Canyon baseball team had some uncertainty surrounding the program at the start of the season.

The Trailblazers graduated flamethrowers Jaden Noot (LSU) and Kassius Thomas (Duke). And the team would be competing in the rugged Mission League for the first time.

Mission accomplished.

Tom Meusborn developed young arms like Brayden Charness and Caden Sramek.

The team finished in fourth place and gained an automatic bid to the Div. 1 playoffs next week.

It came down to the final week but Sierra Canyon knocked off Alemany twice in a 3-game set while St. Francis lost all three games it played against league champion Notre Dame.

Following a 3-2 setback in eight innings Monday to give St. Francis hope, the Trailblazers took care of business with 7-0 and 3-2 victories on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively.

Sramek went five innings on Tuesday giving up just four hits with six strikeouts.

Jonny Hagopian was solid in relief, throwing two innings and striking out three.

Oregon-bound Kehden Hettiger homered, doubled and had three RBI’s. Ethan Montes had three hits, including a double and three RBI’s.

Andrew Nelson had two hits while Omar Cisneros, Grant Werdesheim and Brady Hewitt all had one hit apiece.

Hettiger had a two-run home run Thursday and Montes went five innings for the win.

Jess Tarnol picked up the save.

Munoz had two hits, including a home run in Monday’s loss. Werdesheim tripled and had an RBI. Cisneros had three hits.

Sierra Canyon, as a fourth-place finisher in league, could face a top-4 ranked opponent on the road when pairings are released this weeknd.

 

A trip to Orange County to face Huntington Beach or JSerra is not out of the question