Kevin Corey tossed a complete game and Travis Bonner hit a two-run home run as the Los Gatos varsity baseball team edged Santa Clara Valley Athletic League rival Wilcox High 4-1 on Friday afternoon.
Corey, a senior and team captain in his third year on the varsity squad, allowed five hits and struck out five Wilcox hitters to move Los Gatos overall record to 13-2.
“It’s huge to be able to hand the ball to somebody and have them throw a complete game,” said Los Gatos Head Coach Brad Sanfilippo. “You couldn’t ask more from a senior captain that the performance he gave us today.”
Corey and the Wildcats fell behind 1-0 in the second inning after a sacrifice fly produced what would be the lone run in the game for the Chargers.
From there, Wilcox was able to move a runner to third base on only one other occasion. The Los Gatos defense also committed no errors in the game.
“You’re going to have to face some hard times and stuff out there,” Corey said, “and I just try to bear down for my team.”
While the Wildcats’ pitching and defense highlighted the victory, the offense was somewhat dormant, aside from Bonner’s fifth-inning home run, Sanfilippo said.
“Obviously, Travis’s home run gave us some room to breathe, but it was just a little something here, a little something there,” he said. “It was not a hit fest by any means.”
Spectators in support of Los Gatos shouted in frustration over two on-field calls that went against the Wildcats in the seventh inning. In the top of the inning, Tyler Olivet was picked off first base, though he contested he was never tagged. In the bottom half of the seventh, first baseman Corey Champman appeared to have tagged a ducking Wilcox base runner after an errant throw on a ground ball. The runner was called safe, however, prompting Sanfilippo to discuss the play with both members of the two-man umpiring crew.
Two Wilcox batters reached base in the inning, but neither scored.
“I don’t think that changed anything,” Sanfilippo said of the calls after the game. “We may have changed what we would have done with our pitcher if they got another base runner. That’s part of the game. You don’t want it in that situation, obviously, where you feel like you got something but then you didn’t get it.”
Corey said he believed the umpires did a “great job.”
“There were some calls that could go either way,” he said. “I really can’t complain after a victory.”
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