{"id":8967,"date":"2026-05-23T06:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=8967"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:31:58","slug":"orange-lutheran-baseball-loses-pitching-battle-with-norco-in-d1-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=8967","title":{"rendered":"Orange Lutheran baseball loses pitching battle with Norco in D1 quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ORANGE \u2013 It was going to take an outstanding team with a great pitcher to take Orange County\u2019s No. 1-ranked baseball team out of the CIF Southern Section playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=8965\">Baseball playoffs roundup: Foothill, Laguna Beach, Irvine move on to CIF-SS semifinals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Norco was that team Friday, and Jordan Ayala was that pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>Ayala shut out Orange Lutheran 3-0 in a CIF-SS Division 1 quarterfinal playoff game at Hart Park.<\/p>\n<p>Ayala, a right-hander who started the school year as a sophomore and reclassified as a junior, allowed two hits and struck out 10 with no walks.<\/p>\n<p>Norco (27-4) will be at home to face Notre Dame (24-8) of Sherman Oaks in the semifinals Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Norco coach Gary Parcell said the win was typical for the Cougars, who won the Big VIII championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team is built on pitching and defense,\u201d he said. \u201cWe swung the bats really well early in the season and then we kind of went into a little bit of a lull. Our league has some good pitching and the Trinity League has good pitching. We played a pretty tough schedule, so we\u2019ve seen a lot of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ayala improved to 7-1 this season and lowered his ERA to 0.71. He has 81 strikeouts in 78 innings.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lancers coach RJ Farrell said he was proud of all that his team accomplished this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome days you just lose a baseball game, right?\u201d he said. \u201cThe seniors are going to be missed. Everyone on the team gave it everything they had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ayala also hit a home run to lead off the second inning. It was the game\u2019s only run until Norco scored two unearned runs in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell was impressed by Ayala, who displayed a wicked slider and changed speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=8963\">Foothill girls water polo coach Paden Mitchell resigns after seven seasons<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe was really good today,\u201d Farrell said. \u201cHe was landing the slider when he wanted to. He was out of the zone when he wanted to. We couldn\u2019t get anything going, and once we had a couple of opportunities they were able to get out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orange Lutheran starting pitcher Gary Morse, a senior right-hander who committed to Tennessee, was good, too. He allowed just one earned run, the Ayala home run, and struck out nine with two walks in 5 \u2154 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Norco got seven hits off of him, but a couple of pickoffs, a double play and three inning-ending strikeouts kept the Cougars from expanding their lead.<\/p>\n<p>Ayala pulled a pitch over the left-field fence in the top of the second for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Two Orange Lutheran errors contributed to two Norco runs in the top of the seventh inning.<\/p>\n<p>Ayala got the Lancers out 1-2-3 in the bottom of the seventh, including a game-ending strikeout.<\/p>\n<p>Orange Lutheran got its first baserunner in the third inning when sophomore shortstop Zion Avina hit a two-out line-drive single through the middle.<\/p>\n<p>Junior first baseman Jordan Kurz reached on an error with two outs in the fourth inning. Neither advanced to second base.<\/p>\n<p>The Lancers had runners on first and second in the fifth. An Ayala strikeout ended that threat. Ayala retired the side in the sixth and seventh innings.<\/p>\n<p>Orange Lutheran finished at 25-6. The Lancers were Orange County\u2019s No. 1 team to start the season and are No. 1 in this week\u2019s county rankings. They won the championships of the Boras Classic South, including a 4-1 win over Norco in the tournament final, and the National High School Invitational in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=8961\">OC Food Bank shut down because of hazmat emergency<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lancers finished second to St. John Bosco in the Trinity League.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Ayala tosses a two-hit shutout with 10 strikeouts and hits a solo homer to lead Norco into the CIF-SS semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-based-on-facts-either-observed-and-verified-directly-by-the-reporter-or-reported-and-verified-from-knowledgeable-sources","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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