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Palo Verde Valley Needles

Yellow Jackets

Mustangs

The Needles (CA) varsity baseball team lost Saturday's home tournament game against Palo Verde Valley (Blythe, CA) by a score of 10-6.

Game Details: RT 66 Tournament

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Palo Verde Valley	1	0	3	2	4	-	-	10	13	4
Needles	6	0	0	0	0	-	-	6	4	3

Final score provided by J. Phipps.

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Game Stats

Palo Verde Valley (21-22)

Palo Verde Valley

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI
	Team Totals	.481	31	27	10	13	8
1	Nick Mojica (Jr)	.000	4	4	1	0	0
8	Cyrus Flores (So)	.250	4	4	0	1	2
9	Jaydon Castillo (Fr)	1.000	3	3	2	3	2
10	M. Robertson (Jr)	.500	3	2	1	1	0
20	C. Aguilar (Fr)	.000	3	2	1	0	1
23	Angel Cervantez (Sr)	.500	3	2	1	1	1
25	X. Bejarano (Jr)	1.000	4	3	2	3	0
29	David Luna (Sr)	.333	3	3	1	1	0
29	Xavier Pinion (Jr)	.750	4	4	1	3	2

Palo Verde Valley

#	Athlete Name	BB	K	HBP	ROE	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	3	3	1	1	6	.548	.481	1.029
1	Nick Mojica (Jr)	0	2	0	1	6	.000	.000	.000
8	Cyrus Flores (So)	0	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.500
9	Jaydon Castillo (Fr)	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000
10	M. Robertson (Jr)	1	0	0	0	0	.667	.500	1.167
20	C. Aguilar (Fr)	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.000	.333
23	Angel Cervantez (Sr)	0	0	1	0	2	.667	.500	1.167
25	X. Bejarano (Jr)	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000
29	David Luna (Sr)	0	1	0	0	2	.333	.333	.666
29	Xavier Pinion (Jr)	0	0	0	0	2	.750	.750	1.500

Palo Verde Valley

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB
	Team Totals	4
9	Jaydon Castillo (Fr)	1
10	M. Robertson (Jr)	1
25	X. Bejarano (Jr)	1
29	Xavier Pinion (Jr)	1

Palo Verde Valley

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	E
	Team Totals	.818	22	14	4	4
1	Nick Mojica (Jr)	1.000	7	7	0	0
9	Jaydon Castillo (Fr)	1.000	6	6	0	0
10	M. Robertson (Jr)	1.000	1	1	0	0
23	Angel Cervantez (Sr)	.000	1	0	0	1
25	X. Bejarano (Jr)	1.000	1	0	1	0
29	David Luna (Sr)	.000	1	0	0	1
29	Xavier Pinion (Jr)	.600	5	0	3	2

Palo Verde Valley

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	W	L	W%	APP	GS	CG	SO	SV	NH	PG
	Team Totals	4.50	0	0		1				0
8	Cyrus Flores (So)	4.50	0	0		1				0

Palo Verde Valley

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	2B	3B	HR	BF	AB
	Team Totals	4.2	4	6	3	3	7			0	25	22
8	Cyrus Flores (So)	4.2	4	6	3	3	7			0	25	22

Palo Verde Valley

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	WP	HBP	SF	SH/B	#P	BK	PO	SB
	Team Totals	.182	.280	0	0			93	0	0	2
8	Cyrus Flores (So)	.182	.280	0	0			93	0	0	2

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Needles (21-22)

Needles has not entered stats for this game.

Game Story

California High School Baseball - Palo Verde Valley holds off Needles

March 19, 2022: Needles, CA 92363

Spectators at Saturday's non-league battle between the Palo Verde Valley Yellow Jackets (Blythe, CA) and the host Needles Mustangs (Needles, CA), saw Palo Verde Valley's baseball squad beat Needles by a margin of 10-6.

Coming up next, the Yellow Jackets play the Vincent Memorial Scots (Calexico, CA) in a Manzanita battle, on Friday, April 1. Palo Verde Valley will attempt to better on its 2-10 season record. The Scots enter the battle with a 1-0 record after their 17-2 non-league win over Borrego Springs (Borrego Springs, CA).

The Mustangs now sport a 6-6 record. They take the field next when they travel to Calvary Chapel Christian for a 2A Southern battle on Thursday, March 24.

Rankings & Records

Palo Verde Valley (21-22)

CA	Section	Sec. Div.
867	79	3

Overall	League	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	League %	RF	RA
11-22	3-6	1-5	10-15	0-2	.333	.333	158	213

Needles (21-22)

CA	State Div.
36	3

Overall	League	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	League %	RF	RA
24-9	14-0	14-5	9-1	1-3	.727	1.000	278	108

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	R	H	E
Palo Verde Valley	.9	.8	1.0	.6	1.0	.5	.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	4.8	6.4	2.1
Needles	1.7	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.5	2.1	2.3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8.4	5.9	1.6

Team Stat Comparison

Palo Verde Valley		Needles
.294	Batting Average	.304
.405	On Base Percentage	.407
.367	Slugging Percentage	.410
.876	Fielding Percentage	.905
.222	Win Loss Percentage	.667

Team Leaders

Palo Verde Valley		Needles	National Avg.
#9 Jaydon Castillo.417	Batting Average	#1 Wesley Hazelwood.429	.249
#11 Parker Loureiro.500	On Base Percentage	#14 Lincoln Jones1.000	.375
#11 Parker Loureiro.571	Slugging Percentage	#20 Kai Cortez.644	.315
#22 Ty Phipps1.000	Fielding Percentage	#17 Caezar Rabanalas1.000	.857
#21 JC Phipps.333	Win Loss Percentage	#10 Collin Smith1.000	.539

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Palo Verde Valley	1-5		Needles	3-5

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
2/24/22	Palo Verde Valley	Holtville	(L) 11-0	3/18/22	Holtville	Needles	(W) 7-3
3/19/22	Palo Verde Valley	Holtville	(L) 12-1
3/12/22	Palo Verde Valley	Kofa	(L) 9-3	3/3/22	Kofa	Needles	(L) 9-8
3/17/22	Palo Verde Valley	Pahrump Valley	(L) 8-7	3/14/22	Pahrump Valley	Needles	(L) 10-5
3/18/22	Palo Verde Valley	River Valley	(L) 5-1	3/4/22	Needles	River Valley	(L) 4-0
				4/14/22	River Valley	Needles	(L) 5-0
4/14/22	Palo Verde Valley	The Meadows School	(W) 14-12	5/6/22	The Meadows School	Needles	(W) 18-6
				5/6/22	The Meadows School	Needles	(W) 15-5
				5/13/22	Needles	The Meadows School	(L) 8-2

Record Breakdown

Palo Verde Valley (21-22)		Needles (21-22)
11-22	Overall	24-9
3-6	League	14-0
5-3	Non-League	4-3
1-0	Head to Head	0-1
1-5	Common Opponent	3-5
1-5	Home	14-5
10-15	Away	9-1
0-2	Neutral	1-3
1-1	Playoff	1-2
10-18	In-State	1-1
1-4	Out-of-State	23-8