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Taft Highland

Wildcats

Scots

The Highland (Bakersfield, CA) varsity baseball team won Wednesday's home non-conference game against Taft (CA) by a score of 10-0.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Taft	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	0	2	2
Highland	4	0	4	2	0	-	-	10	7	1

Recap
Box Score
Matchup Info

Game Stats

Highland (24-25)

Taft

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	H
	Team Totals	.091	23	22	2
1	Dylan Clark (Sr)	.000	3	3	0
2	Cash Clark (Sr)	.000	3	3	0
3	Blayne Farkas (Fr)	.000	2	2	0
4	C. Bethel (So)	.000	2	2	0
6	Rowdy Kenley (Sr)	.000	3	3	0
16	Hadley Jones (Jr)	.000	1	1	0
17	Ben Nuncio (Jr)	.000	3	2	0
18	Matthew Morse (Jr)	1.000	1	1	1
19	Gavin Upshaw (Fr)	.000	1	1	0
23	Max Doyle (Sr)	.000	1	1	0
25	W. Espinoza (Sr)	.333	3	3	1

Highland

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	2B
	Team Totals	.400	29	20	10	8	8	1
1	A. Tomlinson (Sr)	.000	2	1	0	0	0	0
2	Santiago Blanco (Sr)	.667	3	3	1	2	2	0
3	Isaiah Salas (So)	.000	3	1	1	0	0	0
10	Elijah Legan (Sr)	1.000	3	2	1	2	2	0
11	Izaiah Ott (Jr)	.667	4	3	2	2	2	1
13	Jacob Berumen (Sr)	.000	4	3	2	0	0	0
16	Nathan Valencia (Fr)	.000	1	1	0	0	0	0
17	Anthony Garza (Jr)	.000	3	3	0	0	1	0
18	Easton Tatman (Fr)		1	0	0	0	0	0
20	R. Gutierrez (Jr)	.667	3	3	2	2	1	0
24	Brayden Tatman (Sr)		2	0	1	0	0	0

Taft

#	Athlete Name	BB	K	ROE	FC	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	1	7	1	2	8	.130	.091	.221
1	Dylan Clark (Sr)	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000
2	Cash Clark (Sr)	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.000	.000
3	Blayne Farkas (Fr)	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000
4	C. Bethel (So)	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000
6	Rowdy Kenley (Sr)	0	2	0	1	2	.000	.000	.000
16	Hadley Jones (Jr)	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000
17	Ben Nuncio (Jr)	1	1	0	0	1	.333	.000	.333
18	Matthew Morse (Jr)	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000
19	Gavin Upshaw (Fr)	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
23	Max Doyle (Sr)	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
25	W. Espinoza (Sr)	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.666

Highland

#	Athlete Name	SF	BB	K	HBP	ROE	FC	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	1	5	3	3	1	1	7	.552	.450	1.002
1	A. Tomlinson (Sr)	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	.500	.000	.500
2	Santiago Blanco (Sr)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.667	.667	1.334
3	Isaiah Salas (So)	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	.667	.000	.667
10	Elijah Legan (Sr)	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000
11	Izaiah Ott (Jr)	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	.500	1.000	1.500
13	Jacob Berumen (Sr)	0	1	0	0	0	1	3	.250	.000	.250
16	Nathan Valencia (Fr)	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000
17	Anthony Garza (Jr)	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000
18	Easton Tatman (Fr)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.000
20	R. Gutierrez (Jr)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.667	.667	1.334
24	Brayden Tatman (Sr)	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.000		1.000

Taft

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB	SBA
	Team Totals	1
25	W. Espinoza (Sr)	1

Highland

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB
	Team Totals	4
2	Santiago Blanco (Sr)	1
11	Izaiah Ott (Jr)	1
20	R. Gutierrez (Jr)	2

Taft

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	E
	Team Totals	.909	22	15	5	2
1	Dylan Clark (Sr)	1.000	1	1	0	0
2	Cash Clark (Sr)	1.000	1	0	1	0
3	Blayne Farkas (Fr)	1.000	2	2	0	0
4	C. Bethel (So)	1.000	5	5	0	0
6	Rowdy Kenley (Sr)	1.000	5	5	0	0
17	Ben Nuncio (Jr)	.500	2	1	0	1
19	Gavin Upshaw (Fr)	.667	3	1	1	1
23	Max Doyle (Sr)	1.000	1	0	1	0
25	W. Espinoza (Sr)	1.000	2	0	2	0

Highland

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	E
	Team Totals	.957	23	15	7	1
1	A. Tomlinson (Sr)	1.000	5	3	2	0
2	Santiago Blanco (Sr)	1.000	4	1	3	0
3	Isaiah Salas (So)	1.000	4	3	1	0
8	Jordan Tellez (Jr)	1.000	5	5	0	0
10	Elijah Legan (Sr)	1.000	3	3	0	0
11	Izaiah Ott (Jr)	.500	2	0	1	1

Taft

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	W	L	W%	APP	GS	SV
	Team Totals	5.60	0	1	.000	2	1	0
23	Max Doyle (Sr)	3.50	0	0		1		0
25	W. Espinoza (Sr)	7.00		1	.000	1	1

Highland

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	W	W%	APP
	Team Totals	1	1.000	1
17	Anthony Garza (Jr)	1	1.000	1
21	Jaden Vinson (So)	0		1

Taft

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	5	7	10	4	7	4	35	24
23	Max Doyle (Sr)	2	1	2	1	3	2	12	7
25	W. Espinoza (Sr)	3	6	8	3	4	2	23	17

Highland

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	5	1	1	6	19	18
17	Anthony Garza (Jr)	4	0	1	4	14	13
21	Jaden Vinson (So)	1	1	0	2	5	5

Taft

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	WP	HBP	#P	SB
	Team Totals	.292	.514	1	4	135	2
23	Max Doyle (Sr)	.143	.500	1	2	53	0
25	W. Espinoza (Sr)	.353	.522	0	2	82	2

Highland

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	WP	#P
	Team Totals	.056	.105	1	67
17	Anthony Garza (Jr)	.000	.071	1	43
21	Jaden Vinson (So)	.200	.200	0	24

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Game Story

California High School Baseball - Highland wallops Taft

March 12, 2025: Bakersfield, CA 93306

In Wednesday's non-league game, the host Highland Scots baseball team scored a nice 10-0 win over the Taft Wildcats.

The Scots (6-1) will now prepare for their game against Liberty (Bakersfield, CA). The Patriots go into the non-league game with a 3-2 record.

Next, the Wildcats play the Arvin Bears (Arvin, CA) in a non-league game, on Friday, March 14. Taft will attempt to improve on its 0-6 season record. The Bears go into the game with a 4-2 record after their 13-2 non-league loss to Ridgeview (Bakersfield, CA).

Taft @ Highland Baseball Game Info

Wed., Mar. 12, 2025 @ 4p

The Highland (Bakersfield, CA) varsity baseball team won Wednesday's home non-conference game against Taft (CA) by a score of 10-0.

Rankings & Records

Taft (24-25)

CA	Section
652	65

Overall	League	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	League %	RF	RA
11-15	8-4	6-5	3-8	2-2	.423	.667	163	128

Highland (24-25)

CA	Section
354	31

Overall	League	Home	Away	Win %	League %	RF	RA
16-14	4-8	8-5	8-9	.533	.333	164	167

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Taft	1.4	.6	1.5	.8	1.2	.8	.1	6.3	7.4	2.7
Highland	1.3	.7	.9	.6	.5	1.3	1.1	5.5	7.4	1.3

Team Stat Comparison

Taft		Highland
.281	Batting Average	.290
.391	On Base Percentage	.387
.357	Slugging Percentage	.379
.914	Fielding Percentage	.936
.458	Win Loss Percentage	.552

Team Leaders

Taft		Highland	National Avg.
#18 Matthew Morse.529	Batting Average	#11 Izaiah Ott.421	.239
#18 Matthew Morse.619	On Base Percentage	#18 Easton Tatman.600	.379
#25 William Espinoza.607	Slugging Percentage	#10 Elijah Legan.739	.302
#11 Juan Garcia1.000	Fielding Percentage	#1 Ashton Tomlinson1.000	.860
#2 Cash Clark.714	Win Loss Percentage	#8 Jordan Tellez1.000	.532

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Taft	2-4		Highland	2-7

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
3/4/25	Ridgeview	Taft	(L) 6-3	5/5/25	Highland	Ridgeview	(L) 4-1
				5/7/25	Ridgeview	Highland	(L) 11-6
				5/9/25	Highland	Ridgeview	(L) 5-0
3/11/25	Independence	Taft	(L) 5-4	4/21/25	Independence	Highland	(L) 21-6
				4/23/25	Highland	Independence	(L) 12-2
				4/25/25	Independence	Highland	(W) 8-7
3/28/25	Garces Memorial	Taft	(W) 9-7	3/7/25	Highland	Garces Memorial	(L) 3-2
4/5/25	Sanger	Taft	(L) 3-1	5/21/25	Highland	Sanger	(L) 5-3
4/8/25	Wasco	Taft	(W) 7-0	3/1/25	Wasco	Highland	(W) 5-0
4/10/25	Taft	Wasco	(L) 6-5

Record Breakdown

Taft (24-25)		Highland (24-25)
11-15	Overall	16-14
8-4	League	4-8
1-8	Non-League	5-2
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
2-4	Common Opponent	2-7
6-5	Home	8-5
3-8	Away	8-9
2-2	Neutral	0-0
0-1	Playoff	1-1
11-15	In-State	16-14
0-0	Out-of-State	0-0