Carmel stacked a ninth blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Friday. Everything went their way against the Monte Vista Christian Mustangs as the Carmel Padres made off with an 11-4 victory. That's more bragging rights for Carmel, who also won the pair's last head-to-head.
Zander Lunt tossed a big game, tossing six innings while giving up just one earned (and three unearned) runs off six hits.
On the hitting side, Carmel got a massive performance out of Justin LeMaster, who scored three runs and stole a base while going 3-for-4. LeMaster has been hot recently, having posted three or more hits the last three times he's played. Another player making a difference was Sean Carr, who scored three runs and stole a base while getting on base in all three of his plate appearances.
On Monte Vista Christian's side, they saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Carter Wright, who scored a run and stole two bases while going 2-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Tyson Shaw, who scored a run and stole a base while going 2-for-3.
Carmel pushed their record up to 18-4 with that win, which was their ninth straight at home. As for Monte Vista Christian, their loss dropped their record down to 3-18.
Carmel will look to defend their home field on Tuesday against Palma at 4:00 p.m. Palma will roll in looking for their seventh straight victory, something Carmel surely won't give up without a fight. As for Monte Vista Christian, they didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next game, a 4-1 defeat vs. Evergreen Valley on the 27th.
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