Baseball Recap: Mission Hills Sets Scoring Season-High Against Steele Canyon

Grizzlies

Team Score (Highest)

04/01/25 vs Steele Canyon	6
03/17/25 vs La Jolla Country Day	5
03/26/25 vs Classical Academy	3
03/24/25 @ Rancho Buena Vista	3
03/15/25 @ Mission Viejo	2

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Mission Hills). They came out on top against the Steele Canyon Cougars by a score of 6-1 on Tuesday. The Grizzlies have seen this before: they got the W the last time they saw the Cougars, too.

Jaxson Jenkins and Nate Sheriff made a splash no matter where they played. Throwing, Jenkins struck out six batters over five innings while giving up just one earned run off four hits. Meanwhile, Sheriff pitched two innings while giving up no earned runs or hits. Mission Hills is 2-1 when Jenkins allows one or fewer earned runs, but 2-5 otherwise. At bat, Jenkins went 1-for-3 with one triple, one run, and one RBI, while Sheriff scored two runs while going 1-for-2. Those two runs gave Sheriff a new career-high.

In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Preston Waller, who went 1-for-3 with one triple, one run, and one RBI. That triple was his first of the season.

Mission Hills hit smart and finished the game with only two strikeouts. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Steele Canyon struck out 11 times.

Mission Hills is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games. That's provided a nice bump to their 4-6 record this season. The wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.8 runs on average over those games. As for Steele Canyon, they are on a three-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 3-8.

Both teams will have to hit the road in their upcoming games. Mission Hills will be taking part in a tournament against Santa Fe Christian at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The Eagles' pitching crew has only allowed 4.1 runs per game this season, so the Grizzlies' hitters will have their work cut out for them. We've got a battle between Cougars coming up.