Prep baseball in thick of season

Previously unbeaten Heritage wins one, loses one

BY JIM BENTON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

e Heritage baseball team took an undefeated record into a pair of tough games during the week of April 10-15.

Coach Jordan Johnson’s Eagles were ranked fth in the CHSAANow.com state poll on April 10 and defeated Valor Christian 8-1 on April 12 as pitchers Case Kunz and Henry Hossfeld combined to limit the Eagles to one run and eight hits.

On April 15, Heritage played top-seeded Rocky Mountain in Fort Collins and lost 9-5 in a game between unbeaten teams. Will Shefte had two hits and two runs batted in for the Eagles (11-1).

In other baseball action, Mason Scott went 3-for-3 with a run batted in and scored twice as third-ranked Cherry Creek (8-4) downed Arapahoe 8-5 on April 11.

Rock Canyon routs Grandview 12-0

Sets tone in Continental League

BY ALEX K.W. SCHULTZ SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

If the Rock Canyon baseball team continues to do what it did on April 12 against Grandview the rest of the season, watch out, 5A Continental League.

In their second-to-last nonleague game of the year, the Jaguars scored early, they scored often and they scored emphatically.

Led by Chase Jaworsky’s two-home-run day, the Jaguars pummeled Grandview 12-0 in a ve-inning, mercy-rule a air on their home diamond.

Jaworsy’s two dingers

— a bomb to straightaway center eld and a moonshot deposited over the rightcenter eld fence — gave the senior seven homers on the season, which is second-most in Colorado.

Jaden Clause also smacked a home run — the junior’s rst of the year.

Combined, Rock Canyon hit .524 (11-for-21) against the Wolves, who were forced to burn through four pitchers as the Jaguars teed o all afternoon.

“We can hit the ball,” fthyear Rock Canyon coach Allan Dyer said. “We work on it every day. It’s the focal point of our practices every day.”

Added Jaworsky, a threeyear varsity starter: “All the boys were hot today. We saw the ball well. We’re a