By Ed Piper
Cole Roberts, the senior ace of the Viking baseball staff, broke the career record for complete games at La Jolla High Wed., May 1, with his performance at home against Eastern League rival Scripps Ranch.
The Vikings lost an important game, 3-0. But Roberts went the distance for his fifth complete game of the season, bringing him to 14 total over the last two years.
Brent Woodall, a beloved member of La Jolla's baseball Hall of Fame, held the old record with 13 complete games in 1987 and 1988. Woodall, of course, is the former Viking baseball, football, and basketball star who died in the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11, 2001 and is honored by the annual Woodall Award that is awarded to an outstanding Viking student athlete, with his family's participation.
Cole has a 7-2 record (as of May 6), with a 1.60 ERA. He has three shutouts his senior year, and three saves. He leads assistant coach Koa Scott's pitching staff in innings pitched, by far, with 61 1/3 innings. The next closest pitcher on the staff has just over half as many innings.
Roberts has struck out 61 batters in 2024. Opposing batters are hitting .218 against him (by this reporter's calculations) on 49 hits in 225 at bats.
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