LJ baseball 1, Mar Vista 0 - No-hitter by Ethan Miller

Ethan Miller (16), in catcher's

gear before the Alumni Game

Feb. 18, warms up.

(Photo by Ed Piper)

By Ed Piper

Viking Ethan Miller nearly pitched a perfect game, facing only one batter over the minimum and no-hitting Mar Vista 1-0 in a blessing for the new turf field that Coach Gary Frank's team is playing on this spring.

Miller, backed by a La Jolla defense that played error-free, dispatched the stranded Mariners with only 62 pitches. The game took one hour, nine minutes.

Said Frank, "When we throw strikes and take care of the ball, we win games."

Miller, a right-hander, threw 20 first-pitch strikes to the 24 batters he faced.