La Jolla advanced in the Division 5 playoffs with a dominating 14-0 win over Kearny Fri., May 22, and Viking senior Jacey Taylor swatted her 28th home run in the bottom of the fourth inning to set a new LJHS record for career homers.
The two recent times the first baseman/pitcher has set the single-season record (three home runs May 14) and career mark have come in "mercy rule"/five-inning shortened games, a hurry-up situation when you didn't know if she would get enough at-bats or enough pitches in the strike zone to have a chance to hit a homer.
Jacey upped her single-season mark to 14, after breaking Emmy Cardenas' record of 12 a week ago. She had tied Emmy for the career record with the three-dinger onslaught, at 27, and sat there for eight days, until Friday's contest at home.
Coach Anthony Sarain's title hopefuls scored five runs in the first, five in the second, and added a pair of runs in each of the next frames to terminate the game against the over-matched Comets. Coach Aryn Hamilton readily admitted before opening pitch, "We're the underdogs. Most of our girls have never played softball before."
The Vikings extended their winning streak to 12 games. Sarain said last week that "we should continue winning" with that streak well into the postseason, as they are the top seed in a Division 5 that doesn't present a lot of obstacles.
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