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May 16, 2008
\ Simi plays big and small
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Loren Ledin
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\ Drew Sandler\
\ Simi Valley High\'s 11-hit attack featured a pivotal two-run home run by Jonathan Meyer and a game-clinching grand slam homer by pitcher Nick Russo.

\ Thursday afternoon\'s baseball playoff opener hinged on a 15-foot sacrifice bunt from No. 3 hitter Brett Hale.

\ With Simi Valley and Vista del Lago locked in a scoreless tie through 3 innings, Hale\'s bunt in the bottom of the fourth inning sparked a four-run outburst and proved to be the key play in the Pioneers\' 12-2 victory in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division I playoffs at Simi Valley High.

\ After Eric Bernstein\'s leadoff single to start the inning, Hale laid down a surprise bunt that pitcher Mark Anderson fielded and unleashed a throw that sailed down the first-base line, enabling Bernstein to score all the way from first base.

\ Hale, standing on third, scored on Drew Sandler\'s base hit. Sandler, in turned, trotted home on Meyer\'s blast over the left-field fence.

\ Wham. The lead was 4-0, and the division\'s No. 4 seed never was threatened.

\ \"It turned out to be the game-changing play,\" said Simi Valley coach Matt La Belle, whose team improves to 21-8. \"I don\'t think they expected our No. 3 hitter to bunt in that spot. I wanted to put pressure on them, and I thought that was the best play. (Hale) can run, and it forced them to make a play.\"

\ Simi Valley, the Marmonte League\'s co-champion, gets the fast start it savored in postseason.

\ Russo scattered four hits through six innings, and didn\'t give up a run until allowing an RBI triple by Cole Bullard in the fifth inning.

\ Leading 4-1, Simi Valley applied the clincher in the sixth inning by scoring eight runs, highlighted by Russo\'s first grand slam of the season.

\ \"Did you see that swing,\" he said with a broad smile.

\ If the grand slam was a rarity, another stellar pitching performance was not.

\ The left-hander used his typical repertoire to control Vista del Lago.

\ \"It\'s the same scenario for me,\" Russo said. \"Throw strikes, keep the ball low and good things will happen.\"

\ Simi Valley, meanwhile, was limited to one hit in the opening three innings by Anderson, the Vista del Lago left-hander.

\ The four-run fourth changed everything.

\ Meyer, the Pioneers\' offensive leader all season, went 3 for 3, with two RBIs and two runs scored. Drew Sandler had two hits and two RBIs.

\ Meyer said a solid scouting report paid dividends with his home run. He was aware Anderson typically followed a fastball for a strike with a curveball.

\ \"I was looking for the curveball and that\'s what I got,\" he said. \"We were prepared. It\'s a pretty good start for us.\"

\ Not that Meyer expects Simi Valley to stop here.

\ \"We want to win it all,\" he said.

\ Simi Valley, which lost in the second round a year ago, advances to Round 2 on Tuesday against Martin Luther King. The site will be determined by a coin flip today.

\ Vista del Lago, which finished third in the Inland Valley League, ends its season at 16-11.

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May 16 2008
\ Baseball: Looking back on Thursday\'s first rounders
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Simi Valley flying high
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Austin Knoblauch
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\ Nick Russo\
\ With a bunch of playoff games already in the books, I thought I\'d go over some of the region\'s more notable performances to come out of the first round of the Southern Section-Toyota divisional playoffs.

\ Thanks to a grand slam by Nick Russo, pictured, the fourth-seeded Pioneers cruised to a 12-2 victory over Vista Del Lago. It\'s a little surprising it took four innings for Simi Valley to get its bats going, but, in the end, it showed why it\'s definitely one of the favorites for the divisional title.

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May 16th, 2008
\ Multidimensional man
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Inside the classroom or on the ballfield, Simi Valley\'s Chance Cross shines
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Steve Ames
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\ Chance Cross\
\ His goal was to attend an Ivy League school and, after making visits to Harvard, Yale and Princeton universities, the decision for Chance Cross of Simi Valley High was an easy one: Princeton University.

\ The 6foot1, 190pound senior two-sport athlete will head east to the New Jerseybased campus to play football this fall. He also hopes to try out for the baseball team.

\ \"At Princeton, I felt more at home,\" Cross said. \"When I was talking with the players they all seemed like they were a close group. It reminded me a lot of my baseball and football teams (the way) they hang out.

\ \"And their campus is amazing. The fields are all top-notch. It just felt like it was a good place to spend four years of my life.\"

\ Cross, who played strong safety on the Pioneer football team and left field on the Marmonte League co-champion baseball squad, plans to major in economics.

\ \"I took economics this year and that was really interesting to me,\" he said, \"so that\'s what I\'m going to major in, then hopefully I will go on to law school. I want to be a sports agent.\"

\ Chance Cross\
\ Matt La Belle, Simi Valley\'s head baseball coach, said Cross being accepted to attend Princeton has earned him a new nickname.

\ \"We call him \'Ivy\' because he\'s going to the Ivy League,\" the athletic director and head baseball coach said.

\ \"Anytime we need something answered that I\'m not smart enough to answer, we call Ivy over and get the answer.\"

\ Todd Borowski, Simi Valley\'s head football coach, was impressed with Cross as he went through the recruiting process.

\ \"I\'m sitting there listening to the Harvard coach, the Yale coach, the Princeton coach- nice choices to have in life because these guys are fighting over you. They don\'t just fight over ordinary people,\" he said.

\ With Cross on the football team, it was like having another coach on the field, Borowski said.

\ Cross\' stats are indicative of his contributions: During his junior season he made 59 tackles and had two interceptions, and as a senior, he made 85 tackles and picked off two passes.

\ Off the field, Borowski said Cross is \"just an A-1 quality person.\"

\ La Belle echoed Borowski\'s thoughts.

\ \"It\'s a good thing when you have a good kid who doesn\'t get in trouble,\" La Belle said. \"At the same time, he\'s also very solid on the athletic field. That\'s a pretty all-around kid in high school.\"

\ Cross enjoys the fact that he\'s been able to play sports with many of the same friends for much of his life.

\ \"I played T-ball on the Santa Susana team that won the 1998 Pinto World Series. We have about six of those kids on this (Simi Valley baseball) team,\" he said.

\ The players included Brent Keys, Jonathan Meyer, Matt Orloff and Teddy Smoyer.

\ \"We\'ve all known each other a long time, so we\'re pretty comfortable with this team,\" Cross said.

\ Cross said his style of play is to keep everybody at ease.

\ \"When we\'re playing well, we\'re all relaxed,\" he said. \"It seems that when we tense up, everybody\'s trying to do their own thing. I just try to keep it relaxed around the field.\"

\ With graduation quickly approaching on June 12, Cross has begun to turn some of his focus toward college and moving 2,770 miles from home, where he\'s scheduled to begin a summer program on July 12.

\ \"When I went to Princeton they were talking about it\'s the 40year plan- not just the fouryear plan- going to school,\" Cross said. \"Even when you graduate from there, and you get a great education, it\'s all the networking that goes along with it.

\ \"There are people in high places. I just figured going to a school like that, you are pretty much set. I\'ll be playing football in Division I, so that\'s pretty exciting. I just think that\'s good for me.\"

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May 13, 2008
\ Perfect Simi\'s a No. 1 seed
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Derry Eads
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\ Playoff seedings are twice as nice at Simi Valley High.

\ With a combined record of 47-8, the school\'s softball and baseball teams are Division I seeds for the CIF-Southern Section postseason, which begins today with wild-card games.

\ Playoff pairings were announced Monday by the section office.

\ Unbeaten with a school record 27 wins and ranked No. 3 in the state by CalHiSports.com, Simi Valley drew the No. 1 seed in Division I softball. The Pioneers received a first-round bye.

\ The Marmonte League co-champion Simi Valley baseball team (20-8) was seeded No. 4 and opens at home Thursday against Vista del Lago.

\ St. Bonaventure (24-4), the Tri-Valley League champion, drew the No. 3 seed in Division IV baseball. On Friday, the Seraphs will host the winner of today\'s wild-card game between La Quinta/La Quinta and Magnolia.

\ Four area baseball teams will play wild-card games today at 3:15 p.m. Ventura and Hueneme have Division II home games against Redondo and Atascadero, respectively. Oaks Christian will be on the road against Santa Ynez in Division IV and Thacher travels to Oakwood for a Division VII game.

\ In a scheduling quirk, Oak Park and Sonora play each other in baseball and softball on the same day. Sonora will host Oak Park in baseball, while the Oak Park softball team is at home against Sonora on Friday.

\ Camarillo and Vista Murrieta, the 2007 Division II baseball finalists, could be headed for an early rematch. If both win their openers on Friday, the two teams would meet Tuesday. Vista Murrieta is the No. 3 seed.

\ The draw wasn\'t good for the Pacific View League\'s Camarillo softball team either.

\ If the Scorpions, ranked in the state\'s top 20 for most of the season, win their first-round Division I game against Huntington Beach on Thursday, they could face No. 4 seed Norco in the second round.

\ The Pacific View League sent four teams to the Division I softball playoffs. Neither received a favorable draw. In the first round, Pacifica faces 2007 runner-up Hart and Oxnard travels to No. 3 seed Valencia. If Rio Mesa wins its opener, the Spartans will meet No. 2 seed Santiago/Corona on the road.

\ Five Marmonte League schools made it into the Division I softball draw. League runner-up Thousand Oaks will be at home against Northwood.

\ In Division IV softball, Ventura will be on the road Friday against No. 3 seed Gahr, while Buena travels to Downey.

\ Frontier League softball champion Santa Paula drew a Division V first-round home game against L.A. Baptist. Omega League champion Cornerstone Christian hosts Calvary Chapel/Murietta Valley in a first-round Division VII game.

\ Oxnard, the Pacific View League baseball champion, opens the Division II playoffs at home against either Foothill or Rancho Cucamonga. The Yellowjackets, who reached the 2007 semifinals, could meet No. 1 seed Redlands East Valley in the quarterfinals.

\ In the Division I baseball opening round on Thursday, Westlake travels to No. 3 seed Hart and Thousand Oaks will be at home against Millikan. If Royal gets past first-round opponent Canyon/Anaheim, it would likely face No. 1 seed Los Alamitos at home on Tuesday.

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May 9th, 2008
\ Simi, Royal baseball squads advance to Division I playoffs
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Pioneers win coin flip with Thousand Oaks, earn Marmonte\'s top seed
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\ With a 9-1 victory at Agoura High Wednesday afternoon, Simi Valley\'s baseball team earned a co-Marmonte League championship.

\ The title, which the Pioneers will share with Thousand Oaks, is the program\'s first since 1993.

\ Simi Valley ended the regular season by winning 11 of its final 14 games to finish with a 20-8 overall record and 11-3 mark in league.

\ Following a coin flip, Simi Valley will be the No. 1 seed out of the Marmonte League in the CIF-Southern Section Division I postseason. Playoff brackets will be announced Monday.

\ Last season, Simi Valley finished third in league and lost in the second round of the playoffs to Long Beach Wilson.

\ Simi\'s crosstown rival, Royal High, will enter the playoffs as the league\'s No. 3 seed after finishing the season 19-8 overall and 9-5 in league.

\ Royal has won six of its last eight games.

\ A year ago, RHS lost to Poly of Riverside in the first round of the postseason.

\ Calabasas, Moorpark and Westlake finished in a three-way tie for fourth place in league.

\ On Thursday, SVHS hosted a tiebreaker game between Calabasas and Moorpark, but results weren\'t final as of press time.

\ The winner of Thursday\'s game will play Westlake High today at Conejo Creek Park South in Thousand Oaks to determine which team makes the postseason.

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May 8, 2008
\ Simi proudly wears crown
\
Loren Ledin
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\ The legacy for the Simi Valley High baseball program this decade includes a CIF-Southern Section championship, high selections in the Major League Baseball draft and numerous players sent to college rosters.

\ But no Marmonte League championship. Until now, that is.

\ Ending a title drought that reached 15 years, or all the way back to the 1993 season, the Pioneers finally own a share of the league crown.

\ Nick Russo allowed just one run and five hits in a complete-game effort, Chance Cross belted a two-run homer to highlight a 10-hit attack and Simi Valley finished off a co-championship in the Marmonte League with a 9-1 victory at Agoura on Wednesday afternoon.

\ Simi Valley finishes in a first-place tie with Thousand Oaks at 1, with the two teams splitting their league matchups. Simi Valley (20-8 overall) does enter next week\'s CIF-SS Division I playoffs as the league\'s top seed by virtue of winning a coin flip.

\ The first league crown in 15 seasons is a proud trophy for the Pioneers.

\ \"It means a lot to me,\" said Russo, a senior left-hander. \"There have been a lot of great players coming through this program that never won a league championship. Now we\'ve got one. It\'s one of our main goals this season.\"

\ First baseman Eric Bernstein, who collected two hits, including a key two-run single, seconded that sentiment.

\ \"Winning the league championship was our goal ever since summer ball last year,\" he said. \"This league is so tough, it\'s never easy to win the championship.

\ We\'ve got a group of guys who believe in each other."

\ Coach Matt La Belle was pleased with the first league title under his watch.

\ \"It\'s very important,\" he said. \"We\'ve had some success, but the one thing we haven\'t done was win the league. We\'ve finally got our plaque to hang on the wall.\"

\ To win the title, Simi Valley had to avoid an upset against last-place Agoura (9-19, 2-12).

The prime catalyst was Russo, who locked up the Chargers bats while protecting a 1-0 lead through four innings.

\He yielded a double to Richard Stock and a single to Steven Keller in the first inning, but escaped the two-on threat with a double play. The Chargers used an error and a base hit to place two runners aboard in the fourth, but didn\'t score a run when Russo induced another double play.

\ For Russo, that\'s a typical tact. He lets his defense make plays.

\ \"I trust my defense completely,\" he said. \"I know if the ball is in play, my guys are going to make the plays.\"

\ While Russo was staving off the Chargers, Simi Valley opened up the lead in the final three innings.

\ Bernstein\'s two-out single off Agoura starter Garrett Aries scored two runners in the fifth to open up a 3-0 lead. Cross\' two-run homer in the sixth upped the advantage to 5-0.

\ After Stock tripled and scored the only run off Russo in the bottom of the sixth, Simi Valley erupted for four runs in the seventh to secure the verdict.

\ Cross, Bernstein and Russo each had two hits for the Pioneers.

\ Stock collected a triple and double for two of Agoura\'s five hits.

\ Russo hopes his next outing on the mound is for the Division I playoff opener.

\ \"I\'d love to start, but I think every pitcher wants to make the start in a playoff game,\" he said. \"I think we\'ve got a good chance to do well. We just need to play like we\'ve been playing.\"

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Apr 18 2008
\ Baseball: Simi Valley\'s Meyer commits to Cal State Fullerton
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Austin Knoblauch
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\ It looks as if one of the region\'s most talented players will be joining one of the nation\'s most respected collegiate baseball programs.

\ Simi Valley junior shortstop Jonathan Meyer committed to Cal State Fullerton on Thursday night. Meyer, who has played a key role in pushing the Pioneers to first place in the Marmonte League, said picking the Titans was a no-brainer.

\ \"I\'ve always wanted to go with them,\" said Meyer, who was also considering Oregon. \"I really like their program and I\'m excited about playing for one of the top teams in the nation.\"

\ Meyer is batting .433 with six home runs, 31 RBIs and 22 runs heading into this afternoon\'s home game against Moorpark. He will likely play either third base or be the catcher for the Titans.

\ Meyer is the third Simi Valley player to commit or sign to play college ball. Senior second baseman Matt Orloff has signed with Fullerton and senior pitcher Austin Thiel has signed with Cal State Monterey Bay.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
\ Simi Valley keeps working its way back
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By Loren Ledin
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\ The Simi Valley High baseball team has already demonstrated its resiliency.

\ Drop the Marmonte League opener to Calabasas? Not a problem. The Pioneers bounced back with five consecutive wins, including clutch league wins over Moorpark and Thousand Oaks.

\ Lose three straight games over spring break in the St. Paul Tournament? So what. The Pioneers re-entered league play and posted impressive wins over Newbury Park and Westlake.

\ \"These kids have a nice work ethic, and they care,\" said coach Matt LaBelle. \"We made some uncharacteristic mistakes in the St. Paul Tournament, like throwing the ball around which we never do.

\ \"But they went back to work and recovered nicely.\"

\ The program that won the CIF-Southern Section Division II championship in 2004 appear to be back with its best team in four years.

\ The Pioneers score run in bunches, get solid pitcher and, oh, yes, have pulled into a first-place tie atop the potent Marmonte League with Friday\'s 10-2 victory over Westlake.

\ Junior shortstop Jonathan Meyer has been jalapeņo-hot, batting better than .490 with a county-best six home runs. He homered, singled three times and drove in four runs in a 10-2 verdict that was Westlake\'s first loss in league play.

\ \"He\'s having a great year,\" LaBelle says of Meyer. \"But all our guys, one through nine, take a very disciplined approach to the plate. They hit the ball up the middle, and wait for their pitch. We\'ve become a group of tough outs.\"

\ Simi Valley stands 4-1 in league and 11-5 overall. Among its assets are team-wide camaraderie, and not just for current members on the team.

\ Center fielder Brett Hale is among the region\'s top RBI producers while Brent Keys, a transfer from Oaks Christian, is a top stolen-base threat.

\ Former players stay close to the program, and several participated in off-season drills.

\ \"When you\'ve got a guy like (former standout catcher) Bryan Anderson working out with us, it becomes a great lesson for our players. They see how hard he works and follows his example,\" LaBelle said.

\ LaBelle knows the only way to a Marmonte League title is the old-fashioned way. You have to earn it.

\ The Pioneers take on rival Royal High on Wednesday beginning at 3:30 p.m.

\ \"Every game is so tough,\" he said. \"Calabasas came back on us and beat us in the opener, and they\'ve proven since what a good club they have. It\'s the same in every game. You\'ve got to focus on the upcoming opponent and go on from there.\"

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Apr 7 2008
\ Shortstop Meyer is putting Simi Valley on his shoulders
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Sophomore catcher Denny Vigo Jr.
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Eric Sondheimer
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\ Jonathan Meyer\
\ Junior shortstop Jonathan Meyer of Simi Valley is having an all-star season and has helped the Pioneers pull into a first-place tie with Westlake for in the Marmonte League.

\ Meyer is batting .471 with six home runs and 29 runs batted in. He had three hits and four RBIs last week against Westlake.

\ "He worked very hard in the off-season, and it shows," Coach Matt LaBelle said.

\ Simi Valley (11-5) has another young prospect in sophomore catcher Denny Vigo Jr., whose father was a standout baseball player at El Camino Real and Cal State Northridge.

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April 5, 2008
\ Varsity Times Insider
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Baseball: Meyer and Simi Valley power past Westlake
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Austin Knoblauch
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\ It shouldn\'t surprise anyone that the biggest hit of Simi Valley\'s 10-2 victory over Westlake on Friday came off Jonathan Meyer\'s bat. After all, the junior shortstop has had a strong season at the plate and his three-run bomb in the first inning to straightaway center field wasn\'t just his longest homer of the season, but it was also enough to slay a Westlake team which had been immune to Marmonte League losses.

\ Of course, no one who actually saw Meyer walk across home plate following his sixth home run of the season actually believed he had scored the game-winning run. I know I certainly didn\'t. And after Westlake managed to score a couple runs in the third and fourth innings, I was anticipating a Warrior comeback.

\ Unfortunately for Westlake, pitchers Austin Thiel (4-1) and Nick Russo made sure that wouldn\'t happen. Thiel held the Warriors to a season-low three hits over 4 1/3 innings and Russo retired the last seven batters in order.

\ Simi Valley\'s bats didn\'t stop cracking, either. Meyer went three for four with four RBI and three runs scored and Kyle Raskin hit a two-run double in the fifth to put the game away. Drew Sandler and Chance Cross each had two hits.

\ So the warning shot has been fired -- the Pioneers are the early frontrunners to win one of the toughest league titles in the state and it\'ll be interesting to see how this team fares over the next few weeks.

\ I\'d be shocked if they go undefeated from here on out, though, due to the highly-saturated talent levels found on Thousand Oaks, Westlake and Newbury Park. However, the Pioneers\' performance on Friday was one of the most complete performances I\'ve ever seen from a high school baseball team.

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March 21, 2008
\ Year off can\'t cool Keys down
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Oaks Christian transfer feels right at home with SVHS baseball squad
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By Stephen Dorman
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\ Brent Keys\
\ As a freshman center fielder for the Oaks Christian varsity baseball team in the spring of 2006, Brent Keys terrorized TriValley League pitching with a .450 batting average, four home runs, 28 RBI, six triples and 26 stolen bases.

\ By December of that same year, Keys\' poor academic standing at OCHS had cost him his athletic eligibility, and he ended up transferring to one of his hometown schools, Simi Valley High, halfway through his sophomore campaign.

\ Forced to sit out the 2007 baseball season, Keys, an admitted sports junkie, found himself playing catch alone in his backyard while the Pioneers marched toward the playoffs.

\ \"I was devastated,\" Keys said. \"I would be so bored when I couldn\'t watch Simi play that I would just go out into the backyard and chuck the ball as high as I could, over and over again.

\ \"It was really great,\" he added sarcastically.

\ Before he could return to the field- Keys also plays football and was a national Punt, Pass and Kick champion at Oaks Christian- Keys had to improve in the classroom.

\ Brent Keys\
\ At Simi Valley, Keys hit the books hard, raising his gradepoint average nearly two full points to 3.8 in his first semester.

\ \"My dad told me to take school more seriously,\" Keys said. \"I wanted to do better, too, so I could get some college recognition with sports. So I got serious, got help from a bunch of people, and now things are working out a lot better over here.\"

\ Now a junior, and despite a full year away from the game, Keys hasn\'t missed a beat in his return to the diamond.

\ A natural center fielder, Keys has moved to right field, where he\'s firmly entrenched as the team\'s starter. The 6foot2, 200pound left-handed hitter bats leadoff for Simi Valley, giving the squad power, speed and outstanding plate discipline at the top of the order.

\ \"He can play, no doubt about it,\" Pioneer head coach Matt La Belle said. \"He is very, very talented, and he\'s working very hard at advancing his game to the next level.

\ \"Keys has been pretty successful thus far, and we anticipate that he\'ll continue being that way for us.\"

\ As an example of Keys\' impact at the top of the Simi Valley lineup, check out his stat line from last Friday\'s 11-4 Pioneer victory at Moorpark.

\ In the first inning, Keys recorded a pair of hits, stole two bases and scored twice as SVHS built a 90 lead before the Musketeers had a chance to come to the plate.

\ Keys added an opposite-field double in the third inning and was hit by a pitch in the fifth. To prove he\'s not perfect, Keys struck out looking in the seventh inning.

\ \"He gets on base and is always looking to take the extra bag,\" Simi Valley senior center fielder Brett Hale said of Keys. \"He helps lead this team.\"

\ It was Hale\'s presence in center field- he\'s a three-year starter at the position- that forced Keys\' move to right. Keys has made the adjustment well and did so without complaining, Hale said.

\ \"He\'s a team player, and moving to right benefited the team a lot,\" Hale said. \"The guy has a great arm and brings a lot of hustle and speed to the outfield.\"

\ Keys said it didn\'t take long to adjust to his new teammates, many of whom he played baseball with throughout his youth.

\ Although his older brother, Ryan, was a standout ballplayer at Royal High before moving on to Moorpark College and Cal Lutheran, Keys said Simi Valley was a better fit for him.

\ \"This is the best place for me,\" Keys said. \"There was never any question about it. It\'s my hometown, and my friends are here. It\'s just so awesome to be back on the field playing.\"

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