The more things change, the more they stay the same. Once again, the Sea Kings Varsity pitchers proved to be unhittable, as the San Juan Hills Stallions found out Tuesday evening. In their home opener, the Sea Kings shut out the Stallions 6-0 to improve to 4-0 on the season.
Starter Stonehill College-commit Marcello Anelli (‘25) improved to 2-0 on the season and has started the campaign by stringing together twelve innings without allowing a run. Junior Will Chavez (‘26) pitched the final inning for the Sea Kings, striking out two.
The Sea Kings wasted no time in getting the scoring started when Princeton-commit Vincent Menard (‘25) singled home Brady Gadol (‘25) in the bottom of the first inning. In the second inning, the Sea Kings tacked on another run as they strung together four singles.
Charlie Kaster (‘26) scored on Jackson McDonald’s (‘25) RBI ground out, as the Sea Kings played add-on in the fourth inning.
The Sea Kings wrapped up the scoring with three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. With runners on second and third base, the Stallions apparently failed to read the scouting report, and intentionally walked McDonald to load the bases and bring Menard, who is hitting .538 on the season, to the plate. Menard promptly hit an 0-2 pitch back up the middle to drive in two runs, and all but put the game out of reach. The Sea Kings added a final run when William Chiechi (‘25) hit a sacrifice fly to left field to drive in McDonald.
Kaster made sure to get his cardio in for the day, as he went three for three, with a stolen base and three runs scored.
Gadol, Stevie Jones (‘26) and Menard all tallied two hits with Menard collecting three RBI’s on the day.
Gadol and Ganon Overfelt (‘25) both extended their season-long hit streaks to four games, while Chiechi and McDonald each saw their on-base streaks reach four games.
Sea Kings baseball history was made in the bottom of the fourth inning when Gadol swiped his second base of the day, and in doing so, tied John Doering as the Sea Kings all-time career leader in stolen bases.
The Sea Kings Varsity will look to stay undefeated when they face the Tesoro Titans on Friday, March 7.