Max Damron and the Carpinteria High baseball team shut out previously undefeated Malibu on Friday in a 4-0 Frontier League victory for the Warriors.
Damron struck out seven batters in a complete-game performance that head coach Pat Cooney called his best of the season.
Malibu was 9-0 overall and 4-0 in league play entering the game. The Sharks are Maxpreps’ No. 1 team in Division 6.
Now the Warriors, the No. 30 team in the same rankings, are alone in first place at 4-0 while Malibu falls to 4-1.
David Olvera’s two-run single in the second inning put the Warriors up 2-0. Carpinteria scored two more in the fifth, highlighted by a Kevin Stein double to right-center that scored Haley Van Stein.
Anthony Rodriguez recorded a multi-hit game with a stolen base and run scored.
The Warriors’ next game is another Frontier League contest on Thursday at Santa Clara.
CARPINTERIA 4, MALIBU 0
M 000 000 0 – 0 3 2
C 020 020 x – 4 6 2M – Simoneau, Allen (5), and Falk. C – Damron, and Stein.
2b – M 1 (George); C 1 (Stein) .
