Lauren Fritschi
After one roller coaster ride of a season, the varsity Birmingham Community Charter High School baseball team ended their spring session with a rocky match-up.

“This season was really good although I wish it ended with a ring on my finger,” Lorenzo Escobar said.

Escobar, left fielder for BCCHS baseball,  is a senior from Daniel Pearl Magnet High School, and plays on the varsity Birmingham team. Escobar has stayed strong throughout his final season as a patriot. One of his greatest accomplishments was his batting average of .286. Escobar and his teammates battled hard during the strenuous match against El Camino Real, but even with an early lead the team couldn’t outlast the competition.

“In my last pep-talk I told the boys winning is the only option, do not make today your last game and remember what El Camino did to us last year,” head coach Matt Mowry said.

Last Friday the BCCHS baseball team had faced off against the El Camino Real High School baseball team in a match for the playoffs. The game was part of the California Interscholastic Federation Los Angeles City section baseball playoffs and was the match for the semifinals. The Birmingham team had hung on throughout the tournament, surviving the first round in a close match with Taft, 7-6. The team then had another heart stopping game in the quarterfinals when they just barely beat Venice, 10-9. In the end BCCHS had lost the semifinal game against Venice, 1-3, finally ending one of their most challenging seasons yet with a win to loss ratio of 20-11.

“When you spend all that time together after four years you become a family, and I didn’t want to say goodbye to my family,” Escobar said.