Prep baseball: Twilight time at TeWinkle

Barry Faulkner

If the Costa Mesa High baseball team is going to continue its run

toward a CIF Southern Section playoff berth, the Mustangs will have to do

so at their home away from home.

“We’ve played the last (regular-season) home game at our field,” said

Mesa Coach Kirk Bauermeister, who has elected to play his five remaining

Pacific Coast League home contests under the lights at TeWinkle Park,

adjacent to the Mustangs’ campus.

“With night games, we get better crowds, better umpires, the other

kids in the league come out and watch us play and more college coaches

can come out,” Bauermeister said.

The Mustangs begin their “Twilight at TeWinkle Tour” tonight at 7

against crosstown rival Estancia, which they defeated, 8-0, in the first

round.

The Eagles will host the Mustangs Friday in a 3:15 clash.

Corona del Mar, 5-0 after the first round of PCL play and 1 1/2 games

ahead of Costa Mesa and University, begins a home-and-home series against

Laguna Beach today at 3:15 at CdM.

The Artists, who made the playoffs last spring, are 1 1/2 games out of second place and risk being buried, should they not win at least one this

week.

Coach John Emme’s Sea Kings, coming off thrilling one-run wins over

University (Wednesday) and Costa Mesa (Friday in nine innings),

outslugged the Artists, 13-9, in the first round at Laguna Beach.

Meanwhile in the Sea View League, Coach Jim Kiefer’s Sailors hope to

improve upon a 1-6 league start when they visit second-place Aliso Niguel

(Wednesday) and first-place Irvine (Friday).

After winning at Woodbridge, 13-11, March 19, the Tars have dropped

four straight league games. They were outscored, 31-2, in three Sea View

setbacks last week.