Ventura County Pirates

Sunset Baseball League

Ventura County Pirates

The Ventura County Pirates Baseball is a high caliber and high quality organization in the Southern California region. Our program is coached by skilled and knowledgeable former collegiate and current MLB Scouts, dedicated to developing our players into high caliber collegiate athletes. We specialize in developmental baseball instruction for athletes wishing to compete at a higher level. We strive to help our athletes reach their personal and athletic goals and to prepare them to compete at Collegiate levels.

Our Goal is Simple: It is to develop student athletes of success and integrity. We strive to help our players serve as positive members of their team. We strive to instill a positive attitude in our athletes so they are willing to recognize the importance of mental and physical growth in the development of their baseball skills. We try to help our athletes reach their full baseball potential and meet their own personal goals.

The Pirates demonstrated this in 2017, winning the North Division championship.

Recent Ventura County Pirates News

ALL SUMMER TEAM

By Dave Sobieraj 08/07/2018, 4:00pm PDT

The SBL is proud to announce the 2018 All Summer Team:

MVP

LB – IF Tyler Wilber 50 H, 32 R, 1 HR, 22 RBI, 6 SB, .515, .542

CY YOUNG

LB – Chase Ambrose 26.2 IP, (5-0), 3 SV, 0.00 ERA, 36 K, 0.64 WHIP

FIRST TEAM ALL SUMMER

C - SH Ismael Martinez 23 H, 11 R, 1 HR, 10 RBI, .397, .478

1B - LB Colton Hector 39 H, 23 R, 4 HR, 21 RBI, 1 SB, .382, .454

2B - LB JT Navarro 43 H, 29 R, 1 HR, 27 RBI, 6 SB, .333, .397

SS - SH David Rivera 24 H, 16 R, 1 HR, 8 RBI, .436, .475

3B - LB Aaron Takacs 50 H, 40 R, 1 HR, 35 RBI, 13 SB, .394, .503

OF - SB Andrew Crane 24 H, 15 R, 1 HR, 13 RBI, 3 SB, .348, .444

OF - SS Charlie Nasuti 22 H, 14 R, 1 HR, 18 RBI, 8 SB, .328, .415

OF - SH Aaron Fawcett 20 H, 8 R, 10 RBI, .385, .421

UTL - VC Max Sterner 25 H, 8 R, 1 HR, 13 RBI, 3 SB, .312, .402; 39.1 IP (3-2), 1 SV, 2.52 ERA, 38 K, 1.30 WHIP

P - SH Matt Stearns 24 IP, (4-0), 0.75 ERA, 24 K, 0.83 WHIP

P - SS Jack Fox 26 IP (4-0), 1.04 ERA, 23 K, 0.81 WHIP

P - LB Will Anderson 39 IP (2-0), 1 SV, 1.62 ERA, 36 K, 1.21 WHIP

P - LB Reid Sebby 36 IP, (3-1), 2 SV, 1.94 ERA, 53 K, 1.17 WHIP

P - LB Austin Spinney 40 IP, (4-3), 2.25 ERA, 58 K, 1.05 WHIP

P - SS Josiah Austin 40.2 IP, (2-0), 2.24 ERA, 32 K, 1.20 WHIP

SECOND TEAM ALL SUMMER

C - LB Jeremiah Johnson 34 H, 22 R, 3 HR, 19 RBI, .343, .404

IF - SS David Frontanez 15 H, 2 R, 6 RBI, .319, .360

IF - VC Josh Arkin 25 H, 21 R, 4 HR, 23 RBI, 2 SB, .309, .427

IF - LB Ricardo Serrano 35 H, 24 R, 2 HR, 18 RBI, 4 SB, .330, .437

IF - LB Ben Barth 36 H, 29 R, 2 HR, 17 RBI, 22 SB, .310, .401

OF - VC Ellis Stevens 35 H, 25 R, 5 HR, 28 RBI, 11 SB, .289, .394

OF - LB Rafeeq Rahim 33 H, 16 R, 2 HR, 14 RBI, 11 SB, .327, .433

OF - LB Nolan Jekich 33 H, 23 R, 5 HR, 18 RBI, 4 SB, .330, .409

UTL - IVP Jesse Villalobos 13 H, 4 R, 7 RBI, .361, .439

P - VC Jesse Galindo 38.2 IP, (5-2), 2.33 ERA, 34 K, 1.29 WHIP

P - LB – Garrett Rennie 42 IP, (1-0), 3 SV, 2.36 ERA, 55 K, 0.86 WHIP

P - IVP Avery Rivera 31.1 IP, (1-0), 1 SV, 24 K, 1.15 WHIP

P - LB Tyler Cobb 33.1 IP, (7-0), 2.70 ERA, 44 K, 1.29 WHIP

P - SB Shane Whitaker 19.1 IP, (1-1), 2.33 ERA, 10 K, 1.14 WHIP

P - SS Andrew Nero 30.2 IP, (1-0), 1 SV, 2.74 ERA, 17 K, 1.11 WHIP

P - SS Seth Hoetker 30.1 IP, (1-1), 1 SV, 2.77 ERA, 25 K, 1.42 WHIP

Legends Win Championship

By Dave Sobieraj 07/29/2018, 11:30pm PDT

FULLERTON -- The Long Beach Legends defeated the Ventura County Pirates 5-2 in Game 2 of the SBL Championship Series at Cal State Fullerton Sunday afternoon.

The win gives the Legends a sweep and the championship in their first season in the Sunset League.

The Legends got off to another good start, plating two runs in the first, but the Pirates answered with two in the second to tie it up.

The next three frames were scoreless until the 6th inning when the Legends scratched out one to grab a 3-2 lead.

They got two much needed insurance runs in the top of the 9th on a two-run jack by JT Navarro. He finished with two hits, three RBI and scored two runs.

Riley Livingston and Colton Hector each added one RBI.

Hunter Konechy-Pena had two hits and one RBI for the Pirates. Cole Kriger also ripped in an RBI.

Legends Take Game 1

By Dave Sobieraj 07/29/2018, 9:00am PDT

The Long Beach Legends are one step closer to winning their first Sunset League Championship after defeating the Ventura County Pirates 10-3 in Game 1 of the Championship Series Saturday night at Cal State Fullerton.

Long Beach scored an unprecedented 10 runs in the first inning without an out even being recorded.

Aaron Takacs led the way finishing 3-3, with three RBI and two runs scored. Tyler Wilber bashed a couple of knocks with two RBI and scored once. Colton Hector added two hits, two RBI and one run scored.

Max Sterner (2 hits and 2 runs scored) and Gabriel Gonzalez (2 hits, 1 RBI, 1 run) starred for the Pirates.

Game 2 is set for 3 p.m. Sunday at Cal State Fullerton. Game 3 will immediately follow Game 2 if necessary.