Mater Dei starting pitcher Dylan Moss delivers a pitch against Servite in a Trinity League baseball game in Anaheim on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer)

ANAHEIM — The Trinity League baseball game between rivals Mater Dei and Servite on Wednesday at Servite High School evolved into a pitching duel between Monarchs starter Wylan Moss and Friars starter Miles Scott.

The contest was ultimately decided by a pair of clutch, pinch-hit at-bats that resulted in a 2-1 walk-off, extra-inning victory for the Friars at Servite High.

Servite (6-3,1-1) had runners at first and second with one out in the bottom of the eighth when pinch hitter Tyler Thorsteinson walked to load the bases.

Pinch hitter Isaac Ocampo then stepped into the box and was hit by a pitch, forcing in Tomas Cernius, who walked to start the inning, from third with the winning run.

Ocampo was hit on a 2-0 count to come through with the winning RBI without swinging the bat.

“I just wanted to do the job for my team,” Ocampo said. “That’s really all I wanted to do. I was waiting for my time to shine and I got my time.

The game was the second of a three-game series this week between the Friars and Monarchs (6-2, 1-1), who won the first game 5-1 on Tuesday 12 at Mater Dei.

The rubber game in the series will be played Friday at Mater Dei.

“Wednesday is always the biggest game,” Servite coach Shawn Gilbert said. “You can swing it either way. We try to win every game, but at the end of the day, you want to get the series. This gives us a chance to get the series. That’s the important thing. We have a chance going into Friday and that’s really all we’re looking for.”

Servite stranded seven runners on base over the first three innings, due in large part to Moss, who got out of a bases-load jam in the first, left runners at first and second in the second and retired the final two hitters to strand runners on first and second in the third.

The Friars had the bases loaded with no outs in the fourth and scored Jaden Liu from third on a double play for the game’s first run.

Moss then struck out Hayden Woodson to escape with minimal damage.

Scott allowed two hits and walked two hitters through six innings.

He was taken out in the seventh after giving up a walk and two singles, including an RBI single from Lawson Olmstead that tied the score and eventually sent the contest to extra innings.

“I felt good,” Scott said. “My curveball was on. Everything was on. I was hitting my spots.”

Freshman Isaiah Camacho came in to pitch for Scott and retired six of the seven hitters he faced to earn the victory.

Camacho got the sides in order in the seventh to keep the score tied after replacing Scott and kept the Monarchs off the board in the eighth, putting his team in a position to win in the bottom of the inning.

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