Unexpected Perspectives in Bruins 16-0 Win Over Condors

Perspective can be a powerful, perhaps even, sometimes, a game-changing tool.

A 16-0 baseball game typically lends one to believe that the team scoring 16 runs is perfectly pleased with the outcome, while the squad shutout on the scoreboard is definitely dejected, right?

Well, at least for one afternoon, the opposite rang true after the Santa Clara Bruins’ lopsided victory over the MacDonald Condors on Thursday, March 13.

After the game, Bruins’ star senior Andrew Traffas expressed disappointment despite Santa Clara’s dominant victory.

“I feel we are getting a little off track,” noted Traffas, seemingly in contrast to the team’s perfect 6-0 start to the season. “At the beginning of the year, we were really locked in, but this past week we have been a little bit off our game. We haven’t been as locked in as we should be. There is a fine line between having fun and goofing off.”

The cliche “wise beyond your years” comes to mind when hearing a teenager speak in such a manner after his team scored a double-digit victory. That level of maturity might just make the difference for the Bruins this season in a year with high expectations.

“We’re trying to build something here,” remarked Bruins Manager Pedro Martinez. “We know we can be better. We hold ourselves to a higher standard. We are trying to keep it one game at a time, but obviously, we have a bigger picture. We want to win our league, and we want to win in CCS. The program hasn’t won a CCS game since 2005.”

On the other side of the ledger, MacDonald has only been in existence since 2022. This season is the first year the Condors have ever fielded a varsity baseball team, and the general attitude is far more upbeat than one might have expected.

“I see potential here; I definitely see it,” responded Condors junior Pablo Guzman. “Against this team, we can do it. Just keep on working hard every day.”

“For us the score doesn’t really matter, just as long as we go out here and play our best baseball,” added fellow junior Connor Roberts. “It’s definitely fun playing opponents like this whom we know, players we know. Pushes us to be better.”

Manager Robert Maes was perhaps the most bullish of all the MacDonald postgame speakers when it comes to the program’s potential.

“We have a very young baseball team, a lot of freshmen, a lot of sophomores, but I think right now we do have the pieces moving forward that we are really going to compete in this El Camino Division,” said Maes. “The two arms I threw today, both freshmen, have a lot to build off of. The top of my order is all freshmen and sophomores. I think as long as we stay together as a team for a while and put the work in, we are really going to make an impact in the next two to three years in this league. I’m really looking forward to it.”

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