Pali High senior Holt Maybank talks about pitching in the City vs. Southern All-Star Game.
The baseball season may be over, but Palisades High seniors Holt Maybank and Cade Hulse got one last chance to take the mound as high school players Saturday in All-Star games at Birmingham High and West Los Angeles College.
Hulse, the Pitcher of the Year in the Western League, threw the first three innings and singled in his only at-bat for the City Section in its 13-7 loss to the Southern Section in the West Side All-Star Classic at West LA College. Joining Hulse on the squad were seniors from Animo Venice, King Drew, Dorsey, Locke and league rivals Fairfax, Westchester, Venice, University, Hamilton.
The Southern Section squad featured players from Loyola, St. Bernard, Santa Monica, Lawndale, Animo Leadership, Warren, Lawndale, Centennial, Beverly Hills, Salesian and Cathedral.
Hulse, who is headed for Pomona College, got off to a rocky start, allowing five runs in the first inning, but settled down after that and left the game with the City trailing 7-6 in the fourth. He hit a bloop single to right field in the bottom of the sixth.
Maybank was also suited up and ready to play in the Classic but didn’t even get one at-bat before having to leave for Van Nuys to participate in another exhibition, the City vs. Southern Section High School All-Star Game at Birmingham.
Pitching the third and fourth innings of the nine-inning contest, Maybank allowed two hits and no runs with two strikeouts for the City Section, which lost 4-2 to a Southern Section squad consisting of players from Harvard-Westlake, Alemany, Westlake, Hart, Saugus, Valencia, West Ranch, Agoura, Thousand Oaks, Moorpark and Sierra Canyon.
The City team featured players from Chatsworth, El Camino Real, Sylmar, Narbonne, Kennedy, Verdugo Hills, San Fernando, North Hollywood and Division I champion Birmingham.
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