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Miami Herald
02-06-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Results are in. Miami Springs baseball standout voted Miami Herald High School Athlete of the Week
Miami Springs baseball player Magdiel Estevez is the Miami Herald's High School Athlete of the Week, as voted on by readers in our weekly poll. The senior allowed just one run on two hits and four walks over seven innings (complete game), while striking out six including the final three batters as the Golden Hawks (28-3) edged Santa Rosa Beach South Walton 2-1 to win the Class 3A state championship. It marked the school's first state title in baseball. Meagan Villazon, Doral Academy softball; Kathleen Serig, Gulliver Prep water polo; Isabella Benton, Plantation American Heritage softball; Dane Fox, Westminster Academy water polo; Ava Stevens, Somerset Silver Palms softball; and RJ Machado, Plantation American Heritage baseball rounded out the nominees.
Miami Herald
30-04-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Miami Springs baseball sweeps Monsignor Pace to advance to regional finals
On paper, the best-of-3 matchup between the Miami Springs and Monsignor Pace baseball teams in the Region 4-3A semifinals figured to be about as even as possible. Certainly a series that might go the full three games. So much for that. After struggling mightily all season long offensively and relying on great defense and a deep stable of effective pitchers, the Miami Springs bats came alive at the most opportune time. Following an easy 9-2 win over the Spartans on Monday, the Golden Hawks picked up right where they left off on Tuesday afternoon when they 10 more runs to easily defeat Pace 10-3 in at Springs' Shelly Dunkel Field. A total of 25 hits and 19 runs and just like that, the No. 1 seeded Hawks (24-3) disposed of the No. 4 seeded Spartans in surprisingly easy fashion to advance to the regional finals for the only the second time in program history. Springs, which made its only trip to the state final four in 2019, will host either No. 7-seeded Miami Killian or No. 6 St. Brendan next Monday in a best of-3 with a trip to the state final four in Fort Myers on the line. Killian kept its season alive on Tuesday night with a 3-2 extra inning win over St. Brendan in Game 2 of that series and the two teams will square off in a winner-take-all matchup Thursday afternoon at Killian. The star on Tuesday for Springs was starting pitcher Magdiel Estevez who not only turned in five solid innings, yielding just two hits and one run, but got it done at the plate as well where he went 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored. Estevez, who plays left field when not pitching, has been his team's offensive catalyst all season long. His 3-for-4 performance on Tuesday raised his season batting average to .403. 'To be honest, I used to put pressure on myself when I was at the plate and was kind of struggling,' said Estevez, a senior who will take his baseball talents to Miami Dade College next fall. 'I just had to learn to stop putting pressure on myself. It's just a game, you're supposed to be having fun out there and all of a sudden things came together.' As far as the entire team suddenly catching up to him on offense over the last two games, Estevez said the team went back to some basics a few weeks ago. 'We talked a couple of weeks ago that we wanted to work on something new and I guess it's working,' Estevez said. 'We woke up and it's going good for us right now so I think we'll stick to the same things.' Estevez could not have asked for more early offensive support as the Hawks plated three runs right out of the box in the bottom of the first off struggling starter Aiden Rivero who helped Springs' cause by walking four batters in the inning (along with a double by Estevez and single by Darrian Soto) as the Hawks batted around. Springs added a single run in the third on a Jordany Gonzalez double and RBI single by Taylor Ancheta and then basically slam-dunked the game away in the fourth by scoring five more times for a 9-0 lead and chasing Rivero. The big offensive highlight of the inning was a solo home run over the left field fence by catcher and senior captain Kelven Perera. 'We've been working on some things in practice that kind of helped us out a little bit and the kids have bought into it,' said Springs coach David Fanshawe of his team's sudden offensive output. 'It was a matter of just learning to level off and hit base hits, not worry as much about power.' As far as watching Estevez come through in a big way on Tuesday, both on the mound and at the plate, Fanshawe gushed away. 'Mags has been our one-two punch all year and helped carry us again today, both at the plate and on the mound,' Fanshawe said. 'He's gotten hot at the right time. Hopefully he's got a couple more good starts in him.'
