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n capping one of the more-complete seasons in big-school baseball, Mountain Vista did just about everything it could.

And it was on display on Sunday at All-City Field, where the Golden Eagles first pummeled Mountain Range 14-4, then used a big inning to down Continental League-rival Heritage 7-2 for their first Class 5A title. Over the two games, the Golden Eagles enjoyed virtually all of the goodies the game has to offer, such as hitting the ball out of the ball park, turning double plays, making stellar defensive plays, stealing bases, getting timely hitting and enjoying outstanding starting pitching.

Over 14 innings on Sunday, Mountain Vista scored 21 runs, had 24 hits, belted two home runs, turned three double plays and enjoyed the performances of two pitchers who went the distance in each game.

And it was nothing new from the 2018 season. The Golden Eagles mostly dominated, even scratched out a few tight ones when then had to … and they looked good doing it.

“It was insane,” Golden Eagles senior left-hander Jack Liffrig said. “I mean, look at the (statistics), Mountain Vista is No. 1, No. 1 No. 1 … it was great.”

They went 19-0 in the regular season, won two regional games, then actually took a hit to open the Championship Series, 8-1 to Arapahoe.

However, Mountain Vista didn’t blink. And did you know what it did do? It went bowling.

“It was just a shock, we didn’t know what to do,” head coach Ron Quintana said. “So instead of getting on them or yelling at them, we actually went bowling.”

Junior Sam Ireland said it was a good thing to do “and we came back and dominated.”

The Golden Eagles won their next five games. And for the record, Ireland said he rolled a 177.

As for at the ball park on Saturday, the Golden Eagles took a 1-0 lead in the final, Heritage tied it and Mountain Vista put together a six-run fourth inning to take command. Against high-end starter Riley Egloff, the Golden Eagles used an unusually high three hit batters, run-scoring singles by John Zakhem, Clay Burke, Drew Stahl and Trevor Price, and a two-run double Zach Paschke to grab a 7-1 bulge.

After that, it was all about the Mountain Vista defense, headed by Stahl, and Liffrig’s pitching. He permiited only two Eagles safeties into the seventh, when Heritage showed some life, but nailed it down with a groundout to Ireland at third base.

The Continental was dominated this season and walked away with a championship.

“We’re never going to forget this season,” Liffrig said.

Zakhem had three hits and Stahl two. Paschke, Grant Magill, Elisandro Aragon, Burke and Price had the others. In the opener, Magill and Burke had three-run homers.

An overwhelmed Quintana had a front-row seat for all of it.

“We believe in these boys and these boys believe in themselves,” he said.

 

MOUNTAIN VISTA 14, MOUNTAIN RANGE 4

Mountain Vista 204 71 – 14 14 0

Mountain Range 00 04 – 4 10 2

Cole and Magill; Polson, Brocklander (4) and O’Hagan (5), and Simmons. W – Cole. L – Polson. HR – Magill, MV, 2 on in 3^rd; Burke, MV, 2 on in fourth.

 

MOUNTAIN VISTA 7, HERITAGE 2

Mountain Vista 010 600 0 – 7 10 3

Heritage 001 000 1 – 2 4 0

Mountain Vista – Paschke ss 3-1-1-1, Stahl 2b 3-0-2-2, Ireland 3b 4-0-0-0, Magill c 3-0-1-0, Holton cr 0-2-0-0, Aragon lf 2-1-1-0, Zakhem 1b 4-0-3-2, Burke dh 3-1-1-1, Liffrig p 0-0-0-0, Price rf 3-1-1-1, Jamieson cr 0-0-0-0, Hoff cf 3-1-0-0. Totals 28-7-10-7.

Heritage – Champagne 2b 3-0-0-0, McKnight rf-p 3-0-1-1, Beauchene ss 3-0-0-0, M. Mitchell cf 2-0-0-0, Koziowitz 1b 3-0-1-0, Mahoney cr 0-1-0-0, Cummiskey 3b 3-0-1-1, Hebenstreit 3-0-0-0, Hutchinson c 2-0-1-0, Davis cr 0-0-0-0, Chacon dh 2-1-0-0, Egloff p 0-0-0-0, S. Mitchell 0-0-0-0. Totals 24-2-4-2.

E – Stahl, Paschke, Ireland. SAC -- Aragon. DP – Mountain Vista 2, Heritage. SB – Paschke, Stahl. CS – Davis. LOB – Mountain Vista 8, Heritage 3.

2B – Paschke, Koziowitz.

Batteries – Liffrig and Magill; Egloff, Chronowski (5), McKnight (6) and Hutchinson. W – Liffrig. L – Egloff. HBP –  Magill (by Egloff); Aragon (by Egloff); Hoff (by Magill). Hutchinson (by Liffrig); Price (by McKnight). T – 2:21.