On Mother\u2019s Day, let\u2019s salute two single mothers who became the No. 1 fans for their sports-playing sons and stayed by their side through good and bad times.<\/p>\n
Sylmar pitcher Matthew Torres has tried to make it through life without a father after his parents\u2019 separation when he was 12.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not been to any high school games,\u201d Torres said.<\/p>\n
Enter his mother, Roxanne, who has raised four boys and one girl by multitasking and embracing sports activities. She intervened to help Matthew make it through tough times.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer bringing me to church and getting to know God has made me the man I am today,\u201d the 6-foot-3, 185-pound senior said.<\/p>\n
Torres became the No. 1 pitcher in the Valley Mission League this season with an 8-0 record while also hitting .488. He helped Sylmar win the league title and become the No. 1 seed for the City Section Division I playoffs.<\/p>\n
He has a secret plan scheduled for Sunday to salute his mother. Who doesn\u2019t like surprises?<\/p>\n
At Carson High, All-City quarterback Chris Fields has a mother, Shere Fletcher, who could play or coach football the way she has dived headfirst into learning the sport to be at the side of her son. <\/p>\n
There were once tough times as a family. Fields said the family was \u201cimpoverished.\u201d Mom worked multiple jobs while also studying but sacrificed everything to make sure her son and daughter could have a bright future. She became a paralegal and never misses a practice or game. She should be called \u201cCoach Fletcher\u201d but prefers mom.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been through everything with my mom,\u201d Fields said.<\/p>\n
Her Mother\u2019s Day gift since the 49ers are her favorite team is a vintage Jerry Rice jersey and a trip to Santa Anita.<\/p>\n
There are plenty of moms who\u2019ve spent countless hours driving, feeding and motivating their sports-playing sons and daughters through highs and lows.<\/p>\n
Happy Mother\u2019s Day to all.<\/p>\n
This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Mother\u2019s Day, let\u2019s salute two single mothers who became the No. 1 fans for their sports-playing sons…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[129742,129740,9342,217,1431,39924,48,52,51,47,50,49,129741,11468,6316,18158,6310,1435,7756,129743,40405],"class_list":["post-308825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-carson-high","tag-chris-fields","tag-daughter","tag-day","tag-family","tag-high-school-game","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-matthew-torres","tag-mom","tag-mother","tag-no","tag-prep-talk","tag-side","tag-son","tag-sport-activity","tag-tough-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}