{"id":339125,"date":"2026-05-30T14:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339125\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:21:11","slug":"prep-talk-loyola-freshman-pitcher-sheriff-hall-can-be-a-slayer-in-division-2-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339125\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: Loyola freshman pitcher Sheriff Hall can be a slayer in Division 2 final"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Week by week, freshman left-handed pitcher Sheriff Hall of Loyola High has gotten better and better. It sets up for an intriguing Southern Section Division 2 baseball final on Saturday when Hall goes against Ganesha at 5:30 p.m. at the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes\u2019 diamond.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s expected to face unbeaten left-handed pitcher Logan Schmidt after the Pomona Unified School District indicated that issues about top Ganesha players <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/highschool\/story\/2026-05-29\/ganesha-baseball-team-is-playing-with-fire-might-get-burned\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">participating in an out-of-state camp have been resolved<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happens, Hall is ready. Coach Keith Ramsey has been preparing him for this moment. Hall is 7-3 with a 2.53 ERA while pitching mostly in the tough Mission League.<\/p>\n<p>If Hall ever needs someone to put together a highlight tape, he knows whom to ask. His father,<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jason_Hall_(screenwriter)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Jason,<\/a> is a screenwriter and director who also played a recurring character in \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see if Hall can be his own slayer on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>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":"Week by week, freshman left-handed pitcher Sheriff Hall of Loyola High has gotten better and better. It sets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2135,104324,1758,21172,24771,1793,101140,48,52,51,47,50,49,224,6310,139785,595,128170,10096,139786,430],"class_list":["post-339125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-baseball","tag-buffy","tag-director","tag-division","tag-hall","tag-issue","tag-jason","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-p-m","tag-prep-talk","tag-rancho-cucamonga-quakes","tag-saturday","tag-screenwriter","tag-slayer","tag-top-ganesha-player","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339125","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=339125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}