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Swisher Saving Grace for St. Bonaventure

By STEVE HENSON

The key to St. Bonaventure High’s surge to the Tri-Valley League title is that rarity in high school baseball: a closer.

Jack Swisher has eight saves in 10 appearances, leading the Seraphs to a 16-3 record, 9-1 in league play.

Swisher makes life easy for starters Tucker Bennett (6-0) and Gilbert Infante (6-1), who have earned-run averages under 2.00. They go hard for as long as they can knowing Swisher will be there to finish.

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Swisher contributes with the bat too. He is batting .371 with a team-high 18 runs batted in.

Four players have combined for 42 stolen bases, led by Brandon Mascorre with 13 and Mike Trejo with 12. Swisher has nine.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a breaking news and enterprise reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2023 and in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club. He has been honored several times by APSE — most recently in 2023 and 2021 — and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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