Warriors miss CIF baseball final by one game

After Fallbrook High School's baseball team won its first two CIF playoff games, the Warriors needed only one win in the double-elimination tournament to reach the Division III final. Two losses, both to a Del Norte team the Warriors defeated in the second playoff contest, ended Fallbrook's season one game short of the CIF championship match.

"We were on a good roll," said Fallbrook coach Patrick Walker.

The first of those two losses to Del Norte ended an eight-game win streak for the Warriors, which was the longest for the program since Fallbrook won 15 consecutive games in 2005 including the...