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Compton is a three-sport school: football, basketball, and track. <\/span>Second-year coach Brian Reed didn’t shy away from this fact when trying to figure out how to help his squad improve this season. <\/span>A perennial cellar-dweller that’s had a hard time winning any games the last few years, Compton has the beginnings of a new beginning going. <\/span>Reed knew the first thing he needed to do was to bolster his thin ranks. <\/span>“Usually, we had 15-20 kids in the entire program. <\/span>This year we’re fielding frosh\/soph and JV teams for the first time, and we’ve got about sixty kids. <\/span>Those numbers dictate you’ll get some athletes.”<\/p>\n \n The way he filled the roster was by turning to the school’s primary sports. <\/span>He brought Compton football’s defensive coordinator, Rory Dairy, on as an assistant, and Dairy has brought players with him. <\/span>He and the other Compton assistants have been recruiting since September, trying to help raise the Compton program from the ashes. <\/span>“We’re just trying to put it back on the map,” says Dairy.<\/p>\n So far the Tarbabes are 0-7, and have been outscored 91-5—Reed and his group of raw but talented players hope to improve on that significantly. <\/span>Still, with the recent struggles and a mostly inexperienced group of very athletic ball-players, Reed is keeping his goals modest. <\/span>“I’m just trying to get us off the floor,” he says. <\/p>\n THREE PLAYERS TO WATCH<\/b><\/p>\n Jovan Bronson, 1BB\/OF<\/i> – Compton’s best hitter, Bronson is right handed but bats lefty. <\/span>He’s one of the team’s most experienced players, and Reed says he’s an intelligent player as well, with a high SAT score and good knowledge of the game. Bronson has drawn a few local scouts to see Compton games.<\/span><\/p>\n Daniel Gutierrez, LHP, SS<\/i> – Gutierrez is the Tarbabes’ best pitcher, a senior with the most experience out of the Compton bullpen. “We had to get the defense working behind him,” says Reed, who hopes with some error-prone positions corrected that Gutierrez will have a better season.<\/span><\/p>\n Marcel Dorn, 2B, SS<\/i> – Dorn played baseball as a youth, but hadn’t picked up a bat since he was 12 when he joined the high school team. <\/span>Now as a senior, Reed has high hopes for Dorn—”He has a good pop in his bat,” says Reed. <\/span>“He hits for average, and he’s very coachable.”<\/span><\/p>\n WILD CARD<\/b><\/p>\n Jesse Frausto, IF <\/i>– A freshman with wheels to spare and a lot of upside, Reed thinks Frausto will see some good field time this season. <\/span>If he can grow throughout the season, he could be the face of his program for a few years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n QUOTABLE QUOTES<\/b><\/p>\n “Basketball and football dominate here—baseball just isn’t the<\/i> sport. <\/span>Getting kids out has been a problem—once we get them, we keep them. <\/span>Bringing in more football players has helped—they brought their competitiveness. <\/span>Those are players who aren’t used to losing.” – Compton coach Brian Reed on introducing his school to baseball.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our 2009 Moore League baseball preview, this one focusing on Compton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}