Prep talk: Fremont, once best in City Section

First-year baseball coach Dino Flores of Fremont High teaches health, and for your entire semester, he had a freshman from Venezuela, Roiber Colmenares, sitting in class.

One day, Colmenares requested Flores a unusual query.

“Hey Mr. Flores,” he said in Spanish. “Do you know how I can join the baseball team?”

“Yes I do,” Flores said.

Colemenares told him enjoying baseball was all he did in Venezuela.

Then Flores had Colemenares show him how to discipline a ground ball with an imaginary ball in class.

“That’s when I knew we had something special,” Flores said. “Just his movement you could tell he’s a baseball player.”

With Colmenares main the best way, Fremont has superior to face Hamilton in Friday’s 2:30 p.m. Division III ultimate at Stengel Field. The Division II ultimate can have South East enjoying Roosevelt at 5:30 p.m. at East Los Angeles College.

“He’s our best hitter and best pitcher,” Flores said of the 5-foot-8, 140-pound freshman.

Fremont used to be a baseball energy, having gained 5 upper-division City titles, the last in 1963. There also was a 3A title in 1992.

“The history is well documented,” Flores said.

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