Mesa Mtn. View's John Neeley delivers a pitch to Corona's Daniel Sotelo on Tuesday. (AzPreps365 photo)

Mesa Mountain View's John Neeley is a hot pitcher at present. Amend that to the entire season thus far.

The senior befuddled Corona del Sol on Tuesday, firing a complete-game, five hitter that bested the Aztecs, 2-0, in a 6A non-region game at Mountain View.

Mountain View just finished four days at the Boras Classic at Corona del Sol last week posting a 1-3 record. The Toros' losses in the tournament were 4-2, 3-2 and 8-5. Overall they are 11-4, unscathed at 6-0 in power-ranking games and those are the games that matter. Corona, which won three of four games in the Boras Classic, is now 10-4 overall, 3-3 in power-ranking contests.

"We thought we had a pattern on him, but he mixed his pitchers and we didn't know what was coming," Corona del Sol coach Dave Webb said. "He threw 72 pitches, 56 for strikes. That's crazy. You have to tip your hat."

Neeley, a 6-foot-3, right-hander, wasn't able to go full throttle when the season began fighting off illness. He pitched three times in relief and got four scoreless innings under his belt before his first start March against Gilbert. Another 17 innings later covering three starts and Neeley is 2-0 with a 0.00 earned-run average. He's allowed four runs -- all of them unearned -- in one inning against Basic NV when the Toros' defense was shoddy in the first inning.

Everything was in sync Tuesday. Neeley didn't walk a batter, struck out six and got errorless play behind him. Even a couple of very nice plays up the middle and in right field.  

"John was supposed to make his first start against Millennium (Feb. 27), but he was sick," Mountain View coach Mike Thiel said. "We anticipated he would be our No. 1, and he's pitched like it. It was nice to see the defense come back today."

Corona del Sol started junior lefty Daniel Sotelo, now in his third varsity season. Webb said Sotelo was never comfortable on the mound in this one. He pitched well enough to get a decision (two runs and five hits in four innings). But he went deep into counts too often and exited having thrown 92 pitches. The runs Sotelo allowed in the tidy, one-hour and 45-minute contest, were a solo homer to left in the second by Jared Thomas and an RBI single in the third by Dallas Wise. 

Wise was the only Mountain View player with multiple hits, going 2 for 3. Brian Kalmer collected two of Corona del Sol's hits, both singles. Mountain View takes to the road to face Kofa on Thursday while Corona del Sol is idle until a trip Saturday to Mountain Ridge.