Article by Terry Bernal, The Daily Journal

Ian Josephson '25 got a taste of living the dream his last week as a Serra Padre.

With the Padres advancing to the CIF Northern California Division I playoffs for the first time in history, Josephson got to focus exclusively on playing baseball. The Serra seniors graduated three days before the Nor Cal opener—on the same day the Padres captured the Central Coast Section Division I championship, their first CCS title since 2009—so Josephson spent the week eating, sleeping and thinking nothing but baseball.

"Once the Nor Cal tournament started, I was already graduated, so I didn't have any school to worry about," Josephson said. "And obviously, we had been playing for so long ... I was up there not even thinking, just up there and reacting ... to the point where it almost didn't matter what pitch was coming."

Living the dream seems to jive with Josephson, as the left-handed hitting senior went 7 for 14 in the three-game Nor Cal tournament, including the first back-to-back three-hit games of his varsity career in wins over College Park-Pleasant Hill and Los Gatos

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