Mike Yingling grew up watching his brother Joe play baseball for Camarillo High.

After graduation, he'll return to watch his younger brother play for the Scorpions.

With his senior season hanging in the balance, the middle brother made his moment Friday afternoon.

Down by a run in the bottom of the seventh, Camarillo kept its season alive on Yingling's game-tying double and Garrett Rau's game-winning, bases-loaded single for a come-from-behind 2-1 win over visiting Temescal Canyon of Lake Elsinore in the CIF-Southern Section Division II baseball quarterfinals.

The Scorpions (27-2) will play Pacific View League foe Oxnard on Tuesday in the semifinals saturated with local teams. Rio Mesa made the other semifinal.

On the verge of scoring its 300th run of the season, Camarillo instead found itself on the verge of elimination as pitcher Matt Larkins, who entered with a perfect 12-0 record and near-perfect 0.80 ERA, used a biting curveball and a halting circle changeup to shut out a lineup that hadn't been held under three runs all season.

"He had me worried for a while," said Camarillo coach Richard Jaquez. "We knew he was a great pitcher.

"But we know we can hit anybody."

Down 1-0, shortstop Brian Wilson started the bottom of the seventh inning by reaching on an infield error.

"That was huge," said Rau. "In the playoffs, the first team to mess up is gone."

Wilson went to second on the first of two key wild pitches that gave Camarillo hope that Larkins, who had allowed just one runner reach from the second through the sixth inning, was tiring.

"It was a sign for us to get on base," said Rau. "He started bouncing balls and we started getting to him."

When Yingling, a four-year starter at catcher, made his way to the plate with one out, it was a moment nearly a century of games in the making.

"Yingling's our captain, he leads by example," said right fielder Mike Sliger. "We knew he'd do something in that spot. He's been doing it for years."

Yingling worked the count full and ripped an eye-level fastball down the left-field line to bring relief to the capacity crowd.

Jaquez called it "beautiful." Rau called it "one moment that he'll always remember."

Yingling, caked with dirt from an afternoon behind the plate, could only smile.

"It's huge," said Yingling. "I've been playing Camarillo baseball for four years and this is really special."

After Brendan Hindle reached on Larkin's second wild pitch of the inning and Kenny Wise walked, Rau ripped the game-winner to right-center field.

Rau, who also allowed seven hits and no walks in his second complete game of the season on the mound, improved to 9-1.

His only real trouble came when consecutive doubles by Jake Eccles and Matt Lunn in the fourth inning gave Temescal Canyon (24-5) a 1-0 lead.

They were the only Titans to reach second base all afternoon.

"I just had to keep us in it," said Rau. "We had to battle. That's what baseball is."

Apparently, baseball in the Division II semifinals is about the Pacific View League.

"We get knocked around all year because (supposedly) the Pacific View League isn't that good," said Jaquez. "We never get any respect."

Three of the four teams still alive in Division II are from the PVL.

"That just proves the strength of our league," said Rau.