Counting heads as his baseball players filed onto the bus following a road game this season, Oceanside High coach Dave Barrett realized one athlete was missing.

“Has anyone seen Matt Cerda?” Barrett yelled into the bus. Turns out the senior shortstop was busy cleaning the dugout the visiting Pirates occupied during the game.

“Leaving it the way we found it was the right thing to do,” Cerda said.

Cerda will have to decide “what's right” for him in the near future. The Chicago Cubs selected Cerda in the fourth round – the 131st pick overall – of yesterday's major league draft. He was the first local high school player chosen.

Fallbrook outfielder Clark Murphy was drafted in the fifth round (153rd overall) by the Texas Rangers.

Both players have baseball college scholarships in hand – Cerda to USD and Murphy to UCLA.

“The way I look at it is it's a win-win situation for me,” said Cerda, who batted .562 with 16 home runs and 16 stolen bases.

The signing bonus last year for Cerda's position in the draft was $207,000. A USD scholarship is $42,000 per year.

Murphy got the call from the Rangers less than an hour before he was to attend his high school graduation last night.

Murphy, who batted .446 with a dozen home runs, indicated he was leaning toward signing.

“Just to have this chance is something I've wanted my whole life,” Murphy said. “I was waiting for the phone to ring all day.”