AT SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE, ABC, 10 NEWS REPORTER LAURA ACEVEDO INTRODUCES US TO OFFICER OURS. FORMER COACHES WHO ARE REMEMBERING HIM TONIGHT. >> IT'S BEEN NEARLY 15 YEARS SINCE THE COACHES WE SPOKE TO WERE COACHES OF OFFICER AUSTIN MATCH. IT BUT THEY REMEMBERED HIM LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY. >> THE SAN DIEGO POLICE DEPARTMENT KNEW AUSTIN MATCH. IT ARE AS AN OFFICER BUT HIS HIGH SCHOOL AND TRAVEL BALL COACHES KNEW HIM AS AN OUTSTANDING BASEBALL PLAYER. >> THE PLAY ARE YOU AS GIFT TO THAT? HAVE I ALWAYS THOUGHT HE CAN ACTUALLY GO A LITTLE BIT FURTHER THAN DID. GUERRA AND ANDREA SIMPSON SAY THEY BOTH COACH MATCH IT HARD DURING HIS HIGH SCHOOL YEARS. >> BOTH GOT IT AFTER HEARING HE WAS THE OFFICER KILLED IN THIS FIERY CRASH MONDAY NIGHT SHOCK. YOU KNOW, COULD YOU? >> YOU SEE SEEING THE GUYS AROUND. YOU SEE THAT THEY'RE DOING WELL. AND SO IT'S HE'S HOPING THAT WE GET THOSE PHONE CALLS. HIS FORMER COACHES DESCRIBE HIM ALMOST EXACTLY HOW CHIEF SCOTT WALL DID ON TUESDAY. >> COMPETITIVE AND ATHLETIC KNOWN FOR HIS SMILE, AND TOOK EVERYTHING HE WAS DOING SERIOUS. >> BUT WAS JUST JUST JUST. >> A PLEASURE TO BE AROUND. COACH SIMPSON SAYS MATCH A TAR AND HIS TEAMMATES STAYED CLOSE AFTER BASEBALL. >> NOW THEY SAY PEOPLE HAVE HUNDREDS OF FRIENDS, BUT HE HAD A GOOD INNER CIRCLE OF FRIENDS THAT HE HE STILL TO THIS DAY. THAT FRIENDS WITH. AND COACH CARROLL HOPES THIS LAST WILL BRING THAT TIGHT GROUP OF FRIENDS EVEN CLOSER TOGETHER. MY HOPE IS THAT THAT