Baseball
Valley Christian tightens WCAL baseball standings
Every week in the past, St. Francis had fairly a little bit of respiratory room within the race for the West Catholic Athletic League regular-season baseball championship.
Now, not a lot.
Valley Christian’s 7-5 victory at house over St. Francis on Saturday set the stage for a dramatic remaining week of the league schedule.
When Valley visits Bellarmine on Tuesday, it’ll quantity to an elimination sport for each groups. They're tied for second within the standings with 9-2-1 information. St. Francis (10-2) stays first.
If St. Francis loses at St. Ignatius on Tuesday or at house towards Archbishop Mitty in its regular-season finale Thursday, the Bellarmine-Valley winner would simply must win its remaining league sport to seize the title.
Friday, Bellarmine visits Sacred Coronary heart Cathedral and Valley performs host to Serra.
St. Francis, ranked second by the Bay Space Information Group, misplaced two video games within the standings to each of its nearest pursuers final week. No. 7 Bellarmine beat St. Francis on Tuesday, opening the door for third-ranked Valley to tighten the race much more Saturday.
Valley’s victory over St. Francis got here in the future after the Warriors scored three runs within the backside of the seventh to beat SHC 4-3.
The momentum carried over as Valley scored one within the third, 4 within the fourth and two within the fifth to take a 7-1 lead towards the WCAL chief.
St. Francis scored 4 within the seventh earlier than Valley obtained the ultimate out.
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Tatum Marsh had two hits, together with a homer, and Easton Kreshel had two hits and knocked in two runs to guide Valley, which improved to 20-4-1.
Wyatt King had a house run for St. Francis (21-4).
Granite Bay 10, No. 1 De La Salle 5
De La Salle gave up seven runs within the first two innings on its solution to a loss at house to Granite Bay in a non-league sport.
Alec Nava had three hits and two RBIs for De La Salle (18-4).
Granite Bay is 11-13.
No. 7 Bellarmine 3, No. 8 Archbishop Mitty 1
Chase Knight went 2 for 3 with two RBIs and Kyler Bacosa pitched a whole sport with seven strikeouts to guide Bellarmine to a victory on the street over Mitty in WCAL play.
Bellarmine improved to 18-5-1, 9-2-1.
Jarren Advincula had two hits and an RBI for Mitty (16-7, 5-7).
No. 12 Sacred Coronary heart Cathedral 5, St. Ignatius 4 (9 innings)
Sacred Coronary heart Cathedral scored a run within the backside of the seventh to tie the rating towards St. Ignatius after which gained the WCAL sport within the ninth.
Ivan Herrera had two hits, together with a homer, and scored three runs and Justin Tapia and Lucas Kelly additionally homered for SHC (14-9-1, 6-6).
Malcom Felix and Lenny Beatie every had two hits for SI (10-12, 3-9).