NCS baseball
Division I
No. 1 Foothill, No. 2 Clayton Valley rally late
The highest two seeds within the North Coast Part Division I baseball playoffs discovered themselves in an identically tense spot as they got here to bat within the house half of the sixth inning Tuesday.
With six outs doubtlessly left of their season, each trailed double-digit seeded opponents of their opening-round video games.
Then, identical to that, each rallied.
Prime-seeded Foothill scored 5 within the sixth to defeat No. 16 seed Monte Vista 6-2. No. 2 seed Clayton Valley Constitution scored 4 within the sixth and held off No. 15 seed Dublin 5-3.
Monte Vista had scored a run within the fourth and one other within the sixth to take a 2-1 lead. Dublin additionally led 2-1 within the sixth after it scored within the prime half of that body to interrupt a 1-1 tie.
Gabe DeBenedetto had two hits and two RBIs and Nick Walsh drove in two runs for Foothill.
Leighton Helfrick and Carl Rice every had two RBIs for Clayton Valley.
Foothill (23-4) will play host to Heritage and Clayton Valley (21-4) shall be at house to face Liberty within the quarterfinals on Friday.
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No. 3 De La Salle 10, No. 14 Freedom 3
De La Salle noticed Freedom two runs within the customer’s half of the primary inning after which took command on its method to an opening-round victory at house in Harmony.
The win was De La Salle’s seventeenth in a row within the NCS playoffs courting to a loss to Faculty Park within the 2015 Division I last. The Spartans received 4 consecutive part titles from 2016 to 2019. There have been no NCS playoffs the previous two years due to the pandemic.
Donovan Chriss and Cade Cushing every knocked in two runs and Chriss allowed two runs (one earned) in 5 innings as De La Salle superior to the quarterfinals Friday at house towards San Ramon Valley.
De La Salle has received two of the three video games this season towards SRV, together with a 10-9 nine-inning comeback victory within the East Bay Athletic League semifinals final week.
No. 12 Granada 3, No. 5 Faculty Park 2
Joshua Morano caught out seven in 5 innings as Granada went on the street and upset Faculty Park.
Morano and Colin Johnston every knocked in a run and Gio Costello bought the save for the Matadors (16-10).
Peter De Wit and Jacob Courtney had an RBI apiece for Faculty Park, which completed 16-9.
Granada will go to California on Friday. California beat Granada 1-0 this spring in East Bay Athletic League play.
No. 6 San Ramon Valley 7, No. 11 Pittsburg 5
San Ramon Valley rallied with two outs within the customer’s half of the sixth inning, scoring two runs to interrupt a 5-5 tie and beat Pittsburg in a first-round recreation.
UC Santa Barbara-bound Blake Jacobs roped a single to right-center area to attain Chase Salisbury for the game-winning run. Within the subsequent at-bat, Luke Baker introduced in Jacobs on a double to make it 7-5.
San Ramon Valley (16-10) will play at De La Salle on Friday.
Pittsburg completed 19-9.
No. 7 Liberty 3, No. 10 Acalanes 2
Liberty’s Michael Baker hit a go-ahead two-run homer within the house half of the fifth inning to elevate the Lions to a first-round victory over Acalanes.
David Roberts pitched an entire recreation and struck out 5 for Liberty, which advances to play at second-seeded Clayton Valley on Friday.
Jack Cusumano and Dante Montgomery every knocked in a run for Acalanes (15-10).
No. 9 Heritage 10, No. 8 Berkeley 0 (5 innings)
Heritage scored 9 runs within the first inning on the street and rolled previous Berkeley in an opening-round recreation.
Anthony Potestio hit a house run and a triple and knocked in three runs and Landon Marchetti and Bryce Liechty held Berkeley to 2 hits.
Heritage (16-10) advances to play at prime seed Foothill on Friday.
Berkeley completed 19-7.
Division III
No. 2 Bishop O’Dowd 8, No. 15 Sonoma Valley 3
Bishop O’Dowd, taking part in at Laney Faculty in Oakland, broke a 2-2 tie by scoring six runs within the fourth inning and beat Sonoma Valley in a first-round recreation.
Jacob Anteneh had three hits and two RBIs, Cole Pugsley knocked in two runs and Jonathan Schnoebelen struck out 5 in two innings.
Bishop O’Dowd (17-9) will host San Marin on Friday at Laney Faculty.
Sonoma Valley completed 10-15.
Division V
No. 1 Berean Christian 20, No. 16 Higher Lake 0 (5 innings)
Tom Reed, Griffin DeRusso and Ivver Vertulfo threw a mixed no-hitter in Berean Christian’s shutout win towards visiting Higher Lake.
The Eagles scored 13 runs within the second inning. Luke Meyer went 3 for 4 with two doubles and 4 RBIs and Sebastian Gonzalez had three hits and scored 4 runs.
Berean Christian (16-9) will host The Bay Faculty on Friday at Harmony Excessive Faculty.
Higher Lake completed 7-8.
NCS softball
Division II
No. 1 Livermore 11, No. 16 Ukiah 0 (5 innings)
Livermore overpowered visiting Ukiah as Taylor Rodriguez pitched an ideal recreation with 14 strikeouts and Jae Cosgriff went 4 for 4 with two homers and 7 RBIs to cleared the path.
Jori Wilkendorf additionally homered for Livermore (23-3-1).
The Cowboys scored two runs within the first, second and third innings and ended it with 5 within the house half of the fifth towards the sixteenth seeded
Ukiah completed 16-9.
No. 2 Benicia 17, No. 15 Las Lomas 1
Benicia scored 13 runs within the first two innings in a dominant first-round victory over visiting Las Lomas.
The Panthers had 15 hits, allowed three hits and improved to 19-6.
Las Lomas completed 16-7.
Benicia will host Alhambra on Friday. The Diablo Athletic League Foothill Division members performed twice this spring, with Benicia profitable each video games.
Boys golf
CCS championships
Lynbrook senior Anton Ouyang shot a 1-under-par 70 to edge Serra junior William Walsh by a stroke to seize the Central Coast Part boys golf championship on Tuesday at Laguna Seca Golf Ranch.
Crystal Springs Uplands (377) received the group title, with Lynbrook (382) ending second and Stevenson (389) putting third.
The highest three groups and 4 people from not these groups advance to Monday’s California Interscholastic Federation Northern California regional at Berkeley Nation Membership.
Walsh, Serra’s Trevor Moquin (72) and Monta Vista’s Calvin Kong (73) and Ethan Lien (73) additionally moved on.
Ouyang is certain for Stanford.
Walsh, son of Serra soccer coach Patrick Walsh, is dedicated to Pepperdine.