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Baseball
Stay Oak’s victory over the weekend has arrange the opportunity of a four-way tie for the baseball championship within the Blossom Valley Athletic League’s Mt. Hamilton Division.
With two video games left within the 10-team league, Leigh holds a two-game benefit over Stay Oak, Pioneer and Branham.
Leigh performs host to Stay Oak on Tuesday after which travels to Stay Oak on Thursday.
Branham closes with two video games in opposition to Sobrato, which is winless in league play.
Pioneer finishes with two video games in opposition to Leland.
If Stay Oak sweeps Leigh and Branham and Pioneer win each of their video games, the 4 groups will end with 12-6 league information.
Leigh might have clinched the title Thursday however misplaced to Branham 2-1, a end result that ended the Longhorns’ 11-game win streak.
Stay Oak stored its title hopes alive Saturday, beating Willow Glen 5-3.
Dominic Pereira went 3 for 4, knocked in a run and scored a run and Aidan Keenan and Diego Castellanos every had two hits to steer Stay Oak. Keenan additionally drove in a run for the Acorns (15-9, 10-6)
Mark Bonenberger had two hits and an RBI for Willow Glen (13-10, 8-8).
No. 15 Leigh 9, Soquel 2
Brandon Kim hit two house runs as Leigh bounced again from its loss to Branham with a non-league victory at house over Soquel.
Alexander Beagle and Caden Jackson every had three hits and Beagle, Dylan Christian each had two RBIs because the Longhorns improved to 17-8.
Soquel fell to 5-18-1.
No. 16 Liberty 7, Pittsburg 0
Andrew Dodgson pitched a shutout and Nate Bell tripled and knocked in two runs to steer Liberty to a victory at house over Pittsburg in Bay Valley Athletic League play.
The Lions scored all seven of their runs within the third inning as they improved to 16-8, 7-3.
Pittsburg is 16-8, 6-4.
Heritage gained the league’s common season title with an 8-2 document.
The league playoffs are this week.
No. 20 Berkeley 10, Dougherty Valley 7
Berkeley rallied from a 7-1 deficit, scoring seven runs within the prime of the sixth and including two extra within the seventh, to beat Dougherty Valley in a non-league sport.
William Chang had three hits and drove in two runs and Trey Johnson went 2 for 3 with 4 RBIs because the Yellowjackets upped their document to 16-7.
Luke Duncan and Jayden Rouse every had two hits for Dougherty Valley (10-13).
Softball
No. 5 Capuchino beats Leigh, No. 17 Wilcox
Capuchino scored seven runs within the first inning and cruised to a 10-0 rout of Leigh that ended after 5 innings due to the 10-run rule.
The Mustangs got here again later Saturday to roll previous Wilcox 10-3, taking command once more within the first inning, this time with six runs.
Avery Motroni had two hits, together with a house run, and knocked in two runs, Madison Choi had a double and three RBIs and Nohemi Livingston pitched 5 hitless innings in opposition to Leigh.
Within the win over Wilcox, Lola Sierra went 4 for 4 with two RBIs and Motroni doubled and knocked in two runs to paved the way.
The victories improved Capuchino’s document to 22-4.
Leigh is 16-8 and Wilcox is 14-8.
Boys tennis
Washington-Fremont’s Cyrus Ahmad, seeded No. 1, defeated second-seeded Jonathan Doughtie of Analy in straight units to seize the North Coast Part Division I singles championship.
Ahmad gained all 4 of his matches within the event with out dropping a set.
Mission San Jose’s Marco Yang and Shrish Choudhary gained the part’s D-I doubles title, beating third-seeded Elbert Mentioned and Jerry Xu of California within the ultimate.
Boys volleyball
CCS
The Central Coast Part playoffs are this week. Within the Open Division on Tuesday, top-seeded St. Francis performs host to No. 8 Mountain View, seventh-seeded Cupertino visits No. 2 Archbishop Mitty, third-seeded Valley Christian shall be at house to face No. 6 Santa Cruz and fifth-seeded Sacred Coronary heart Cathedral travels to No. 4 Homestead. The matches begin at 7 p.m.
Bellarmine is the No. 1 seed in Division I and Harker is the highest seed in Division II.
The finals in all divisions are Saturday.
NCS
The NCS playoffs have reached the semifinals, with all matches Tuesday. The finals in every division are Thursday.
Listed below are the semifinal matchups, all scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.:
In Division I, top-seeded Foothill shall be at house to face No. 5 Granada and No. 3 Amador Valley will go to No. 2 Dublin.
In Division II, No. 4 De La Salle travels to No. 1 Campolindo and No. 2 Tamalpais performs host to No. 3 Northgate.
In Division III, No. 1 Bishop O’Dowd shall be at house to play No. 4 Archie Williams and No. 3 Acalanes visits No. 2 Moreau Catholic.
In Division IV, No. 4 City will journey to top-seeded Berean Christian and No. 3 St. Joseph Notre Dame will play No. 2 California Crosspoint at Chabot Faculty.