Lodi baseball too much for West in sweep
Jonathan Charboneau went 3-for-4 with two runs, and Logan Stout pitched six solid innings to help the Lodi High baseball team complete a sweep over West with Friday’s 14-1 victory.
Stout allowed four hits and one run before Angelo Zazzarino finished the last inning, with no hits allowed for Lodi (5-4 in the Tri-City Athletic League, 11-9).
Bobby Yabumoto went 2-for2 with an RBI and a run, Donovan Evans had a double and a run, Zazzarino had a double and a run, Colton Smithhart had a single and two runs, Hayden Lewis had a single and two runs, Cody Mize had two runs, and Ian Watanabe had a single, an RBI and a run.
TENNIS Varsity boys TCAL Tournament
While Tracy’s Tyler Shih was taking down Lincoln’s David Jackson for the TCAL singles title, the doubles tournament was just getting started on Friday.
The doubles tournament ended with Lincoln exacting a bit of revenge, with the Trojans’ Abirath Nakka and Stephen Minn beating Tracy’s Zaid Mamsa and Edward Xie.
Lodi and Tokay’s players didn’t get all that far, with Tokay’s Nick lozano and Ben Scott falling 10-7 in the quarterfinals to Mamsa and Xie. They dedeated West’s Casey White and Yasser Mohammadi 10-4 in the first round.
The rest of the Lodi and Tokay teams exited in the first round — Tokay’s Nick Slater and Shreyas Patel lost 10-3 to Tracy’s Jashdeep Dhillon and Nabeel Razi, Lodi’s Bradon Clayworth and Seth Larson lost 10-5 to West’s Neville Harvey and Mounir Mansour, Lodi’s Jeffrey Barron and Brady Pike lost 10-7 to St. mary’s David Dalporto and Luke Orlando and Lodi’s Matt Marini and Owen Christensen lost 101 to Mamsa and Xie.
That did make for an all-Lodi consolation final, though, with Barron and Pike defeating Clayworth and Larson 8-5.
SOFTBALL
Frosh-soph Lodi 19, Tokay 3
In Friday’s TCAL and crosstown game, Lodi led Tokay 5-3 entering the fourth inning. That’s when the Flames scored two runs for a 73 advantage. The final 12 runs in the 2-hour game came in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Lodi had 14 hits in the contest. Alexis Bindi had three hits that included two doubles and a home run. Gillian Donnely, along with Flame teammates McKenzie Evans, Caitlyn Alhbach and Olivia Robinson, had two hits each. Kiara Baker had a hit. In the circle, Jocelyn Moya went five innings for Lodi (7-6 in the TCAL, 10-9), as she gave up seven hits.
Violet Young had two of the Tigers’ seven hits, one of which was a triple. Natalie Nord and Belen Espinoza, along with Maura Ambriz and Karen Nateras, had a hit each.