Amador Valley stuns No. 1 Granada behind Foley
There will be no undefeated season for Granada. After 16 consecutive victories, the Livermore school found itself on the short end of the scoreboard Wednesday.
Amador Valley pulled off the upset, beating the Bay Area News Group's topranked team 5-2 in an East Bay Athletic League game. The Dons scored two in the top half of the second for a 2-0 lead and three in the sixth to stretch a one-run advantage to four.
Granada got a home run from Riley Winchell in the fourth and Mikey Boyd in the sixth, but that was all the scoring the Matadors -- the No. 1 team in the state, per Cal-Hi Sports -could muster against righthander Matthew Foley, who pitched a complete game.
Foley's single in the second led to an error that pushed across the first run for Amador Valley. Foley scored two batters later on Gage Talbot's groundout.
Kyle Barbera's double brought in another run to make it 3-1 in the sixth. Aaron Solomon followed with a two-run double to widen the margin to 5-1.
Amador Valley (9-8, 4-3) will host Granada (16-1, 5-1) today.
“Honestly, we were 8-8 going in, but we've lost like six one-run games and games we probably should have won,” Amador Valley coach Louis Cesario said. “We just kind of talked about we're really close to finishing it up. Matt Foley pitched great because that's a good hitting team. ... We finally put one together today.”
NO. 5 DE LA SALLE 28, FOOTHILL 2 >> The two-time defending Northern California Division I champions have hit their stride in a major way over the past week, their 28-run explosion on Wednesday at Foothill following a 17-1 rout of Granite Bay on Saturday and a 24-1 pasting of Freedom on Friday.
After scoring 65 runs in its first 10 games, De La Salle has scored 69 in its past three.
Wednesday, the Spartans led only 1-0 after three innings.
Hank Tripaldi went 3 for 5 with two doubles and five RBIs, Carlo Garcia had a home run and four RBIs and Ethan Sullivan had two hits and three RBIs to help lead the onslaught.
NO. 8 SAN RAMON VALLEY 9, DOUGHERTY VALLEY 1 >> Marco Jones had two hits, including a double, and drove in three runs Joseph Coupland went 3 for 3 with a double and two RBIs to lead San Ramon Valley (105, 5-1) to an EBAL victory on the road over Dougherty Valley (6-10, 2-4).
THE KING'S ACADEMY 2, CAPUCHINO 1 >> Toby Trotter gave up one run in six innings and Anthony White and Nate Plata each had a hit and scored a run to lead TKA to a narrow victory at home over Capuchino in Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division play.
NO. 7 LOS GATOS 10, GUNN 2 >> Los Gatos built a 10-0 lead after three innings as it breezed to a victory at home over Gunn in SCVAL De Anza Division play.
Zach Biller had two hits, including a home run, and Brayden Smith tripled and had three RBIs to lead the Wildcats.
NO. 12 JAMES LOGAN 12, WASHINGTON-FREMONT 0 >> In a matchup between teams that had not lost in Mission Valley Athletic League play, Logan scored seven runs in the fifth to take command as the Colts cruised to the victory.
Trevian Martinez had two hits and four RBIs, Cristian Padilla went 2 for 3 with two RBIs and Westley Vega pitched six strong innings for Logan, which improved to 11-3, 5-0.
Softball
NO. 1 ST. FRANCIS 6, NO. 2 ARCHBISHOP MITTY 0 >> No. 1 St. Francis blanks No. 2 Mitty behind dominant performance from Kate Munnerlyn in the West Catholic Athletic League opener at Mitty.
Wednesday's contest was the first of a two-game series as Mitty is scheduled to travel to St. Francis today.
Munnerlyn had a dominant outing at the plate and in the pitcher's circle for St. Francis. The Texas A&M commit went 3 for 3, had four RBIs and hit a threerun homer. She struck out 11 and allowed just two hits in a complete game shutout.
St. Francis sophomore Jaime Oakland went 2 for 3 at the plate and had an RBI.
NO. 14 GILROY 12, SANTA TERESA 0 (5 INN.) >> Ariela Yslava pitched a one-hitter and Andrea Alvarez had three hits, including two doubles, and four RBIs to lead Gilroy to a mercy-rule rout of host Santa Teresa in a BVAL Mt. Hamilton Division game.
SOBRATO 4, NO. 13 BRANHAM 1 >> Kiyah Vasquez had two hits and an RBI and Amber Rodriguez had two hits and scored a run as Sobrato prevailed on the road over Branham in Blossom Valley Athletic League Mt. Hamilton Division play.
BISHOP O'DOWD 17, MT. EDEN 9>> In a wild nonleague game, Riley Veenstra had three hits and drove in six runs and Zoe Bolick had three hits and knocked in three runs to lead O'Dowd.
Andrea Toledo led Mt. Eden with three hits, including a home run, and five RBIs.