No. 1 Granada beats SRV to win Vegas tourney
When Granada signed up to be in the Bishop Gorman baseball tournament in Las Vegas, the Matadors hoped to see some of the best talent from around the country.
But after winning three games against out-of-state opponents to get to the tournament final, No. 1 Granada faced a team on Saturday night that's a 20-minute drive from its campus — San Ramon Valley.
In what ended up being an East Bay Athletic League showdown, Granada's offense proved to be too much as the Matadors defeated the No. 15 Wolves 9-4 to capture the Bishop Gorman Invitational championship.
“One of the goals we outlined at the beginning of the season was to come to Vegas and win this tournament,” Granada pitching coach Jason Sekany said. “The guys stayed pretty calm even when we were down in this tournament. We were really just confident we could come back at any point, and so we just want to reinforce that going forward.”
The teams played each other just over three weeks ago with Granada getting the best of SRV in a 6-1 win.
The Matadors scored four times in the third inning to take a 6-2 lead. A.J. Martinez's RBI single that scored Peyton Richards capped off Granada's fourrun inning.
Granada stretched its lead to as much as five, but a solid pitching performance from Parker Warner and Luke Palma sealed the win for the Matadors in the later innings.
Warner went 2 for 3 at the plate and recorded a triple and a home run. On the mound, the Stanford commit struck out 10 and allowed three earned runs on 101 pitches.
Granada extended its winning streak to 16 and remains undefeated. The Wolves dropped to 9-5.
NO. 4 SERRA 10, ST. MARY'SSTOCKTON 1 >> A long road trip to the Central Valley might have aided in a slow start for the Padres, but Serra found its groove late in a dominant win.
Serra put up a seven spot in the top of the fifth inning capped off by Ian Armstrong's two-run homer that gave the Padres a sixrun advantage. Serra scored three more runs in the seventh to blow out the fourth best team in MaxPreps' Sacramento Metro rankings.
Armstrong finished with two hits and two RBIs to go along with his fifth-inning home run.
NO. 6 DE LA SALLE 17, GRANITE BAY 1 >> The Spartans made it look easy against the top team in the MaxPreps Sacramento Metro rankings.
De La Salle put up 10 runs in the fifth and three runs in the sixth to close out Granite Bay in dominant fashion.
Ethan Sullivan had two hits, four RBIs and a double. Tyler Spangler and Jamie Mullin each had three RBIs.
BISHOP O'DOWD 6, ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN 2 >> The Dragons (10-5-1) took a 4-0 lead after three innings and didn't look back.
O'Dowd junior Vander Cole went 2 for 4 at the plate and had two RBIs. PIONEER 7, NO. 18 MENLOATHERTON 3 >> Pioneer picked up a solid nonconference win behind a solid offensive outing from junior Lucas Leese.
Leese had two hits, three RBIs and a double in the Mustangs' win over MenloAtherton.
Softball
NO. 1 ST. FRANCIS 5, NO. 4 LIVERMORE 0 >> After the cancellation of the Livermore Stampede softball tournament because of weather conditions, some of the top teams in the Bay Area decided to make what would be the final day of the tourney into an exciting showcase.
Kate Munnerlyn and St. Francis did not disappoint.
The Texas A&M commit tossed a one-hitter, striking out 11 Livermore batters in a dominant shutout win.
“Kate's competitive and when she gets out there we always have a chance,” St. Francis coach Mike Oakland said.
Peyton Tsao got the scoring started for the Lancers, knocking in Hayden Hummel on an RBI single to center field to give St. Francis a 1-0 lead in the second inning.
Tsao wasn't finished. The 5-foot-7 freshman crushed a pitch past the center field wall to score Hummel a second time on a two-run homer, giving the Lancers a 3-0 lead in the fourth inning. It was Tsao's third home run of the season.
St. Francis added insurance runs in the seventh when Shannon Keighran drove in Jaime Oakland and
Rebecca Quinn.
The Lancers (13-0) beat Amador Valley later in the day. Munnerlyn notched her sixth victory this season. ST. FRANCIS 8, NO. 9 AMADOR VALLEY 2 >> St. Francis combined for seven runs in the second and third innings while on the way to a big win.
Tsao showed off her power for the second straight game, hitting two home runs on two hits while Munnerlyn showed off her power as she hit a three-run homer in the third.
NO. 2 MITTY 7, AMADOR VALLEY 2 (8 INN.) >> The Monarchs put up a five spot in the eighth inning to beat the Dons in extras.
After going down 2-0 in the second inning, Amador came back and scored two runs in the sixth to tie the game.
MITTY 9, LIVERMORE 5 >> Miller had two hits and two RBIs in a win over Livermore. Monarchs senior Corri Hicks scored three times, including once on a home run.
Livermore senior Jae Cosgriff went 3 for 4 at the plate to go along with an RBI and a double.
Track and field
ARCADIA INVITATIONAL >> Menlo School's Landon Pretre ran a CCS-record 8:48.11 to finish 25th in the invitational race, the meet's top division. Crystal Springs Uplands junior Ben Bouie won his race in the 3,200 with a time of 9:02.82, beating out Tuscola's Josiah Hortin by 3.4 seconds.