Spirits edge St. Paul to stay atop Del Rey League standings
LANCASTER — The Paraclete softball team edged St. Paul, 6-5, on a go-ahead home run by Taylor Day in the sixth inning on Thursday at Paraclete High.
The Spirits (20-2, 6-2 Del Rey League) stayed tied for first with Bishop Amat in the Del Rey League standings.
Paraclete trailed St. Paul 5-2 in the bottom of the fifth inning. Sydney Scripter erased the deficit with one swing, hitting a three-run home run to tie the game.
“At the beginning, we really were not making adjustments well at all,” Paraclete coach Margaret Neill said. “In bottom of the fifth they finally put it together and got enough runs.”
Scripter drove in the first five runs for the Spirits, getting her team on the board in the bottom of the third. Paraclete’s Carmen Sanchez and Addison Vandecar got on base and Scripter drove them in on a base hit.
Day broke the tie in the sixth inning, hitting her second game-winning homer of the season.
Sanchez and Vandecar each had two hits. Sanchez scored two runs and Vandecar scored one.
Paraclete pitcher Jamie Sencion didn’t have her best stuff, allowing five runs on five hits and four walks with six strikeouts. She struck out the final batter to end the game. Her defense helped her throughout the game.
“All of our outfielders played really, really well today,” Neill said. “They played great defense behind Jamie today.”
Day, Sanchez and Angelina Soliz were the outfielders for the Spirits.
Day robbed a home run and Sanchez caught a ball at the fence.
Paraclete plays at St. Paul on Tuesday.
Boys Volleyball Desert Christian 3, St. Monica 0
LANCASTER — The Desert Christian boys volleyball team swept a Heritage League match against St. Monica 2512, 25-11, 25-13 on Thursday at Desert Christian High School.
The Knights improved to 13-4 overall and remain undefeated in league play at 7-0.
Desert Christian senior middle hitter Austen Collins finished with seven kills, junior outside hitter Colt Schmidt had 20 kills and 12 aces, senior outside hitter Zachary Bell added nine kills and two aces, senior setter Josiah Concepcion had 32 assists and two kills, sophomore middle hitter Kenneth Castillo finished with four blocks and senior serving specialist Jimmy Siracusa had 10 serves and one assist.
Desert Christian will host The Palmdale Aerospace Academy for a league match at 4 p.m. today.
Boys Tennis Knight 15, Littlerock 0 Lancaster 12, Knight 6
The Knight boys tennis team defeated a very shorthanded Littlerock on Thursday and lost a competitive makeup match to Lancaster on Wednesday.
The Lobos had just one singles player, who played two matches. Knight won 15-0 on mostly forfeits. Ethan Chavez and Aldonn Duero each one a 6-0 set against the lone Lobo.
“He played two sets of singles then one of the Hawks partnered up with him and played against one of our doubles teams to get a little extra practice,” Knight coach James Jutila said.
The Hawks lost to the Eagles 12-6 on Wednesday at Palmdale High School.
Lancaster won eight of nine doubles sets as Dylan Kwak and Sean Ikeuchi swept 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 at No. 1 doubles and Lucas Hidalgo and Cooper Larson picked up a 6-1, 6-1, 6-0 sweep at No. 2 doubles. No. 3 Damien and Brian won two sets, 6-3 and 6-4.
“They had very strong doubles teams and we only managed to win one doubles set,” Jutila said. “I thought we would lose more singles sets, but we ended up with 5 out of 9 sets going our way.”
Knight’s lone doubles win, 6-4, came from the No. 1 team of Wayne Jarvis and Angel Aguilar.
Chavez won two sets, 6-1, 6-2, for the Hawks, while Duero also won two sets, 6-3, 6-2, and Daniel Fragoza picked up a 6-3 victory.
Isaiah Liggins swept all three of his sets, 6-4, 6-0, 6-0, at No. 1 singles for the Eagles, while Finley L. picked up a 6-4 win at No. 2 singles.