Valley Christian wins WCAL baseball title
Valley Christian’s baseball team did it again.
The Warriors, who have won eight Central Coast Section titles — all since 2000 — including the past two Open Division crowns, scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to knock off Mitty 3-2 in the West Cathlolic Athletic League championship game at Santa Clara University.
Down 2-1, Valley Christian (26-4) tied it on an RBI triple by Eddie Park, who scored the winning run on a one-out bases-loaded single by Mark Fairweather. It was the 12th straight win for the Warriors, who are The Chronicle’s No. 2 team and are No. 26 nationally, according to the MaxPreps computer rankings.
Mitty (19-10), which split two earlier meetings with the Warriors, took a 2-1 lead in the top of the seventh on a bases-loaded walk to Zach Yorke. In the bottom half, Trevor Haskins reached on an error and scored on Park’s triple, setting up Fairweather’s game-ender.
Park scored the first run of the game in the first on an RBI single from Jonathan Cymrot. Mitty tied it in the sixth when Connor Leaverton scored on an error. Each team finished with four hits.
Softball
#1 Foothill-Pleasanton 10, #10 Amador Valley-Pleasanton 0: Nicole May pitched a two-hitter with eight strikeouts and the host Falcons (24-0) scored six runs in the bottom of the fifth to win via the mercy rule in the East Bay Athletic League playoff championship game.
The previous two seasons, the EBAL round-robin champion — in those cases Amador Valley — lost in the playoff final, in both cases to Foothill.
Both Foothill and Amador Valley will enter the North Coast Section Division 1 playoffs starting next week. Foothill, which was beaten in last year’s NCS final by Amador Valley, no doubt will be the top seed.
Amador Valley (16-8) lost three times to...