Katia Nesper needed to be on high of her pitching sport Saturday as The King’s Academy aimed for its first Central Coast Part softball championship.
As anticipated, there was no margin for error within the Division I ultimate at West Valley Faculty, not towards a Gilroy staff that had allowed only one run in two earlier playoff video games.
Nesper met the problem.
The junior pitched a two-hitter with 12 strikeouts and no walks to guide fourth-seeded TKA to a 1-0 victory over second-seeded Gilroy, capping a playoff run for the Knights that included a nine-inning win over Hollister within the opening spherical and a shutout win over top-seeded Reside Oak within the semifinals.
“From the beginning of the year, we had one goal — one goal only — and that was to go to playoffs,” TKA coach Mark Avenue stated. “Last year we got there and we were one game short from getting into the championship game. This year, we we had a schedule that allowed us to be able to compete against top-level teams, and that that put us in a position now that we were we were ready for this. They stayed together as a group, they believed in each other and, let’s face it, I’ve got one of the best pitchers of the country.”
Gilroy’s Ariela Yslava was nearly as dominant as Nesper. She pitched all seven innings, permitting one run and 4 hits with 9 strikeouts and one stroll.
Kes Wong offered all of the offense Nesper wanted, hitting a one-out double to left within the second inning to drive in Hannah Woo with the sport’s solely run.
Andrea Alvarez accounted for Gilroy’s two hits.
Division II
No. 1 Hillsdale 4, No. 7 San Mateo 1: On condition that Hillsdale hadn’t misplaced to crosstown rival San Mateo since MaxPreps started recording outcomes twenty years in the past, there was a transparent favourite when the groups met on Saturday morning for the CCS Division II title at West Valley Faculty.
It was extra aggressive than once they performed on Could 13 — an 11-1 Hillsdale win — however the Knights ran their document to 16-0 over San Mateo within the MaxPreps period nonetheless.
Hillsdale scored three runs within the fifth to interrupt a 1-1 tie and went on to seize its fifth part title in softball however first since 1991.
Sophia Shelton had two hits and knocked in two runs, Taylor O’Mahony added two hits and Lola Jones struck out seven in a complete-game effort to guide Hillsdale (19-9-1).
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Alice Han had three hits, together with a homer and double, for San Mateo (16-10).
Division IV
No. 3 Woodside 4, No. 8 Palma 3: Victoria Torsh delivered the massive hit for Woodside, hitting a three-run double within the backside of the primary inning Saturday morning at San Jose Metropolis Faculty.
But it surely was Vanessa Carlos’ single within the third and fielding error on the identical play that accounted for Woodside’s fourth run, which the Wildcats wanted after Palma (10-15-1) rallied for 2 within the sixth and one within the seventh.
With the tying run on second base, Hannah Walker induced a fly out to middle discipline to finish the sport and ignite a celebration for Woodside (16-11), which gained its first CCS title in softball.
