After making a 150-mile journey from its Mountain View campus, St. Francis rapidly made itself at dwelling in its CIF NorCal Division II baseball closing at top-seeded Yuba Metropolis.
However the Lancers’ two-run, first-inning lead Saturday afternoon was gone in a blink.
Yuba Metropolis answered with two in its half of the inning after which waited till the ultimate body to interrupt the tie.
When it did — on a bases-loaded, one-out single by Max Guth — Yuba Metropolis captured the championship with a 3-2 victory.
For second-seeded St. Francis, it was its second walk-off defeat in as many journeys to a NorCal closing.
Within the first season of the CIF’s regional baseball playoffs, three years in the past, St. Francis allowed 4 runs within the backside of the seventh to lose the Division I title sport at De La Salle, 7-6.
This time, St. Francis was simply hoping to drive additional innings when the house crew got here to bat within the seventh.
The Lancers received the primary out, however then Cesar Guizar, Wyatt Lane, Julian Garcia and Guth hit consecutive singles to finish the sport.
Yuba Metropolis completed 31-5. St. Francis fell to 22-11.
Landon King received St. Francis began within the first inning with a single. Jack Leeper was then hit by a pitch and Tanner Wall reached on an error to fill the bases.
Gino Cappellazzo hit right into a fielder’s option to make it 1-0 and Henry Dommer adopted with a single to stretch the result in 2-0.
However Yuba Metropolis retired the following two batters and saved St. Francis off the scoreboard the remainder of the best way.
Softball
Division II
No. 2 Salinas 4, No. 4 Liberty 1
The Salinas Excessive softball crew celebrates after successful their CIF NorCal Division II championship softball sport 4-1 in opposition to Liberty Excessive in Salinas, Calif., on Saturday, June 7, 2025. (Doug Duran/Bay Space Information Group)
Salinas Excessive pitcher Abi Jones (53) celebrates the final out, successful their CIF NorCal Division II championship softball sport 4-1 in opposition to Liberty Excessive in Salinas, Calif., on Saturday, June 7, 2025. (Doug Duran/Bay Space Information Group)
Liberty scored 31 runs in two NorCal wins that moved the Lions into the championship sport. The Brentwood faculty might have used a number of of them Saturday.
Salinas’ Abi Jones capped off her highschool profession in spectacular trend, holding North Coast Part Division I champion Liberty to only one unearned run whereas placing out 12 because the Cowboys captured their first regional softball title.
The house crew scored a run within the first and one other within the second to take a 2-0 lead. Liberty (25-5) minimize the margin in half with a run within the customer’s half of the third, however the Cowboys (21-8) answered with one other run within the backside half of the body.
The lead widened to 4-1 when Salinas scored a run within the fifth.
Taylor Jennings and Kelsie Skaggs accounted for Liberty’s hits. Skaggs knocked within the Lions’ solely run, on a single to proper that introduced in Kylee McKinney.
Gigi Rossi led Salinas’ assault with three hits — together with a house run and a double — and scored twice.
Demarie Fernandez and Ava Thompson added two hits apiece for the Cowboys, who survived an eight-inning nail-biter to beat The King’s Academy 1-0 within the semifinals on Thursday.
Liberty reached the ultimate with a 14-3 rout of Central Catholic within the first spherical on Tuesday and a 17-10 win over Vanden on Thursday.
Liberty Excessive's Kaylee Bunch (15) hugs teammate Isabel Mercado (2) after shedding their CIF NorCal Division II championship softball sport 4-1 in opposition to Salinas Excessive in Salinas, Calif., on Saturday, June 7, 2025. (Doug Duran/Bay Space Information Group)
Salinas Excessive's Abi Jones (53) pitches within the second inning of their CIF NorCal Division II championship softball sport in opposition to Liberty Excessive in Salinas, Calif., on Saturday, June 7, 2025. Salinas Excessive went on to win the sport 4-1. (Doug Duran/Bay Space Information Group)
Division IV
No. 1 East Nicolaus 4, No. 3 San Leandro 0
After rolling previous Aptos by eight runs in a semifinal Friday, San Leandro had no such dominance within the closing at top-seeded East Nicolaus.
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The house crew scored three within the first inning, and that was all Stevie Knight would wish to win a regional championship for her aspect.
She held the guests to 1 hit, placing out eight and strolling two. Knight additionally had 4 hits and knocked in a run as East Nicolaus ended the season 24-6.
San Leandro completed 23-9.
