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2023 Player Watch: Ryan Silver OL Serra

Serra offensive lineman Ryan Silver (6-foot-4, 300 pounds) was a key part of Serra's 2021 physical offensive line that helped the Padres reach the State Open Division Bowl game. He has good agility for his size, sustains blocks throughout the play and displayed good power on both sides of the line. Silver has offers from San Diego State, Nevada, Fresno State, San Jose State, Colorado State and Army.

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Congrats to Sonoma County High School baseball

Congrats to Bay Area baseball and to Sonoma County in particular. Last year, Cal junior Andrew Vaughn from Maria Carillo HS in Santa Rosa was the 3rd pick in the MLB draft. This year's #1 player will likely be Arizona State's Spencer Torkelson from Casa Grande HS in Petaluma. How cool is it that a county with under a half-million population could achieve that!

Boras Classic Final 4

Mitty: The Monarchs beat Liberty-Bakersfield 10-5 and St. Mary's-Stockton 7-5. Noah Pang went 2-for-4 with two RBI against the Rams.

Cardinal Newman: They beat Sacred Heart Cathedral 5-1 and Mountain View 8-0. The Cardinals have given up 33 runs in 15 games.

Franklin: They shutout Palo Alto 2-0 and Stockdale 3-2. Nolan Stevens threw a complete game shutout against the Vikings.

Woodcreek: They beat Clayton Valley Charter 7-6 and San Ramon Valley 6-2. The Timberwolves have one of the region's best rosters and have won 14 in a row

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The New PAL

As announced by officials of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League and the Peninsula Athletic League, which have merged for football into an expanded PAL in 2022, these are the divisional alignments approved by the coaches and athletic directors:

"A" leagues

De Anza _ Wilcox, Palo Alto, Milpitas, Los Gatos, Homestead, Mountain View.
Bay _ Burlingame, Sacred Heart Prep, Menlo School, Half Moon Bay, Aragon, Menlo-Atherton.

"B" leagues

El Camino _ Sequoia, King's Academy, Gunn, Los Altos, Santa Clara, Cupertino.
Ocean _ San Mateo, Hillsdale, Capuchino, Carlmont, Terra Nova, Jefferson.

"C" league

Lake _ Lynbrook, Monta Vista, Saratoga, El Camino, South San Francisco, Mills, Woodside, Fremont.

Note: As pointed out earlier on this site, the major advantage of merging the SCVAL and the PAL for football is the ability to quarantine the failing programs into one alignment, the Lake, allowing those eight teams to play one another in what should be a schedule that is reasonably competitive and balanced for seven weeks. It also assumes that South San Francisco will have a varsity in 2022. The Warriors dropped their varsity in 2021 due to a lack of available players. South City's new coach, Frank Moro (a former Warrior head coach), has declared that he will be able to field a varsity this year.

Palo Alto coach Nelson Gifford stepped down

Another coach stepping down. Too bad, he was an alum and an on campus coach (He will continue at the school as a special education teacher). Recently removed from AD role and had a four season record of 24-16. Personally I see a great advantage for schools to have on campus coaches. I believe it is a significant positive influence on the kids, school, program, and community to have a coach with a total presence at a school.

Gifford said. “Unfortunately there wasn’t an alignment of values.”.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03...-palo-alto-coach-nelson-gifford-stepped-down/

April 8 Notes

St. Francis-Mountain View (14-2) beat Sacred Heart Cathedral (10-5-1) 9-2 behind a pair of RBI each from Wyatt King and Derek Kile. Tristan Kim struck out 10 batters over six innings. Colin Spear had a home run in the loss. St. Ignatius (9-9) beat Valley Christian (11-4-1) 4-1 as the Wildcats outhit the Warriors 8-2. Josh Pashby threw a complete game with six strikeouts. Serra (9-10) led 3-0 after three innings in posting a 3-1 win over Mitty (10-5). Samuel Kretsch threw a complete game in surrendering just a home run to Matteo Blandino. Bellarmine (12-4-1) beat Riordan (6-10) 1-0 in 11 innings. Carlmont (11-4-1) flexed their offensive prowess in a 14-2 win over Menlo-Atherton (6-10). Carson Vance and Aidan Kurt combined for seven RBI.

Woodcreek (12-1) completed its sweep of River Valley (1-12) with a 14-2 win in five innings. Connor Barth and Noah Madsen had seven total RBI and Austin Nye struck out five batters in two perfect innings. Vanden (15-1) stepped out of league to beat Berkeley (9-5) 7-2. Jason Olsen had a home run and two RBI. Colfax (10-7) got a two game sweep of Bear River (7-7) with a 16-1 win on Friday. Chase Pfeifer had a home run with four RBI and Marcus Maeder picked up the win.

Foothill-Pleasanton (14-1) beat Northgate (6-8) 10-3 to advance to the championship game against Redwood this afternoon. Jack Basseer went 2-for-2 with a home run and four RBI. Landen Rota and Tanner Bradley combined on a three hit shutout in Cardinal Newman’s (12-1) 3-0 win over Carrillo (5-9-1). St. Bernard’s (10-2) is 2-1 at its tournament in Arizona, which concludes today. Their lone local loss is to Arcata (9-1).

April 7 Notes

Whitney (12-3) completed a three game sweep of Folsom (6-8) with a 10-3 win yesterday. Sam Thawley went 3-for-3 with three RBI. Other SFL scores were Oak Ridge (9-6) over Granite Bay 6-7) 10-7 despite five seventh inning runs from the Grizzlies. Andy Uharriet improved to 5-0. Rocklin (7-8) shutout Del Oro (10-5) 10-0. The Thunder won the final two games after dropping the opener. Oakdale (10-6) earned a split against Central Catholic (10-7) with a 2-1 win. Johnny Wylie struck out nine in a complete game effort. This was the Raiders’ first loss in league play.

Leland (5-9) completed the two game sweep of Willow Glen (11-5-1) with a 9-3 victory behind six runs in the seventh inning. The Chargers have won three in a row. Leigh (13-3) bounced back from an extra inning loss to Wilcox to beat Prospect (6-8) 2-1. Two of Leigh’s three losses were by one run. Pacific Grove (4-10) earned a split with Palma (13-3) after Thursday’s 7-2 win. The result leaves San Benito (9-5 overall) alone in first place. Branham (12-4) outlasted Wilcox (13-5) in an 8-7 victory. Branham plays a key two game set against Leigh next week.

Pittsburg (12-4) scored four runs over the last two innings to beat Heritage (9-6) 7-6 for a two game split. Cole Leschak and Gio Fuentes each had two RBI for the Pirates. Granada (11-5) shutout Amador Valley (5-10) 2-0 at the Alhambra Easter Tournament. Joshua Morano threw a two-hitter with nine strikeouts. Marin Catholic (13-3) beat Branson (5-8) 6-1 for its fourth straight win. Alex Saavedra had two doubles and Kody Perry struck out six batters in five innings.
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2022 Nor Cal Spring Showcase at Chabot College in Hayward - May 7

2022 Nor Cal Spring Showcase at Chabot College in Hayward - May 7

The 10th annual Nor Cal Spring Showcase will be held Saturday May 7 at Chabot College in Hayward from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm.

Entry fee is $260 per team. Discounts for three or more teams. Each team will play two games. Open to boys 17u, 16u, 15u teams.

College coaches in attendance, post-event write-ups. All games live streamed by Baller TV.

To register or for more information contact event director Gerry Freitas via email: gerryfreitas@hotmail.com.

April 6 Notes

In the EBAL, #2 De La Salle (10-2) scored four runs in the first inning en route to an 8-5 win over #6 California (12-3). Junior Connor Harrison had a home run and five RBI and Cade Cushing added two RBI. Sam Sitzman struck out six batters in relief to get the win. The Grizzlies got two RBI apiece from Nic Bronzini, who also threw two innings of relief, and Aidan Camberg.

Tyler Yocum went 4-for-4 with five RBI in Mountain View’s (9-6) 11-3 win over Santa Clara (10-7). Chase Yocum threw four innings with seven strikeouts to get his fourth win of the year. Jordan Montez went 2-for-3 with two RBI for the Bruins.

Rio Americano (10-5) beat #19 Vista del Lago (14-3) 20-3 in five innings to split the first two games between the teams. They finish their series on Friday. In Wednesday’s win, JT Wright and Ryan Christiansen each had home runs.

#11 McClatchy (10-0) was back on the field with an 11-0 win over Kennedy-Sacramento (7-4). Gabe Henderson went 3-for-4 with three RBI and struck out five batters in 3.1 innings to get the win.

Elsewhere, #1 Cardinal Newman (11-1) won its 10th in a row with an 8-5 victory over Carrillo (5-8-1). Brady Boyd had three RBI and Mason Lerma threw five shutout innings. Arcata (9-1) won its opener over Fortuna (10-3) 9-6. They led 7-1 after two innings. The two will play a doubleheader on Saturday. Joe Brown had a home run and Aaron Davainis threw a complete game with nine strikeouts in Petaluma’s (6-5) 6-1 win over Sonoma Valley (6-7). Burlingame (8-4) beat Aragon (9-3) 4-2. The Panthers are the lone unbeaten in the PAL-Bay Division. El Capitan (11-4) beat Buhach Colony (13-4) 5-3. Andrew Bakken gave up three runs over 5.1 innings for the Gauchos.
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April 5 Scoreboard

Sacred Heart Cathedral beat Riordan 4-0
Bellarmine beat St. Ignatius 1-0
St. Francis beat Serra 4-2
Valley Christian beat Mitty 5-1
Wilcox beat Leigh 12-11
Clayton Valley Charter beat Monte Vista 10-3
Dougherty Valley beat Granada 6-5
Berkeley beat Acalanes 2-0
Heritage beat Pittsburg 5-2
Marin Catholic beat Branson 7-1
Rocklin beat Del Oro 8-1
Whitney beat Folsom 6-0
St. Mary's beat Tracy 6-5

SF Chronicle Metro Teams and POYs

Congratulations to the.All-Metro team, Regional and All Metro POYs:
  • Peninsula - Aidan Burke Sr. Archbishop Mitty
  • Contra Costa/Tri-Valley - Ryan Beasley Jr. Dougherty Valley and Aidan Mahaney Sr. Campolindo
  • East Bay - Money WIlliams Jr. Oakland (ALL METRO NAME of the YEAR - btw!)
  • North Bay - Dom Girish Sr. Sonoma Valley

  • ALL METRO PLAYER OF THE YEAR - King-Njhsanni Wilhite Jr. Archbishop Riordan
Metro POY -https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/...tro-Player-of-the-Year-Riordan-s-17051416.php

Metro Regional POYs -
All Metro Team - https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/...ronicle-s-2021-22-boys-All-Metro-17051421.php

Metro Coach of the Year and other Coach Mentions - https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/...coaches-had-notable-achievements-17053388.php
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