Westmont's Katherine Bamford is congratulated after crossing home plate with a run in a 7-0 win over Leigh.
Photograph by Jacqueline Ramseyer
Good finish to nice year for Falcons
Westmont girls set for CCS playoffs
By Dick Sparrer
It was a nice season for the Saratoga girls softball season. It wasn't quite good enough for a berth in the Central Coast Section (CCS) playoffs. But you won't catch the Falcons complaining about a 14-9 finish and an 8-4 effort in the El Camino Division of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League.
The Falcons ended the year on a winning note with a thrilling 7-6 extra-inning win over Gunn last week.
Senior Jennifer King doubled in the win to cap an outstanding four-year varsity career for the Falcons. Ilana Sabes and Bonnie Craven were two other four-year varsity players playing their final game for the Falcons.
Randi Oakes was the winning pitcher for Saratoga in the game, tossing a six-hitter. Oakes pushed her pitching record to 8-6.
The Falcons opened up a 3-0 lead after three innings, but Gunn tied it with three in the fourth. The Titans rallied for three more in the sixth to go up 6-3, but the Falcons scored two in the bottom of the sixth and another run in the seventh to tie it and send the game into extra innings.
It remained 6-6 until the last of the ninth, when the Falcons scored the run for the victory.
The Falcons may not be going to the CCS playoffs, but the Westmont Warriors are. Westmont split a pair of games last week to wind up 11-3 in the rugged Mt. Hamilton Division of the Blossom Valley Athletic League (BVAL).
Westmont, 20-9 for the year, is the No. 4 seed in the CCS Division II playoffs, earning the Warriors a first-round bye. Westmont will take on the winners of the Sequoia (11-4)-Monterey (16-11) first-round game in the tournament quarterfinals on May 18, 10 a.m., at the Salinas Sports Complex.
Freshman hurler Breanna Kuhny tossed a four-hit shutout to lead the Westmont softball team to a 7-0 win over Leigh.
Photograph by Jacqueline Ramseyer
Westmont finished the regular season by blanking Leigh 7-0 in a home game last Wednesday. Freshman hurler Breanna Kuhny tossed a four-hit shutout for the win. She's now 12-2 for the season and boasts a perfect 8-0 mark in league play.
Junior Katherine Bamford drilled a triple for Westmont in the win, and junior catcher Michelle Salmiery drove in two runs.
Westmont staked Kuhny to a 1-0 lead with a run in the first, and that's how it remained until the fourth, when the Warriors scored again. Westmont picked up two in the fifth and three in the sixth to coast to the victory.
The runs didn't come so easily--in fact, they didn't come at all--earlier in the week against Oak Grove. The Warriors were blanked 3-0 by the Eagles despite getting a six-hitter from another freshman hurler, Allyson Carrothers.
Bamford tripled in this one, too, and sophomore Michelle Desmet ripped two hits.
Oak Grove scored single runs in the first, third and fifth in the win.
In other local action, Prospect lost twice--5-0 and 15-2 to Mt. Pleasant--to finish up play in the Santa Teresa Division of the BVAL.
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