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Photograph by Jeff Kearns
Homestead's Israel Trujillo slides in safely at second with a stolen base in last week's clash with Lynbrook. But the Mustangs lost the game 7-2 to the Vikings.
No. 13 proves lucky for Shen
Homestead's volleyball team wins 24th straight
By Dick Sparrer
Richard Shen wears No. 13 for the Lynbrook baseball team.
But unlucky 13 was anything but for the senior infielder last week. Shen lashed out five hits in two games to lead the Vikings to back-to-back wins in the El Camino Division of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League.
Shen singled and tripled to help the Vikings to a 7-2 win over Homestead to open the week, and he came back with three hits in a tight 5-4 upset win over first-place Gunn two days later.
The two wins helped the Vikings improve to 4-8 in the division and to 5-9 for the year.
Shen was the hitting star and Brandon Bencomo and Brian Seip shared the pitching duties in the win over Homestead to open the week.
Bencomo and Seip limited Homestead to just five hits in the game. Bencomo picked up the mound win, improving his record to 2-0, and Seip came on to get the save.
Shen had the two hits for the Vikings. Eric Barnes doubled, and Brodie Maag knocked in two runs for Lynbrook.
Gary Mullins had two hits for Homestead in the loss.
The loss to Lynbrook was the first of two league losses for the Mustangs last week. Homestead dropped a 3-0 decision to Mountain View later in the week, despite a strong mound showing by David Attard. The senior right hander tossed a seven-hitter, but his teammates could support him with just a pair of singles.
Homestead, 2-10 in the El Camino Division and 7-10 for the year, opened the Lions Tournament with a 10-7 win over Palo Alto last weekend.
Brad Dougherty doubled and homered to knock in two runs for the Mustangs in the tournament win, and Brandon Schroder doubled and tripled.
Bryan Silverman had two hits to drive in three runs in the win, and Mullins and Attard added two hits apiece. David Dreyfous and Anthony Torres each slapped doubles for the Mustangs.
Bryan Skitt was the winning pitcher for Homestead, pushing his season record to 2-3.
The Mustangs continue tourney play this week. They were to host Gilroy on Monday, and will take on Mitty on April 19, 3:30 p.m., at PAL Stadium.
Cupertino won twice in the De Anza Division last week, beating Fremont 4-2 and Milpitas 12-11. The two wins helped the Pioneers jump to 5-6-1 in division play and to 7-11-1 overall.
Brandon Clark went the distance to toss an eight-hitter in the 4-2 win over Fremont and came back to pick up the save in the win over Milpitas later in the week.
Javier Eredia had two hits for Fremont in the loss to Cupertino. Fremont slipped to 3-7-1 with the loss.
The King's Academy won twice in baseball action last week. The Knights beat Pinewood 20-9 to improve to 4-3 in the Private Schools League, and they knocked off San Francisco Christian 15-1 in a nonleague game to improve to 6-5 for the year.
Mustangs win
The Homestead boys volleyball team continued its winning ways last week with a nonleague victory over Mitty, but it was a win that didn't come easy for the Mustangs.
Homestead won the first two games 15-10, 15-12 but lost the third 15-11. The Mustangs won the fourth game to take the match, but Mitty strung out Homestead before losing 19-17.
Homestead improved to 24-0 for the year with the victory.
In other local volleyball action, Kelen Sorauf drilled 10 kills to lead Fremont to a 15-12, 15-11, 15-8 win over Mountain View, helping the Firebirds improve to 2-3 in the SCVAL and to 10-11 overall, and The King's Academy pounded Valley Christian of Dublin 15-9, 15-10, 12-15, 15-5 to move to 5-4 in the Private Schools League and to 6-10 for the year.
Firebirds fall
Freshman Jason Simon fired a three-over par 38, but the Fremont golf team lost 195-226 to Palo Alto at the Sunnyvale Municipal Golf Course.
Eric Domke finished at 40 with Jason Dreyfus shooting a 47, Hauoli Isa a 49 and Ted Masten a 52.
Simon shot a 42 earlier in the week in a 199-255 loss to Paly at the Palo Alto Municipal Golf Course. Isa finished at 49, Dreyfus 51, Domke 56 and Chris Healy 57.
The Firebirds slipped to 1-11 in the De Anza Division with the two losses.
In other local action, Homestead lost 202-209 to Mountain View to fall to 1-7 in division play.
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