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The Amador Valley baseball team swept the two-game series with rival Foothill last week to finish the regular season on top of the Valley Division of the East Bay Athletic League.
The first game on May 4 saw the Dons come away with the 3-0 win in a showdown that took only 90 minutes.
Matthew Foley went the distance on the mound for the Dons, striking out seven and allowing only three hits. Tyler Gebb pitched six innings for Foothill, striking out 10 and allowing three hits.
The Dons got things going in the second, with a single from Johnny Sheppard and a two-run homer from Braden Whitworth. Amador added the final run in the sixth.
Riley Borges notched the third hit for the Dons, with Brendan Comerford, Nate Novitske and Landon Comerford getting the three Foothill hits.
In the second game of the series, a pair of Division I pitchers matched up in a 6-5 Amador win.
Loyola Marymount commit Jackson Flora for Foothill and Cal commit Oliver de la Torre for Amador toed the rubber.
Foothill struck first, scoring three times in the fourth, but Amador came back in the fifth scoring two, then added one in the sixth to tie the game 3-3.
Charlie Stearns’ one-out single put the Falcons back in front 4-3, but Amador tied the game in the seventh off a Jason Alonso RBI double to tie the game 4-4.
Gage Talbot followed with a bases-loaded, two-out walk to put the Dons in front 5-4. Foothill wasn’t done when Novitske tied the game with a sac fly.
In the top of the eighth, Foley singled, followed by a walk by Ross Kobayashi. Evan Berry then delivered an RBI single to put the Dons ahead for the second time 6-5.
Amador volleyball
The Dons entered the North Coast Section playoffs as the No. 3 and following a first-round bye, knocked off Deer Valley to advance to the NCS semifinals.
In a balanced attack, the Dons were led by Nate Clinton (8 kills, 6 service points), Nick Nayak (7 kills), Luke Melvin (7 kills) with Bryce Nohava (17 assists) and Colin Bowers (14 assists, 8 service points).
The Dons front-line was led by Spencer Thiel (3 blocks) and Aiden Husejnovic (2 blocks). Parker Brookhart led the defense with 12 digs.
Amador swimming
The Dons took sixth in the girls’ competition and the boys finished 10th in the NCS Swimming Championships the weekend of May 5-6.
Leading the highlights for the Dons was freshman Rylee Hutchinson.
Hutchinson was third in the 200 freestyle (advancing to state), where she will also compete in the 500 free. Another freshman — Lillyana Caples — was sixth in the 500 free and will also compete at state.
Amador placed three girls in the 200 individual medley consolation finals. Lilli Chau (12th), Florence Lin (14th) and Lillyana Caples (15th) were the three.
Amador’s 400 freestyle relay made up of Lin, Lilli Chau, Lillyana Caples and Hutchinson finished sixth.
The 200 medley relay team Chau, Lin, Ling and Hutchinson finished ninth.
The 200 freestyle relay team of Joyce Huang, Sydney Goldstein, Lillyana Caples and Nicole Xu finished 11th.
On the boys’ side senior Hayden Tupper was third in the 200 free to advance to state. Tupper was also sixth in the 100 free.
Devyn Caples was second in the 200 IM with a time of 1:49.89. Devyn Caples also was fifth in the 500 freestyle to advance to state.
The 400 freestyle relay won the consolation final with the team of Tupper, Andrew Lillie, Devyn Caples and freshman Oryan Liu.
The 200 medley team of Tupper, Andrew Xiao, Devyn Caples and Liu was 15th.
The week before in the EBAL meet, Amador had the following highlights:
JV girls: Freshman Susan Swyers was sixth in both the 50 and 100 freestyle races.
JV boys: Sophomore Simon Valentine was fifth in the 50 free and fourth in the 100 free.
Varsity girls: Hutchinson was third in the 200 free in 1.53.48, which is a California State Meet consideration time.
Varsity boys: Devyn Caples was second in the 200 IM with a 1:51.88 and first in the 500 free (Amador’s only swim meet win) in 4:29.40.
Tupper had a great meet, getting third in the 200 with a 1:41.52 and tied for second in the 100 with 46.37. The 200 free relay finished fourth with the team of Evan Grell, Jackson Morgenstern, Griffin Shea and Lillie.
Ben Lentz won the 1-meter diving competition.
Editor’s note: Dennis Miller is a contributing sports writer for the Pleasanton Weekly. To contact him about his Pleasanton Preps column, email acesmag@aol.com.
Editor’s note: Dennis Miller is a contributing sports writer for the Pleasanton Weekly. To contact him about his Pleasanton Preps column, email acesmag@aol.com.
