MICRO DIVISION Jane Hammond Events Spotted Snakes vs. Moneyballer Red Rubys (split squad) In an exciting play, Gwen McNally of the Spotted Snakes fielded a ball at shortstop and tagged out Moneyballers' Allison Marten at third. Allison retaliated with a strong double and RBI. Both Quinn Edlin and Allison Hersh of the Moneyballers made nice fielding plays for outs at second. Lefty Madeline Shean
of the Spotted Snakes came to the rescue when she knocked a hit through
the pitcher's knees and landed a double, bringing in two runs. With
the bases loaded, Keira Mason smacked a solid base hit that drove home a run. Wrapping up the game and the season, Daisy Paige of the Spotted Snakes hit a line drive down the third base line for two RBIs, and was overheard saying "That was awesome!" Jane Hammond Events Spotted Snakes vs. The Andronico's Flying Raccoons (split squad) Flying Racoons' Jillian Munyon made a nice play tagging out a player out at home, Georgia Tomasik made an impressive stop of a fly ball, tand later hit her own fly ball for a run. Skye Frank, Lucy Thompson and Blaze Goldstein all scored runs while advancing others around the bases! The Moneyballer Red Rubies vs. The Andronico's Flying Raccoons (split squad) The Moneyballer Red Rubies displayed an impressive offense. Zo Pancost and Solia Valentine
led the charge with two fliy balls, but all four players made solid
contact and neded to use the tee in only one of twelve at-bats.. Zo
also was very busy in the field, recording an unassisted put-out and
just missing two more. Raina Sparks contributed some daring baserunning. The Flying Racoons batting was out of this world! Sidney Harris, Esme Segall, Jazmin Terry, Delilah Whitaker, and Jayna Frank all hit grounders, getting runs and advancing their teammates. Roxanna Watts-Zaga did some fine fielding, scooping up several ground balls. YOUNGER DIVISION Autumn Press Whippersnappers 14, Berkeley Orthodontics Might Molars 14
The Snappers jumped to a seven run lead in the first inning, powered by hits from Hanna Lane-Goldstein, Silvana Montoya, Gretta Kirkby and Georgia Thompsen. Up next, the Molars chewed through the batting order knocking in five runs on hitting by Zadie Jivan, Carly Wright and Ellie Dischinger. Good defense by pitcher Cammie Grant and catcher Tara Steckler prevented more runs. Jackie Beatty helped the Snappers score five more, but the Molars' Sara Wizig at shortstop and Taylor Kempf made two force outs at third. The Molars followed with solid hitting by Eliana Rosen-Bloom, Sonya Love, Avery Rasband, Melina Fike, and Amari Coffey. Snappers second baseman Georgia and pitcher Anna Reed each connected with Silvana at first base for outs. The Snappers’ Annie Davenport, Uma Navarro and Gemma Fa-Kaji showed
off fast running with infield singles, and Anna blasted a single to
left. For the Molars, Carly made two single-handed outs at first, and
Ellie belted a double into a cavity between left and center. MIDDLE DIVISION On The Beam Orange Crush 2, Robinson McNally Dynamite 3
Orange Crush player Lucy Rosenthal made three nice plays at shortstop, including catching a hard line drive in the first to save at least one run. Graham Griffin, Avery Evans and Cecilia Rubens each had two hits and RBIs, while Graham also struck out three batters in two innings. Alison Radkey made
nice plays at first base and singled to start a rally in the last
inning, but it was not enough to catch the Dynamite. Dynamite
pitchers, Quinn Lewis, Miya Keilin, Maite Ibanez de Garayo, and Tatiana Jellinek all made some very strong throws. Batting standouts were Molly Sazer-Hopf, Quinn, Miya and Maite. Isabel Lavrov was especially effective in the outfield with many strong catches, as was Rachel Cohen. A great game was played by all. Congratulations players! North Berkeley Investments Grass Stains 10, Robinson McNally Dynamite 6 In the first inning, Grass Stains' Sofia Campos-Seligman and Zoey
Horowitz singled, and Jasmine Assia had a strong at-bat. In the bottom of the inning Nina Moore scooped up two grounders to hold runners from scoring. In the second, Griffin Campbell left the game not feeling well, but cheered on her teammates from the dugout. Bonnie Coulman held a runner at second with a quick throw from center field. In the third, Assia singled to move a runner to third and Sofia, Grace Rusin, and Coulman had RBI singles. In the top of the fifth Kaili Meier doubled in two runs and whipped a quick throw to Sofia at first to end the game. For tha Dynamite Miya Keilin hit a triple in the first inning and ran home on Maite Ibanez DeGarayo's hit. Annie Stonebarger also got a hit and scored. Other Dynamite hitting standouts included Claire Mcnally, Quinn Lewis, and Natalie Wright, who hit a double.
Berkeley Children's Dentistry Purple Polka Dotted Piranhas 2, Albany Physical Therapy Jackrabbits 2 After the Piranhas' defense, led by pitcher Lily Weiner-Mock, held the Jackrabbits scoreless, the Piranhas jumped ahead in the first when Hana Minsky smashed a single to knock home Alexis Ballman. This slim lead held up through the middle innings as the Piranhas' Rebecca Miller and Julia Greensfelder stifled Jackrabbits' rallies with sparkling defensive plays. Lila Simpson scored
another run for the Piranhas in the 3rd inning after singling and
stealing third base. Undeterred, the Jackrabbits scored twice in their
last at bat while their strong pitching shut down the Piranhas, who
nonetheless eked out a 2 to 2 win (just kidding!!). OLDER DIVISION The first annual ABGSL Older Division Tournament final game began with strong pitching and defense. Sydney Hersh struck out a batter, Anna Cheyette caught an infield fly for the second out, and fielded a grounder to put out the third. Aftershock's Lena Mayer struck out Zonta's first batter, but followed with some walks, until Hannah Herman
got an RBI with a single before Lena struck out two more batters to end
the inning. Facing Hersh again, in the top of the second, Colleen Hamilton-Lecky walked, stole second and third, and came home on an RBI hit by Alejandra Zeiger. Christeen Lewis followed with another hit. In the bottom of the second, Lena walked the first two batters, struck out the third batter, but Julia Shebek
hit a grounder for an RBI single. Lena finished her season's pitching
on a high note, by striking out the next two batters to end the
inning. Aftershoc's Hannah Schoenberger walked, was advanced byCatey Hoehn's walk, and aggressively stole home on a close call on Hannah Feiner's RBI single. Lena knocked in two with her slam double to center field, followed immediately with a strong single to center by Megan Foley. Colleen got a hit for another RBI, Alejandra doubled, before Christeen hit a beauty that was caught by Sierra Lee. in the bottom of the final inning Coco Martinelli walked, stole two bases, and scored after Julia, Kennedy Grant,
and Sierra all walked. With the tying run at first, Sydney hits a
huge fly ball that brought in the other runners to tie the game, and
then scored the winning run on Hannah's out to first.
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