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The Spartans began the school year in mourning when Ryan Abele, a 2016 graduate and player on the North Coast Section Division 1 championship squad, died after falling down stairs at his University of Nevada fraternity house.
The Oregon-bound right-hander, an 11-game winner, took a no decision after allowing two earned runs over six innings.
In Division 3, Ryan McLaughlin went the distance, struck out seven and hit a two-run double as the third-seeded Pirates (25-5) denied the top-seeded Matadors’ bid for a perfect season by claiming their fourth NCS title.
In Division 4, 13th-seeded St. Patrick-St.Vincent-Vallejo was unable to complete its Cinderella run as No. 3 St. Joseph Notre Dame-Alameda scored two runs in the first inning on Hudson Hennigh’s single and never trailed en route to a 4-1 victory at Diablo Valley College in Concord. …
In the Division 2 championship game at Petaluma High, third-seeded Arroyo-San Lorenzo (22-6-1) battled back from an early 2-0 deficit to top-seeded Casa Grande-Petaluma (24-5) and claim its first title with a 6-3 victory. …
In Division 1, freshman pitcher Nicole May worked around a two-run, first-inning home run and picked up three runs of support from her freshman battery mate, Courtney Beaudin, as the Falcons won their fifth NCS title and first since 2007.
The Falcons tied the game in the bottom of the first by taking advantage of a throwing error, then getting a run-scoring single by Beaudin.
The freshman catcher put her team up for good in the third inning with a two-out, two-run home run to left center.
James Logan (23-4) reached the championship game by beating No. 1 seed Amador Valley-Pleasanton in the quarterfinals and topping defending champion Freedom-Oakley in the semifinals.The Falcons pushed the lead to 6-2 in the fifth inning with a two-run single from junior Lauren Hermes.
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The Oregon-bound right-hander, an 11-game winner, took a no decision after allowing two earned runs over six innings.
In Division 3, Ryan McLaughlin went the distance, struck out seven and hit a two-run double as the third-seeded Pirates (25-5) denied the top-seeded Matadors’ bid for a perfect season by claiming their fourth NCS title.
In Division 4, 13th-seeded St. Patrick-St.Vincent-Vallejo was unable to complete its Cinderella run as No. 3 St. Joseph Notre Dame-Alameda scored two runs in the first inning on Hudson Hennigh’s single and never trailed en route to a 4-1 victory at Diablo Valley College in Concord. …
In the Division 2 championship game at Petaluma High, third-seeded Arroyo-San Lorenzo (22-6-1) battled back from an early 2-0 deficit to top-seeded Casa Grande-Petaluma (24-5) and claim its first title with a 6-3 victory. …
In Division 1, freshman pitcher Nicole May worked around a two-run, first-inning home run and picked up three runs of support from her freshman battery mate, Courtney Beaudin, as the Falcons won their fifth NCS title and first since 2007.
The Falcons tied the game in the bottom of the first by taking advantage of a throwing error, then getting a run-scoring single by Beaudin.
The freshman catcher put her team up for good in the third inning with a two-out, two-run home run to left center.
James Logan (23-4) reached the championship game by beating No. 1 seed Amador Valley-Pleasanton in the quarterfinals and topping defending champion Freedom-Oakley in the semifinals.The Falcons pushed the lead to 6-2 in the fifth inning with a two-run single from junior Lauren Hermes.
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