Mustangs sweep away two strong baseball opponents

The only thing that could stop the St. Vincent High School baseball team last week was the rain.

St. Vincent started the week by grounding Rincon Valley Christian Eagles, 15-2, in a North Central League II game played on the Eagles’ home diamond in Santa Rosa, in a game that was called after five innings. After going scorelss in its first at bats, St. Vincent scored twice in the second, five times in the fourth and ended the game prematurely with three in the fifth.

Liam Galten pitched three scoreless, hitless innings, facing 10 batters and retiring nine. The only Eagle runner came on a walk. Galten struck out five. Jake Pullan finished the last two innings, allowing Rincon Valley its only two runs on two hits and two walks, while striking out one. Nick Vollert and Galten led the Mustangs a the plate with two hits each, with Galten slamming a triple and driving in two runs. He also scored twice. Vollert drove in a run and scored four.

Scoring continues

St. Vincent continued is big scoring ways in a game played at Albert’s Field Friday evening, defeating Marin Academy, 10-3.

The score was a bit deceiving, St. Vincent was clinging to a 3-2 lead going into the last inning when a seven-run explosion turned the game one sided. Marin Academy’s Wildcats out hit the Mustangs, 8-7.

Dominic Pedersen and Bradley Leach managed to keep the Wildcats away from the plate long enough for the Mustangs to finally get their offense untracked. Pedersen pitched four innings, giving up two runs on four hits, but hurt himself with seven walks. He struck out six. Leach pitched the final three innings, allowing one run on four hits, with one walk and seven strikeouts. Alex Gow pitched six strong innings for the Wildcats, only to have things unravel in the seventh. For the game, he gave up just four hits, but walked five while striking out five.

None of the six runs he gave up in the seventh inning were earned. Reliever Jonathan Altman pitched just 2/3 of an inning, allowing four runs on two hits.

Marin Academy opened the doors for the game-winning rally in the seventh with an error. Dom Pedersen followed with a single. followed by walks to Nick Vollert and Trevor Bovaird and a single by Riley Tobin. With two outs, Alex Drombrowski singled to load the bases. David Sammon walked to push home one run and two-more scored on Davis’ single to left.

Galten and Davis each had two of the seven St. Vincent hits, with Davis belting a triple and driving in three runs and scoring two.

St. Vincent was scheduled to complete a busy week with a Saturday morning home game against Stuart Hall of San Francisco, but a spring rain cancelled that event. No make up date has been set. The two wins left St. Vincent with a 7-3 record. The win over Marin Academy was St. Vincent’s 13th straight over the Wildcats.