Trojan tennis team 6-1 in SCL play

Tennis Petaluma’s Trojans won an exciting and important Sonoma County League tennis match last week, defeating Sonoma Valley, 4-3.|

Tennis

Petaluma’s Trojans won an exciting and important Sonoma County League tennis match last week, defeating Sonoma Valley, 4-3. The win was the fourth without a defeat in SCL play for the Trojans, who improved to 6-1 on the season.

Petaluma built its win on a sweep of all three doubles matches.

Hayden Dennis, playing No. 4, was the only singles winner for Petaluma, defeating Sonoma Valley’s Sam Weisinger, 6-2, 6-2.

In doubles play, Petaluma was dominant, sweeping all three matches without losing a set. Winning for Petaluma were the teams of Alex Dodd and Colton Moss, Khalil Tams and Aidan Cannon and Logan Reuter and Griffin Epstein.

Casa Grande was no match for unbeaten North Bay League powerhouse Maria Carrillo in a match played in Santa Rosa, losing, 7-0.

Casa came closest to winning a set in No. 4 singles, where Paul Serafinscu lost to Kyle Lee, 6-1, 6-3, and in No. 3 doubles, where Wally Steazin and Zotus Shu were beaten by Maria Carrillo’s Tommy Sully and Adam Harris Bloom, 6-1, 6-3.

St. Vincent swept singles play to defeat Sonoma Tech, 3-2, in a match played at Lucchesi Park.

Grace Hosbein, Lauren Seale and Jonathan Carlson all won in straight sets for the Mustangs. The St. Vincent doubles teams of Shelby Murphy and Adeline Flanagan and Margaret Coll and Eliza Stirrat lost their matches.

Softball

Casa Grande rallied late to post an impressive 7-2 North Bay League win over Maria Carrillo on the Casa diamond. Casa Grande broke open a 2-2 game with a five-run rally in the last of the sixth inning.

Mo Lynch, Presley Ruoff, Cassidy Cole and Katie Machado each had two hits in an 11-hit Casa attack.

Maria Carrillo rapped seven hits in three innings off Casa Grande pitcher Katie Machado, but Katie Humphreys allowed just one hit in four impressive innings, striking out five and not walking a batter.

Later in the week, Casa Grande lost at Montgomery, 7-4, getting only four hits off Lady Viking pitcher Lily Castro.

Casa Grande rallied late for three runs in the sixth inning, but by then Montgomery already had its seven runs, and was in control.

Sam Dedrickson was pretty much the Casa Grande offense with two hits and three RBIs.

Analy slammed 13 hits to win a Sonoma County League showdown game over Petaluma, 9-3, in a contest played in Sebastopol.

Analy scored three runs in the first inning and built on its advantage the rest of the game.

Petaluma had seven hits off Analy pitcher Carson Rasmussen but could score only in the second inning when it counted its runs.

Rachael Bles and Emma Weiand each had two hits for the T-Girls. Brooke Symons, Maddie King and Chandler Mevis each had a hit.

Petaluma came back on Saturday to defeat Ukiah, 5-2, in a non-league game played in Ukiah. The T-girls, behind the pitching of Mandi O’Keefe, stopped the Lady Wildcats through the first six innings before the host team broke up the shutout with two runs in the seventh.

Indya Smith, Kaleigh Weiand, Mevis, Cam Ayers and Grace Ghirardelli each had two hits in a 13-hit Petaluma assault.

The win improved Petaluma’s overall record to 10-4.

St. Vincent sophomore Alessandra Ditizio was a homer shy of a cycle, hitting a single, double and triple to lead St. Vincent to an 8-2 win over Upper Lake in a North Central League II game in Lake County.

St. Vincent scored its runs in the first three innings and then hung on behind the pitching of freshman Sarah Sarlette, who went the distance, allowing four hits and two walks in her first full varsity game.

Erin Shurtz, Sully Henry, Kate Freeman, Olivia Badaglia, Sarlatte and Julie Sikora all had hits for the Lady Mustangs.

Girls lacrosse

Kelsey Gomez-Fowers scored four goals to lead Casa Grande at a 17-6 win over Alhambra in a game played at Casa Grande.

Megan Mainaris added three goals and Trinity Merwin, Karli Gibbs and Sophia Gardea two each for the Lady Gauchos. Gomez-Fowers, Merwin and Gibbs had assists.

The win improved Casa Grande to 6-1-0 on the season.

Boys golf

Petaluma won its sixth straight Sonoma County League match of the season without a loss, easily besting Analy 220-302 at the Santa Rosa Golf and Country Club.

Enzo Scaccalosi took medalist honors for the Trojans on the par-36 course. Cole Powers shot a 42, Whittaker Ellis a 43, Charlie Winter a 45 and Shannon Scoll a 50.

Earlier in the week, Ellis shot a sizzling 36 at The Links of Bodega Harbour to lead the Trojans to a 218-268 win over Piner. Scaccalosi shot a 42, Winter a 45, Stoll a 45 and Cole Powers a 50.

St. Vincent finished second behind Menlo High School in its own Mustang Invitational at the Marin Country Club on Monday.

St. Vincent’s Max Kleinecke was fourth overall, Justin Peck sixth.

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