The Dons Varsity Baseball team won a lopsided affair on Saturday 18-4 in a mercifully shortened 5 inning contest over St. Mary’s of Berkeley to get back into the Win column and improve their record to 9-5.
The Dons pitchers have been inspired of late. After throwing 2 complete game shutouts last week, and losing a 2-0 battle against highly ranked Berkeley High over the break, the Dons pitchers combined to no-hit St. Mary’s. Henry Souza (Soph), Tyson Bates (Jr), and Miller Smith (Jr) combined to no hit the Panthers through 5 innings. Another strong effort from the Acalanes pitching staff, Coached by Andrew Merken (Acalanes 2013), is helping the Dons through a very competitive schedule – winning 6 of the last 7.
The pitchers were not outdone by the relentless Dons offense even while missing a few key starters. The Dons, slugged, stole, bunted, and walked their way to a bruising 18 runs on 13 hits including 17 RBI’s, 8 walks, 3 XBH and some steals. Miles Bergman (Sr), Nico O’Rourke (Jr) , and Tyler Worthington (Jr) led the attack with 3 hits apiece, and Kyle White stayed hot going 1-1, with 2R, 2W, a stolen base and 3 RBIs including a long bomb to right just off the fence. Bergman was 3-5 with 3R and 3 RBI, while O’Rourke was 3-4, with 2R and 1 RBI.
The defense did their part as well including some nice stops at 3rd baseman by Gavin Bender, some nice catches in Center by Andrew Habas and a nifty double play in the 4th to help workout of a jam – 6-4-3 – Dante Montgomery to Miles Bergman to Kyle White, who got a rare start at 1B.
This week D1 powerhouse Pittsburgh travels to Acalanes on Thursday at 4pm and the Dons travel to Mill Valley to take on Tamalpais Saturday at noon.