The Dons Varsity Baseball team has been infected with the Complete-Game-Bug. Unlike most viruses, this is one you want to catch. Prior to last Tuesday, Dons pitchers have only gone the distance once in the past 5 years (Benjy Braunstein (sr) did last year). On Wednesday, Benjy threw the Dons’ 3rd complete game in their last 4 games, and his…
“Consistency is a mark of a champion”, as the old saying goes. The JV Dons have been demonstrating consistent results for many games now, lately employing the same basic script: start slow, scratch out some runs, pitch well, play solid defense, be patient at the plate, and the runs will come sooner or later. On the Wednesday afternoon at Las…
Before Tuesday, it had been several years since an Acalanes Varsity pitcher threw a complete game shutout. On Saturday, Ethan Rowland (sr) became the second Don of the week to do so. Before the game started, the team learned that planned reliever Dante Montgomery (sr) had injured a finger on his throwing hand and wouldn’t be able to pitch, so…
The Acalanes Freshman baseball team split their doubleheader versus Las Lomas High School, winning game 1 by a score of 13-6 and losing game 2 by a score of 9-7. In game 1, the team continued the momentum from the sweep last weekend against Las Lomas, recording a season high 17 hits. On offense, Cruz Lopez set the tone early, hitting a leadoff triple to begin the game. The hit parade kept coming as Cruz, Ben Pecci, David Gonzales, David Roux, Austin Wampler,…
Still unbeaten in 2022 and having just shut out Northgate on the road, the JV Dons returned home to face the formidable Monte Vista Mustangs on a pleasantly warm Saturday. Using the same proven recipe of stellar pitching, suffocating defense, and pouring it on against relievers late, Dons got almost the same result, a rock solid shutout win. James Stadt…
There was a good turn-out, on a beautiful afternoon, at Souza field on Tuesday. Several of last year’s Varsity seniors were on hand and even Principal Shawn came to check out the streaking Dons squad. Having been blanked in the first game of the series, the Northgate Broncos revealed they were going to play aggressively right from the start. Their aggressive play paid off as they went up 2-0 in the 3rd inning. However, with two runners on…
After a frustrating 4-4 tie against Northgate Broncos at home, the JV Dons were looking to re-establish themselves in the return leg of the series at Northgate. The redemption proved to be elusive for most of the game, however. The game started off as a tense pitchers’ duel. The Dons are used to scoring early and often this season, but…
In a match-up between the two undefeated DFAL teams, the Dons travelled to Northgate on Tuesday to take on the Broncos. As it turned out, heads-up baserunning and brilliant pitching ruled the day. For the 3rd game in a row, Miles Bergman’s (sr) lead-off hit led to the 1st run of the game. Bergman started the 3rd inning with a…
Baseball is not a sport known for an abundance of tie games, and yet the JV baseball Dons got a second tie of the season on Tuesday, when the Northgate Broncos came across town for the first leg of the Home/Away two-game series. The game started late, due to a last-second bus cancellation, and that proved to be material in…
The Acalanes Freshman baseball team couldn’t ride the momentum of their home sweep of Las Lomas over the weekend into their game at Monte Vista on Monday, falling by a final score of 8-2 in a game that lacked suspense. Acalanes got on the board first. After being hit by a pitch, Cole Gwaltney stole second and was driven in with a RBI single to right field by David Roux. Sam Bishop got the start on the mound.…
