The JV Baseball Dons are enjoying a great season. The team is deep, and has benefited from consistently great pitching and defense, and had some solid offensive performance earlier in the season. More recently, Dons’ bats cooled off some, but they are still finding ways to win ballgames, although admittedly they’ve been relying on good baseball fortunes a bit much…
The Acalanes Freshman baseball team swept their doubleheader versus cross-town rival Miramonte High School, winning game 1 by a score of 8-2 and game 2 by a score of 11-1. In game 1, the offense started out slow as Miramonte quickly mowed down the first 6 Acalanes hitters, 4 by strikeout. All that changed in the top of the 3rd…
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…