SANTA CLARA – It was the moment John Diatte had been waiting for. Mitty had done the unbelievable by stringing together two hits against a Valley Christian team that simply doesn't give up a lot of hits.
And with Waylon Walsh coming to the plate as the tying run,
They might be loud and chirpy. Annoying, some might say. Arrogant even.
But the Riordan Crusaders – a team that has had very little to beat its collective chest about in the last decade or two – are off to a 3-1-1 start.
On Friday, they used every ounce of
Valley Christian rolled another shutout -- the Warriors have allowed just one earned run in four games -- as it advanced to Saturday night's title game of the Mike Hazlett tourney in Santa Clara.
Kelley Crawford held Capuchino to just two base runners -- a second-inning single and a sixth-inning walk -- in leading the unbeaten Padres to a 5-0 victory.
SANTA CLARA – More urgent for Carlmont than Tuesday's 8-2 loss to Wilcox on Tuesday was the shoulder injury sustained by Henry Massey in the top of the third inning while diving back into first base on a pickoff play.
Coach Ryan Hamilton wouldn't speculate, but
Back in the day, The San Francisco Examiner had a sportswriter named Merv Harris, who was considered the godfather of prep sports writing in the Bay Area during the 1970s and '80s. He painstakingly kept stats and records and would write a weekly column where he gave what he
