Winfield homers twice, shuts out Scots

Morgan Winfield pitched a two-hit shutout and hit two home runs as the Ravens closed out the season with a big victory.

The junior led off the second with a solo shot and hit a three-run shot in the bottom of the third after Dylan Karmin singled and Logan Mathias was hit by a pitch.

Winfield has six homers, tying him with The King's Academy's Ethan Johnson for the PAL lead.

On the mound, Winfield needed just 74 pitches to complete the shutout. He allowed two hits and struck out three.

Mathias drove in two for the Ravens (15-12).

Carlmont (13-14) finished in a three-way tie for third place in the PAL Bay Division with Sequoia and The King's Academy. With the Bay Division has getting five automatic berths, that likely means the Scots will find their way into the CCS tournament when the bids are announced late Monday afternoon.

W: Winfield. L: Werbinski. 2 hits- Winfield (S). 4 RBI- Winfield (S). 2 RBI- Mathias. HR- Winfield (S) 2. 2B- D.Ostrander (S).

The King's Academy 3, Sacred Heart Prep 1

Thomas Castro struck out nine and allowed just a run on three hits in six innings of work as The King's Academy got a much-needed victory and a sweep of the Gators.

Castro outdueled Devin Saltzgaber, who went four innings and struck out six while giving up just two runs in his final high school start. The lefty will pitch next year at Pomona-Pitzer.

Sacred Heart Prep (9-18) had a 1-0 lead, but the Knights (13-11) tied it with a run in the fourth and took the lead in the fifth when Dominic Myung, who had homered in three straight games before Friday, singled home Cyrus Sid, who had led off the inning with a walk.

Ethan Johnson doubled in the sixth and scored on an AJ Kong single to make it 3-1.

The Knights (13-11) likely wrapped up a CCS tournament berth with the victory, which put them in a three-way tie for third place in the Bay Division.

W: Castro. L: Saltzgaber. S: Kinoshita. 2 hits- Johnson (TKA). 2B- Johnson (TKA), Schmaltzle (SHP), Gee (SHP), Dahab (SHP).

Menlo-Atherton 11, Hillsdale 0

The Bears became the only PAL team to win 20 games this season by scoring seven runs in the first and riding the right arm of Jack Molise.

Molise allowed just one hit in six innings of work. He struck out five and threw only 67 pitches – 45 of them for strikes.

He was just as essential at the plate, hitting his second grand slam of the season to spark Menlo-Atherton's seven-run first inning.

Merrick Lee led off the bottom of the first with a double. Ryder Kelly walked and a Jimmy Zaharias ground out moved both runners into scoring position. Caden Lewis then bunted for a single, but no runners advanced, loading the bases for Molise.

His grand slam off Robby Gilbert gave the Bears a 4-0 lead, but they were just getting started. Masataka Shudo singled, JT Anderson walked and Ronan Cutright scored both runners with a double to make it 6-0.

Lee's second hit of the first inning scored Cutright and made it 7-0.

Lee had three hits, while Zaharias and Molise had two hits and Kelly chipped in with a double and a triple.

Hillsdale (12-13), which finished sixth in the Bay Division, will now have to play the waiting game.

W: Molise. L: Gilbert. 3 hits- Lee (MA). 2 hits- Kelly (MA), Zaharias (MA), Molise (MA). 4 RBI- Molise (MA). 2 RBI- Lee (MA), Cutright (MA). HR- Molise (MA). 3B- Kelly (MA). 2B- Kelly (MA), Zaharias (MA), Cutright (MA), Lee (MA).

Terra Nova 3, Mills 1

Sophomore Jesse Martinez improved to 8-2 with a complete-game victory.

He scattered five hits and three walks, while allowing one run and striking out five for the Tigers (18-6-1), who bounced back from Thursday's shutout loss to the Vikings in a game played at Westmoor High.

Terra Nova scored a run in the first when Luke Ornelas singled and JT Snead was hit by a pitch. Ornelas moved to third when Joey Donati's fly ball to deep centerfield was flagged down by Nick Lafon. Ornelas scored on a Brody Finale single.

Mills (11-11) tied the score in the second on a bases-loaded single by Tyler Yuan. Mills had loaded the bases on walks to Aiden Brown and Nick Lafon and a single by Tino Janke.

The Tigers, who clinched a CCS invitation last week with a second-place finish in the Ocean Division, took the lead for good in the bottom of the third when Donati's infield grounder was booted.

Courtesy runner Wes McDougal stole second, moved to third on a passed ball and scored on Finale's sacrifice fly.

W: Martinez. L: Angelini. 2 hits- Janke (M), Ornelas (TN). 2 RBI- Finale (TN). 3B- James (TN), Ornelas (TN). 2B- Angelini (M).