Baseball:
South Hills is off to a great start to Hacienda League play.
On Monday, the Huskies pounded out a 10-1 victory at Los Altos.
They out-hit the Conquerors, 13-1, and Gabriel Guerrero and Nicholas Carrillo combined to surrender one run on one hit.
Fast forward to Tuesday, and it was Christian Santoyo and Marc Morales who shut the door on the Conquerors in a 1-0 victory at SHHS.
Santoyo went five scoreless innings to earn the win, and he allowed just a pair of singles.
Santoyo issued one walk and registered three strikeouts.
Of his 61 pitches, 40 were strikes.
Morales provided two scoreless and hitless innings to earn the save.
Morales walked one and got four of his six outs via strikeout.
Luke Rodriguez and Joel Venegas had one single apiece for LAHS.
Jacob Vargas went all six for Los Altos, and he was charged with one run on four hits.
He walked two and fanned five South Hills batters.
Vargas threw 50 strikes in 87 pitches.
With one out in the bottom of the third inning, Aiden Mirabal singled and he advanced to third on a single by Hudson Hempel.
Gabriel Guerrero dropped a bunt that allowed Mirabal to score what turned out to be the game winning run.
Carson Baker and Victor Merlos also singled in the win.
Up next: The Huskies host the Conquerors today (Wednesday) at 3:30.
Quotable:
South Hills coach, Darren Murphy: “This is the first year playing three times in a week and it is going to create some challenges. Playing back to back on Monday and Tuesday is unusual with no practice in between. Our pitching was outstanding again tonight, but we didn’t hit like we did on Monday. You still have to find different ways to win, and we did different things to score a run and end up being enough. It’s definitely nice to be 2–0 in league, but we have a big one on Thursday and Kevin Smith will have Los Altos ready to try to take one from us. As for Christian, I told the boys after that I was most excited about how Christian pitched because this is the best he’s looked in a while, and I feel like he’s returning to his old form.”
South Hills pitcher, Christian Santoyo: “Los Altos is a very good and competitive team, but we just played South Hills baseball. Our pitching staff has always been strong, and I’m proud to be part of this program. I was throwing a lot of strikes and getting ahead in my counts. It was a big win for me, because in my last couple of starts, I got behind in some of the counts. I mixed up my pitches well and hit my spots while attacking my hitters. Marc (Morales) is really competitive. He comes enters games in big moments and shines. He’s one of the guys I love coming right after me. We’re very confident and happy to start league 2-0, but we’re not taking anybody lightly.”
Box Score:
LA: 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-(0)
SH: 0-0-1-0-0-0-X-(1)
Win: Christian Santoyo
Loss: Jacob Vargas
Save: Marc Morales
Records: Los Altos (6-3-1, 0-2); South Hills (9-1, 2-0)
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