Homestead’s win drops Los Altos into first-place tie

Baseball

Homestead 3, Los Altos 2

Los Altos doesn’t have Los Gatos’ impressive overall record — 20 wins, three losses — but for weeks has had the better league mark.

Not anymore.

On Wednesday, Homestead scored two runs in the visitor’s half of the first inning and another run in the fifth to edge Los Altos, an outcome that elevated Los Gatos into a first-place tie with the Eagles in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League’s De Anza Division with three games to go.

Los Altos and Los Gatos play a two-game series next week.

Howard Cheng, a sophomore, had two hits and knocked in two runs and Logan Christianson drove in one run to lead Homestead, which improved to 11-8-2, 4-6.

Darrion Wesley had a home run among his two hits and Aaron Baum had two hits, including a double, for Los Altos.

The Eagles fell to 12-10, 9-2.

Los Altos will visit Homestead on Friday before opening a home-and-home series at Los Gatos next Wednesday.

No. 6 Los Gatos 13, Wilcox 1

Donovan Freed homered, doubled and knocked in four runs and Brayden Smith had two doubles and three RBIs to lead Los Gatos to a rout of host Wilcox in an SCVAL De Anza Division game.

Leading 3-1 after two innings, Los Gatos scored five in the third to break the game open.

Ethan Williams pitched five inning for the Wildcats, allowing two hits and an unearned run. He struck out five.

Los Gatos improved to 9-2 in league play. Wilcox is 14-10, 6-5.

No. 12 San Ramon Valley 2, Monte Vista 1

San Ramon Valley scored a run in the top of the third and another in the fourth and then held off Monte Vista’s seventh-inning rally to win this rivalry game in East Bay Athletic League play.

Jake Hensley had two hits, including a homer, and Julian Cambra knocked in a run for SRV, which upped its record to 14-8, 9-3.

Charles Reiland held Monte Vista to a run and six hits in 6 1/3 innings.

Jacob Deguzman had two hits and a seventh-inning RBI for Monte Vista, which fell to 13-10, 4-8.

No. 1 Granada 5, Livermore 0

Four Granada pitchers — Parker Warner, Bryce Berry, A.J. Hattaway, Logan Hahn — combined on a one-hitter and Riley Winchell knocked in three runs to lead the host Matadors past crosstown rival Livermore in EBAL play.

Granada improved to 22-1, 11-1. Livermore dropped 13-10, 5-7.

No. 4 De La Salle 5, California 1

Joe McGee and Jack Harper each had three hits, Hank Tripaldi homered and Graham Schlicht pitched six strong innings to lead De La Salle to a victory at home over California in an EBAL game.

De La Salle is 16-5, 10-2. California slipped to 11-12, 3-9.

Menlo-Atherton 4, The King’s Academy 3

Menlo-Atherton knocked TKA out of first place while keeping its own league title hopes alive with a dramatic victory in a Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division game.

With three league games left, M-A and TKA are one game behind Burlingame in the standings.

On Wednesday, M-A trailed 1-0 after five innings. But the Bears rallied for two runs in the visitor’s half of the sixth and two more in the seventh. TKA scored two in the bottom of the seventh before the final out was recorded.

Ronan Cutright had two hits and two RBIs for M-A, which improved to 13-11, 7-4.

Nate Plata had three hits, including a double, and two RBIs for TKA, which fell to 12-10-1, 7-4.

Softball

No. 16 Bishop O’Dowd 1, No. 6 Alameda 0

Freshman Zoe Bolick pitched a complete game and Riley Veenstra’s fourth-inning RBI accounted for the only run as O’Dowd prevailed at home over Alameda in West Alameda County Conference Foothill Division play.

The victory moved O’Dowd into a first-place tie with Alameda.

The Dragons improved to 16-6, 7-2. Alameda is 15-3, 7-2.

No. 1 St. Francis 13, Valley Christian 3 (6 innings)

Shannon Keighran had three hits, including two doubles, and drove in three runs and Maya Yumiba and Isabella Sandoval each had two hits to lead St. Francis to a victory at home in a West Catholic Athletic League game.

Savannah Hernandez knocked in two runs for Valley Christian.