Friday, May 17, 2019

The Tracy baseball season ended on Friday afternoon in the 2nd round of the CIF-SJS Division 2 baseball playoffs.  Bella Vista got two runs in the 3rd and that was all they needed as the Tracy offense was relatively silent with the exception of Kyle Corona who had 3 hits in the game   Both Dibble and Henderson contributed with singles.  Devin Williams went 4+ innings and was replaced by Blake Ornellas who went the final 1+.   Bella Vista starting pitcher Jake Torres took down 9 bulldogs on strikeouts.

D-2 Brackets

                    1|2|3|4|5|6|7|R|H|E|

Tracy           0|0|0|0}0|0|0|0|5|1|

Bella Vista   0|0|2|0|0|0|X|2|3|0|

"Our pitching was just excellent today," said head Coach Vic Alkire who had just wrapped his 26th season with the Bulldogs.  "The only runs scored by Bella Vista were in the 3rd inning on an errant infield throw with two outs.    Devin was excellent on the mound and Blake did a great job coming in and containing Bella Vista the rest of the way."

"We had one major opportunity to score in the 5th inning when we had one out with the bases loaded.  On consecutive pitches we popped up to the middle infield.   That was our best opportunity of the day and it fizzled."

The highest praise from coach was directed at sophomore catcher Kyle Corona.  "He had three of our five hits , one of which was a double.  He also threw out all three Bella Vista runners who attempted to steal.  I cannot remember one of our catchers who has thrown out more runners in a season.  He is so consistent and has a very quick release.  He has been a star for us offensively and defensively." 

Williams 3AB, 0R, 0H, 0RBI

Ornellas 0AB, 0R, 0H, 0RBI

Corso, M. 3AB, 0R, 0H, 0RBI

Dzoan 2AB, 0R, 0H, 0RBI, BB,  SB

Pereira 2AB, 0R, 0H, 0RBI, BB

Bergmann 3AB, 0R, 0H, 0RBI

Corona 3AB, 0R, 3H, 0RBI, 2B

Martinez 0AB, 0R, 0H, 0RBI

Fife 2AB, 0R, 0H, 0RBI

Giannini 1AB, 0R, 0H, 0RBI

Crivello 2AB, 0R, 0H, 0RBI

Dibble 1AB, 0R, 1H, 0RBI

Henderson 3AB, 0R, 1H, 0RBI

Pitching

Williams (L)  4 1/3 IP, 2R, 3H, 0ER, 1K, 4BB, 2HBP, 75 pitches

Ornellas 1 2/3 IP, 0R, 0H, 0ER, 2K, 1BB, 25 pitches

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Coach Alkire mentioned that the team awards for 2019 consisted of Kyle Mulhern winning the MVP and Kyle Corona winning the highest batting average award at .338 to finish the season.

Captains were Mulhern and Dibble.

Coach Alkire is putting together an article on the season in review and it will be published here this weekend.