The state of high school baseball in Morgan Hill is bleak
entering the second half of the season
MORGAN HILL — The state of high school baseball in Morgan Hill is bleak entering the second half of the season.
Monday the local teams moved to a combined 3-12 since March 10 — when they last played each other — as the Bulldogs dropped a sixth straight game by 8-3 score at Santa Teresa, while the Acorns lost 8-5 at Westmont.
And with that, Sobrato (4-8, 3-8) and Live Oak (5-9, 2-8) occupy the bottom two spots in the Mount Hamilton Division with a month left in the regular season.
Santa Teresa 8, SHS 3
Tim Giles batted two for three, and Aaron Wallace, Eric Guill-Perez, Jerry Jacob and Tyler Lerma singled for the Bulldogs, who were coming off a somewhat promising 5-4 loss in eight innings Saturday to first place Willow Glen.
Sobrato starter Tanner Di Sibio (2-2) struck out six in four innings and surrendered seven runs on 10 hits.
Against Willow Glen, the Bulldogs led 2-0 in the third and tied it 4-4 with the seventh inning, with Westyn Herscovitch driving home three runs in a four-for-four effort, and Casey Conforti adding an RBI and a single.
Wallace pitched six innings, striking out one and allowing four runs in 10 hits.
Westmont 8, LOHS 5
After losing 6-1 at home to Westmont on Thursday, the Acorns were swept in their two-game series Monday despite a two-for-two effort and a pair of runs by Jakob Conlan and a pair of singles by sophomore John Forestieri.
Live Oak committed four errors but was tied, 4-4, with the Warriors through 3 1/2 innings; Westmont answered with two runs in the fourth.
Conlan (2-3) went a full six innings with four strikeouts, five walks and five earned runs in seven hits.
Thursday the Acorns mustered seven hits, including two by Nick Pusateri and Dominic Bejarano plus a double by Conlan, but did little else to help starter Cody Van Aken (0-2), who struck out seven and was saddled with five runs — three unearned — on eight hits in five innings.
