The Sobrato baseball team capped a 2-2 finish at the Salinas Easter Tournament by beating Santa Cruz 6-4 in eight innings Thursday at Hartnell College.
Casey Conforti went 3 for 4 with a double and two RBIs, Andrew Bueno singled twice and drove in two runs, and Conor Havstad went 2 for 3 and stole two bases, as the Bulldogs (6-12, 4-8) won for the third time in five games. Havstad went 4 for 8 in the tournament.
Sophomore pitchers Alejandro Torres and Nick Giordano limited the Cardinals to six hits. Giordano got the win in relief with four strikeouts, two walks and one earned run on two hits in three innings. He also drove in a run. Torres struck out three.
Offensively, the Bulldogs were well-rounded at the annual tournament, where they consistently have had success. They lost their first two games to Robert Louis Stevenson on April 7 and to host Salinas on April 9 but rebounded with a 4-1 victory over King City on Wednesday.
Sobrato junior Tanner DiSibio went the distance for the second straight start, striking out six and allowing three hits and three walks.
Eric Guill-Perez had two hits and an RBI, and Erick Zepeda, Westyn Herscovitch and Tommy Naranjo singled and drove in runs to lead the Bulldogs.
Sobrato ran into trouble against a Salinas team that is a game out of first in the Tri-County Athletic League. The Bulldogs outhit the Cowboys 7-6, including a 2-for-4 effort by Torres, but could not keep up after Salinas put across seven runs in the third on the way to winning 9-3.
Blake Porzio doubled and plated a run, and Guill-Perez provided strong relief work, striking out three and allowed one unearned run on two hits in 3 2/3 innings, for Sobrato.
The fourth-place Bulldogs continue Mount Hamilton Division play with a home-and-home series against Santa Teresa this week. The first game is at 4 p.n. Wednesday in San Jose, and the second is scheduled for the same time Friday at Sobrato High School.
