Avery Motroni and Lily Thomas, Capuchino softball. The Lady Mustangs mustered just two hits against Santa Clara University commit Ellison Schroeder in a 10-0 loss to Oak Ridge-El Dorado Hills in the opening round of the CIF Northern California Division I tournament, with Motroni and Thomas recording a single apiece. It closed out a banner Cap career for the Arizona State commit Motroni, who finishes her senior season with a career-high .511 batting average, while hitting .463 through four varsity seasons. For Thomas, a sophomore, the hit was critical as it raised her season average from .297 to a career-high .307.
Jack Freehill, Menlo baseball. The junior shortstop showed in the Nor Cal playoffs why he was co-Player of the Year in the PAL’s Ocean Division. In three Nor Cal games, Freehill, the Knights’ leadoff hitter, was a combined 4 for 9 with four runs scored, two RBIs and two stolen bases. In a 15-11 semifinal win over Woodland Christian, Freehill reached base in all six of his plate appearances — he had a pair of hits and walked four times.
Hannah Walker, Woodside softball. While things did not go the senior right-hander’s way in the opening round of the CIF Northern California Division IV tourney, it did nothing to upset her ironman performance in 2025. Woodside fell 7-1 to East Nicolaus, with Walker surrendering seven runs (four earned). Still, she went the distance to earn her seventh consecutive complete game, and finishes the year with an astounding 158 2/3 innings pitched.
Benjamin Bouie, Crystal boys’ track and field. The recently graduated senior had one last hurrah for his high school career by running , last Thursday in the HOKA Festival of Miles in St. Louis. Running in the mile in the Elite division, Bouie posted a personal record of 4:04.71, setting two Central Coast Section records in one go. The one-mile time shatters the previous mark of 4:06.86 set by Palo Alto’s Grant Morgenfeld in 2024. It also breaks the 1,600 record with a calibrated time of 4:03.29, topping Morgenfeld’s mark of 4:05.46.
Maya Yumiba, St. Francis softball. The San Carlos native used the opening round of the CIF Northern California Division I tournament to record a new career-high 11-game hitting streak. The left-handed hitting senior went 2 for 3 with an RBI in the Lancers’ 3-2 win over Rocklin. Yumiba previously recorded a 10-game hitting streak spanning from the final game of 2024 to hitting safely in her first nine games this season. With St. Francis being eliminated in the Nor Cal semifinals with a 6-5 loss to Del Oro-Loomis, Yumiba, a Army West Point commit, finishes her senior season with a .439 while pacing the West Catholic Athletic League with 45 runs scored.
Davis Minton and Nate Hui, Serra baseball. Each of the five pitchers Serra used in the CIF Northern California Division I tournament enjoyed shining moments, but none more than Minton and Hui. While Minton was the last man standing, taking the loss in relief in Saturday’s heartbreaking 5-4 defeat at De La Salle-Concord, it doesn’t diminish the senior right-hander’s brilliant relief outing in Tuesday’s Nor Cal opener. With the game going 12 innings, Minton shoved for five shutout frames of relief to earn the win in the 2-1 victory over College Park-Pleasant Hill. The outing forced the Padres to reshuffle their starting rotation, and turned to Hui, the team’s closer, to take the ball in Thursday’s semifinal round against Los Gatos. After 16 previous outings, all in relief, the junior right-hander fired a complete-game shutout in Serra’s 3-0 victory.
G Brum and Taylor O’Mahony, Hillsdale softball. A freshman third baseman and junior left fielder, respectively, the pair both came up with game-winning, walk-off hits on the Knights’ way to the Nor Cal Division III championship. In an eight-inning, 3-2 win over Liberty-Madera in the semifinals, Brum stroked a bases-loaded single up the middle to drive in Mia DeMartini with the game-winning run. In Saturday’s 1-0 win over Cardinal Newman in the championship game, O’Mahony smacked a single off the glove of the pitcher in the bottom of the seventh, to drive in DeMartini, again, with the game-winning run.
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