Well, there goes grad night for the Menlo School senior baseball players.
David Trujillo
Menlo had quite the busy Thursday mapped out. In the morning, the Knights’ four seniors walked in the school’s on-campus graduation ceremony. That left the team plenty of time of hop on a bus to Woodland for its CIF Northern California Division IV baseball semifinal at Woodland Christian.
“It’s pretty impressive what those seniors did today,” Knights manager David Trujillo said.
It turned out there weren’t quite enough hours in the day for the Knights, who had their game postponed due to darkness. Menlo currently leads 15-11 in the contest, and will resume play Friday at noon with No. 1-seed Woodland Christian batting in the bottom of the eighth inning.
“We decided that we would rather play it earlier in the afternoon ... so the team is on the way home and then the bus will leave some time in the morning,” Trujillo said.
No. 5 Menlo rallied for four runs in the top of the eighth to take the lead. Junior Renner Barnett drove home the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly. After Jack Freehill was intentionally walked, junior Chuck Wynn delivered a two-run single. Freehill then scored from third on an errant pickoff throw to first.
Freehill was intentionally walked three times on the day.
“Chuck had a ton of opportunities, and he really clutched up,” Trujillo said.
With senior right-hander Ben Salama pitching in the bottom of the inning, he got two quick strikes before the game was postponed.
Salama entered in the bottom of the seventh with a runner on first and one out and the game deadlocked 11-all. Woodland Christian eventually had two on with one out, when freshman center fielder Fletcher Cahill came up with the play of the game. A line-drive single to center forced the lead runner to freeze momentarily to see if it would be caught. When it wasn’t, Cahill came up throwing to get the out at third on a bang-bang play.
Woodland Christian later had runners at second and third when Salama notched the strikeout to send the game into extra innings.
“It was huge,” Trujillo said.
The winner of the game will advance to the CIF Nor Cal Division IV championship game to face No. 3 Santa Clara. In the event of a Menlo win, Santa Clara would host Saturday at 4 p.m.
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