While the high school baseball and softball teams are jockeying for position atop league and division standings, the local community college teams are in their final week of the regular season with three teams still in the running for conference titles.
The Skyline and College of San Mateo baseball teams both have a shot at clinching a Coast Conference North crown, with Skyline in the driver’s seat. The Trojans are currently tied for first place with Chabot-Hayward with 14-4 records and will have a shot at controlling their own destiny. They’ll host 2-16 San Francisco Tuesday before finishing up the regular season Thursday with a road game at Chabot.
San Mateo, meanwhile, sits a game back at 13-5 and the Bulldogs will get their shot at making a bid for the conference title as they’ll face the two teams above them — CSM hosts Chabot at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and closes with rival Skyline in San Mateo Thursday. A Bulldogs sweep would give them at least a share of the conference crown.
On the softball side of things, San Mateo is vying for the top spot in Northern California after the Bulldogs pulled into a first-place tie with West Valley, both with 11-2 records.
CSM is riding a seven-game winning streak after beating Ohlone-Fremont and Monterey Peninsula last week. The Bulldogs close the regular season by hosting 1-12 Cabrillo Tuesday.
Meanwhile, West Valley ends its regular season against fourth-place San Jose. CSM needs San Jose to pull off the upset because even if the Bulldogs and West Valley finish tied atop the Coast Conference standings, the Vikings would be the higher seed in the regional playoffs by virtue of sweeping the two-game set against San Mateo.
San Jose beat West Valley, 7-6, March 27. The Vikings dropped into the tie with the Bulldogs following a 3-2 loss to third-place Hartnell last Thursday.
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Aragon boys’ tennis coach Dave Owdom said after his team’s 6-1 win in a showdown with Burlingame that he hoped his team took care of business today when the Dons host Woodside.
A win over the Wildcats would give Aragon its second straight Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division crown an automatic berth into the Central Coast Section tournament.
“I just hope we don’t overlook Woodside,” Owdom said last Thursday.
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But as Veraaz Khan was putting the final touches on his marathon, 7-6(5), 6-4 win at No. 2 singles, one of Owdom’s starters informed him that he would not be at the Woodside match.
“You’ll be OK against Woodside,” he said.
Which got a laugh out of me because Owdom’s nightmare may come true. But in the end, an Aragon loss to the Wildcats would be the difference between an outright championship and a co-championship.
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Well, I’ve all but given up trying to handicap (read: guess) the Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division softball race. Every time it seems like a team is ready to take off, it gets slapped back down.
Entering last week, King’s Academy was in the cat bird’s seat — and then the Knights promptly lost two of three games last week, to Woodside and Aragon, to drop into third place. Meanwhile, a surprising Woodside squad enters this week alone in first place with a 5-1 record, but with a showdown with second-place Capuchino (4-2) looming today before taking on San Mateo Thursday, both on the road.
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The South San Francisco Fog youth baseball organization is raising funds to send the U13 teams to the Field of Dreams tournament in Cooperstown, New York this summer.
The Fog is celebrating 25 years this year and are holding an adults-only dinner fundraiser at 6 p.m. May 2 at the South San Francisco Elks Lodge. Tickets are $90 and include dinner, n0-host bar, prizes and a silent auction.
Nathan Mollat is in his 24th year covering high school sports in San Mateo County for the San Mateo Daily Journal. He can be reached by email: nathan@smdailyjournal.com.
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