The Aragon and Woodside softball teams took turns throwing haymakers and when the dust settled it was Dons that emerged with a 16-10 win in the Bay Division opener for both.
Aragon (1-0 PAL Bay, 7-6 overall) scored in all six of its at-bats, while Woodside (0-1, 6-3), scored in five of seven of trips to the plate.
Both teams came out swinging and the game was tied at 5-all after two innings. Woodside took a 6-5 lead with a run in the top of the third, but Aragon scored twice in the bottom of the inning for a 7-6 advantage.
The Dons then took control of the game with six runs in the bottom of the fourth to lead 13-6.
The Wildcats kept chipping away, however. They got one run back in the fifth — that was answered by Aragon with two more — and three more in he sixth.
Combined, the teams scored 26 runs on 30 hits.
While it would be easy to say the pitching struggled, that’s only partially true. Yes, the Dons were not fooled by a pair of Woodside pitchers, but the Aragon defense did not provide a lot of help backing its two hurlers. While Woodside scored 10 runs, only two were earned.
Aragon shortstop Taylor Workman homered, doubled, drove in four runs, scored three times and went 3 for 4. Natalie Jia doubled twice and drove in two runs, while Chloe Wan, Elizabeth Magness, Destiny Garcia and Olivia Mukherjee all added two RBIs each.
Woodside was led by Mo Overbey, who hit two triples and drove in four runs. Caroline Ong added a pair of RBIs for the Wildcats, as well.
The Bearcats managed to miss Knights’ strikeout artist Katia Nesper and they managed to pull out the win in the PAL Bay Division opener.
San Mateo (1-0 PAL, 5-3 overall) still struggled against King’s pitchers Hannah Woo and Mia Bennette, who held the Bearcats to one run on six hits.
but San San Mateo’s Celia Hernandez was even better. The junior went the distance in posting the shutout, giving up just two singles while striking out 11 and walking two.
And Aliyah Scheller’s RBI single in the bottom of the fifth that drove in Alice Han made Hernandez the winner.
Han had two hits on the day for the Bearcats.
A five-run third inning carried the Bears to the win over the Colts in a non-league game.
M-A (5-1) got three RBIs from Kylie Cox, while Lavietani Taufahema hit a two-run homer. That made a winner of Elise Koo, who allowed one earned run on three three hits in six innings of work.
El Camino (2-4) got RBIs from Jenna Bollentini and Isabella Totah.
A five-run third broke open a close game as the Gators went on to beat the Dragons in a non-league game.
Elly An, a freshman pitcher for Castilleja (2-4 overall) was nearly unhittable. Design Tech (2-2 overall) got on the scoreboard quickly, scoring in the top of the first inning on freshman Kendall Hom’s RBI single that drove in senior Ella Lewis. An allowed only one other hit the rest of the way — another Hom single — as she pitched a complete game with 13 strikeouts.
Castilleja tied the game in the bottom of the first, added two more runs in the second and then broke the game open with the five-run third. The Gators scored 11 runs on 11 hits.
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