Orrantia stars for Armijo in baseball win over Vacaville

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FAIRFIELD — Brayan in the first and fourth. Wood fell to 2-6 overall and 2-4 in the MEL. Individual statistics for the Wildcats were not made available. Wood won the series opener Monday 6-2 before Vanden came back with a 4-0 win Thursday. On Thursday, Alex Maushart fired a two-hitter over six innings with 12 strikeouts for Vanden.

Orrantia did a little bit of everything for the Armijo High School baseball team in a 7-3 win over visiting Vacaville Friday. Orrantia went 2-for-3 with a double and three RBIs at the plate. He also pitched 4 2/3 innings for the win and had five strikeouts. Armijo improved to 4-6 overall and evened out its Monticello Empire League record at 3-3.

Chase Lewis was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs for the Royals. Joey Bobshoski singled and drove in a run. Caden Magno also singled. Luis Urias pitched 2 1/3 innings in relief of Orrantia and had four strikeouts.

Bennie Dyer was 2-for-4 with a double for Vacaville. Nathan Schnell also doubled. Vacaville fell to 5-7 overall and 3-3 in the MEL.

Tyler Chalk pitched 2 2/3 innings for Vacaville. Finn Chapman worked 2 1/3 innings with five strikeouts. Jacob Van Pelt also pitched an inning. The Royals bounced back big-time after losing to the Bulldogs 10-0 on Monday and 13-0 Thursday.

In Thursday’s game at Vacaville, Schnell and Bennie Dyer had four RBIs apiece as Vacaville rolled to the 13-0 win in five innings. Schnell was 3-for-3 at the plate with two doubles. Dyer was 2-for-2 with a triple. Luke Johnson also had a double.

The Vikings scored all four of their runs in the fifth inning. Dalen Shipp hit a home run and drove in three runs. Buckley doubled and had an RBI. Hammerschmidt was also 3-for-3. Morse closed for Maushart and pitched one inning with no hits, no earned runs, no walks and two strikeouts.

The Wildcats won the series opener Monday 6-2. Will C. Wood made no individual statistics available for Thursday’s game. Rodriguez pitching

stymies Fairfield

FAIRFIELD — Rodriguez High School pitchers kept Fairfield off the scoreboard for the final four innings as the Mustangs’ baseball team defeated the visiting Falcons 4-2 Friday. Fairfield grabbed a 2-1 lead after three innings. But Rodriguez scored three more in the fourth and fifth to take the final lead. Rodriguez improved to 7-4 overall and 4-2 in the Monticello Empire League.

27-year-old right-hander

Clarke Schmidt.

And by the end of the fourth inning, they had already turned to their bullpen.

After working the count full to lead off the fourth, Pederson put his best golf swing on a sweeping slider from Schmidt and sent it sailing 404 feet into the right-center field seats. The solo shot represented the Giants’ first run and Pederson’s first hit of the season. In fact, it was the first ball Pederson had put in play, and he had to go down to get it. Well below the strike zone, barely a foot above the ground, according to Statcast, it was the seventh-lowest pitch a Giant has homered on since data became available in 2015 (h/t Sarah Langs).

Three batters later, Crawford paused for a

Nick Vierra pitched a four-hitter over four innings for the Bulldogs with seven strikeouts. Dylan Morgan pitched one inning and had three strikeouts. No individual statistics for the Royals were made available for Thursday’s game.

Vanden secures big win over Wood

VACAVILLE — Bryce Alcantara homered and Austin Hammerschmidt was 2-for-4 with a double and two RBIs as the Vanden High School baseball team won 9-5 Friday at Will C. Wood.

Josiah Miguelo and Cody Buckley had doubles for the Vikings. Vanden improved to 8-2 overall and 5-1 in the Monticello Empire League.

Brayden Bruno pitched three innings and was followed by two innings apiece from Trevor Morse and Chris Marley. Vanden had a pair of three-run innings

Kyle Sandner and Jaheem Mosley-Wallace each had a double and drove in a run. Jace Parkinson and Kaden Wilde had one single apiece and an RBI.

Nathan Schikore pitched four innings and had two innings of relief help from Carson Thompson and one from Sandner. The three combined to hold Fairfield to six hits while notching nine strikeouts.

Donavan Luu had two hits for Fairfield. Pat O’Reilly doubled. Trustin Mitchell and Joey Mason each had a single and an RBI.

Pat O’Reilly and Zack O’Reilly split the pitching duties for the Falcons. Pat O’Reilly had three strikeouts.

Fairfield fell to 7-7 overall and 1-5 in the MEL. Rodriguez won the series opener Monday 3-1 before Fairfield won Thursday 5-4 for their first MEL win since 2019. Rodriguez will be in Vacaville for a 4 p.m. game Monday at Will

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