Hastings and Martin and some good defense is honorable but isn’t enough for the win. A.J. Hastings and Reid Martin took it upon themselves to stand up for the many and multiple uncouth displays made by the charter school kids of Clayton on the baseball field against the Dons in recent memory. The two, who usually have no trouble doing…
The Varsity Baseball team came from behind to score 2 runs in the top of the 7th inning and walk away with a much needed 2-1 victory in Benicia on Thursday! It improved their outstanding record to 18-2 and took the second game of a 2 game series from the Benicia Panthers. In the late 80’s we learned from the…
The Varsity Baseball team lost to Benicia on Tuesday, 8-1. The boys suffered their first home loss of the season. Jake Colaco started on the mound for the Dons and lasted 1.2 innings before he was relieved by Branson Smith. Branson went 2.1 innings and gave up 4 hits, a walk and a run in his 9th appearance of the…
After beating the College Park Falcons last Thursday, the JV baseball team took to the road to ground another flying foe, this time taking down the Falcons of Pleasanton’s Foothill High. Before any of the spectators even had time to wonder how many fly balls the left fielders would lose in the evening sun, the Dons struck for 3 runs…
Brady Wall knew it was coming. No one wanting to sit next to him on the bench. No one saying much about how he was lining up College Park batters and sending them back to the dugout shaking their heads. After being snakebit in successive bottom-of-the-seventh walk off loses, the Dons needed the stellar performance on the mound that Wall…
The Varsity Baseball team lost their first game of the season on Thursday against the College Park Falcons in Pleasant Hill 5-1. The loss ended a 17 game winning streak this season that is actually a 19 game winning streak for the program, counting the last 2 games won at the end of the 2023 campaign. Both of these benchmarks…
The Varsity Baseball team beat the College Park Falcons 4-3 in 9 innings on Tuesday before a raucous crowd, under Acalanes blue skies! It pushed their League record to 3-0 and their overall season tally to 17-0. It was the 19th consecutive win for this impressive Division 1 program. The Dons withstood their first significant headwinds of the season against…
Slim margin again slips away in the bottom of the seventh, this time at College Park. Another nice spring day. Another road game against a team of similar ilk. Another strong outing by a starting pitcher. Another game with an isolated single-inning of scoring for the Dons, in fact both games featuring 3-run fourth innings by the Dons. Another game…
Dons can’t wrangle the last three outs in the bottom of the seventh, Cowboys get the walk-off win. After holding the host Pokes to 1 run over the first six innings, a potpourri of dinks, dunks, bunts, and errors, with a sac fly thrown in, led to the Dons’ demise in the bottom of the seventh inning, on…
The train keeps rolling down the tracks for the Acalanes Varsity Baseball team. They recorded another impressive win, beating the Northgate Broncos 9-1 on a picture perfect day for baseball in Lafayette. The boys had their game faces on for the league home opener under sunny skies. The Dons offense was relentless, with 4 runs in the 1st inning and…