The North Bay League baseball race has been pretty remarkable so far and we have only just begun.
Going into Friday’s action, Rancho Cotate has a one game lead over Cardinal Newman and Montgomery.
How many ways can you say it?
How many times can it be done?
No. 1 Petaluma and No. 4 Rancho Cotate has been winning league championships the last few seasons and both came up with wins to point themselves in that direction for 2013.
Petaluma, who has won a SCL championship the last two years, defeated No. 5 Sonoma Valley 3-1. It is Sonoma Valley’s first league loss and leaves Petaluma and Analy as the only two teams left undefeated in the race.
NBL Softball: Casa Grande vs Santa Rosa.
Both teams enter 1-1 in League play, one game behind the league leaders.
Before we get onto the week notes a result from Monday.
In an NBL baseball game postponed from Friday, Montgomery did it again. They rallied with a four run seventh to edge Windsor 7-6 to move to 3-1 in the NBL race.
The SRJC team started its big series with Sierra in the worst imaginable way. They gave up seven runs in the first inning of game one on its way to an 8-3 loss.
A pattern has established itself for the 2013 baseball season for Casa Grande and Santa Rosa. That pattern continued when the two teams met Friday Afternoon.
That means it is good news for Casa Grande and not such good news for Santa Rosa.
SRJC moves back into a first place tie in the Big 8 race by doing what they have done all season and that is stop the other team.
Jason Alexander went six innings giving up one run and Tyler Sanders closed the deal in the final three as SRJC defeated Sierra 4-2. Alexander is now 5-0 on the season and for Sanders it is his third save. He is also 3-0.
Second game of a three game series this week. Sierra won the first game 8-3 to take a one game lead in The Big 8 Conference standings.
It looked like it was set up for a typical No. 3 Montgomery victory for the 2013 season. The theme has been falling behind and then rallying to win. That was the way the NBL game with Rancho Cotate was playing out and the Vikings were three outs away from staying tied for first place in the NBL race.