The 2010-2011 high school sports season belatedly came to an end earlier this week, and much like the last month, rain wreaked havoc on the end results even when the sky wasn’t falling in.
Two games originally scheduled for Cal Berkeley and two to be played at St. Mary’s College last weekend were rained out and re-scheduled for the home sites of the eight teams involved.
In the end, five champions were crowned in the four divisions, that’s right, FIVE champions were crowned.
We told you this was a strange end to this school year, so lets eat up and have fun this summer.
Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner
Alex Martinez from James Logan of Union City gets a half-chicken and two ears of corn. And since this is the last week of action, the rest of the Colts and skipper John Goulding get to feast as well.
Logan, the Bay Area’s top team in the ESPN RISE Cal-Hi Sports final rankings, finishes as No. 10 in the state after a 1-0 victory over De La Salle (Concord) in the rain-postponed CIF North Coast Section Division I championship game in Union City.
In a battle of pitchers that both owned no-hitters on the season, the Colts’ Martinez and the Spartans Logan West each tossed a one-hitter. The difference was an unearned run in the bottom of the sixth inning that lifted Logan to victory as they captured their first NCS title since a 3A East Bay crown in 2001.
Since it wasn’t his fault, we’ll feed Sparta’s West as well, but he gets a smaller portion than the Colts boys receive.
Robb Woodcock from Marin Catholic of Kentfield gets a half a barbeque chicken and a couple of ears of corn after pitching Marin Catholic to its fifth NCS championship and first since 2004.
The 6-foot-4, 220-pound Santa Clara-bound lefthander went six innings in a 10-1 win against McKinleyville, allowing one run on two hits with seven strikeouts. Of his 85 pitches 60 were strikes.
Woodcock finishes his senior season 11-0 with back-to-back no-hitters, a 0.57 ERA, and 103 fanned and only 25 walked in 74.1 innings pitched.
The Campolindo Cougars and head coach Max Luckhurst all get to feast after beating Alameda and Clayton Valley of Concord to capture the NCS Division II championship with both the semifinal 2-1 and the title-game 5-3 victories coming on the road.
Austin Rei delivered the game's biggest blow with a two-run single in the fourth inning, and Campolindo got gutsy performances from all three of its main pitchers, Trent Shelton, Matt Bruzzone and staff ace James Marvel to win its second-straight Division II crown.
Corn on the Cob
The McKinleyville baseball team all get ears of corn and we’ll throw in a few chicken wings and legs to feed them. To get a whole dinner you had to be a winner, but head coach Dustin Dutra (also the successful girls basketball coach) and his Panthers were a class act.
When the game at St. Mary’s College was rained out on June 4, Dutra and the boys remained in the Bay Area two days, never complained, and went out with dignity, even though other than a monster home run by Juston Frazier, they couldn’t hit Woodcock for their life.
The Husks
Unlike McKinleyville, the Acalanes (Lafayette) folks, and in particular Principal Aida Glimme, showed very little class. Although they maneuvered their way into a co-championship with San Marin of Novato, they didn’t deserve it.
From us they get a husk.
All the other lower seeded teams took the moves from Cal and St. Mary’s with little fanfare, even though they probably didn’t like it.
Not Acalanes or Glimme. Before the game was played I heard her grousing with parents that the contest should have been back at St. Mary’s and that she had made financial arrangements to make it happen.
Then, when the NCS Div. III title game in Novato was called after 10 innings and the score tied 4-4, the Acalanes administrator took a position that no one was able to meliorate.
She steadfastly was against coming back to Novato and re-iterated that she would pick up the cost to move the suspended game back to St. Mary’s. Her tone of voice was disrespectful to San Marin coach Mark Whitburn and her facial expressions were contorted to boot.
She should have donated that money to rent a facility for a game that might have lasted 10-15 minutes, and where no admission could be charged, to a school that needs the money.
Another husk goes to the NCS for caving in to faulty reasons for not resuming the game and declaring co-champions.
Yes, there were finals at both schools, and the San Marin senior boys had a grad party in Disneyland, but something could have been worked out and wasn’t.
After perusing the NCS web site, we could not find a co-champion in any of the major sports, ever. This one was a first.
I agree with him almost all the time, but on this one NCS commissioner Gil Lemmon has to eat husk.
As for the San Marin boys, we saved a few ears of corn for them.
That’s all for this school year. See you in the fall for football.
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Harold Abend, a San Francisco native, has been covering high school sports in California and beyond for almost 30 years. He is currently a correspondent for ESPN RISE Cal-Hi Sports, the San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate and Marinscope Newspapers. He is also the vice-president of the California Prep Sports Writers Association.
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PrepFeed-Abend Bay Area Top 10
Final Expanded Rankings after June 7
1. James Logan 24-4 (5)
2. Palo Alto 28-9 (3)
3. Archbishop Mitty 26-6-1 (4)
4. St. Francis (Mtn. View) 25-6 (6)
5. Alameda 25-2 (1)
6. Clayton Valley 22-4-2 (3)
7. De La Salle 20-8 (8)
8. Hollister 22-9 (7)
9. Heritage 20-7 (9)
10. Campolindo 19-8-1 (NR)
11T. San Ramon Valley 18-7 (10T)
11T. Valley Christian-SJ 16-14 (10T)
11T. Menlo 26-5 (10T)
11T. Marin Catholic 24-4 (NR)
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