UPPER LAKE >> Julia Mooney’s solo home run in the bottom of the fourth inning provided all the offense she needed to beat the Geyserville Broncos in a non-league softball game on Friday afternoon in Upper Lake.
The sophomore pitcher had the game, which the Cougars went on to win 10-0 in five innings, well in hand by then thanks to all kinds of offensive support from her teammates, including a 2-for-3 day with two RBIs by Rebecca Harper, a 3-for-4 day by her catcher Cheyanne Obedoza, and two RBIs apiece from Jazlyn Bonilla and Katlyn Minnis.
“The girls played awesome,” Upper Lake coach Kelly Coburn said.
Apart from banging out 12 hits, Coburn said the thing she was most pleased about was the play of her defense, which didn’t commit an error against Geyserville.
“They didn’t rush their throws, they played relaxed,” Coburn said. “We’re improving every game and I can’t ask for anything more.”
Mooney’s pitching completed a solid outing for the Cougars (3-4). She allowed just two hits, struck out six and walked only two.
Upper Lake scored three times in the bottom of the second, added four more runs in the third, and capped it off with a three-run fourth.
The Cougars wrap up the non-league portion of their schedule with a home doubleheader Tuesday against Ferndale beginning at 2 p.m.
In other action Friday:
Baseball
Cloverdale 11, Lower Lake 4
At Lower Lake, the Cloverdale Eagles improved to 3-0 in the North Central League I standings with a win over the Lower Lake Trojans, who drop to 0-3 and 5-5 overall.
The game was scoreless through three innings. Cloverdale jumped on top 2-0 in the top of the fourth and pushed its lead to 7-0 in the fifth. Lower Lake answered with four runs in the bottom of the inning, the first two scoring a single by losing pitcher Bobby Cruz. Jordan McGrath’s RBI double brought home the third run of the inning and he later scored on a passed ball.
Cloverdale got those four runs back in the top of the sixth.
Cruz worked the first five innings for the Trojans. He allowed eight hits and seven runs, only three of which were earned. Hokulani Wickard allowed Cloverdale’s four runs in the sixth and Eric Graves finished with a scoreless seventh.
Lower Lake collected nine hits. McGrath and Ethan Watson had two apiece and Reed Diener added a double.
Tennis
Middletown 4, Clear Lake 1
At Lakeport, the Middletown Mustangs beat the Clear Lake Cardinals in Coastal Mountain Conference tennis action.
In singles play, Solomon Malicay (first), Robert Amante (second) and Johnny Nance (third) all won in straight sets.
The best battle of the day was in second doubles where Trevor Smith and Christian Nikolov of Middletown beat Sereno Dominguez and Bobby Lasher of Clear Lake 6-2, 7-5.
Middletown is without a second doubles team this season and had to forfeit to Clear Lake.
JV baseball
Lower Lake 12, Cloverdale 0
At Cloverdale, Bryan Fonseca pitched a four-hitter and struck out six as the Lower Lake junior varsity baseball team beat the Cloverdale Eagles in a five-inning game.
Izzac Carver, Austin Oranje and Antonio Padilla each had two hits and two RBIs for Lower Lake, which improved to 2-1 in league play and 6-3 overall. One of Padilla’s hits was a double. Gage Thayer went 2-for-2 with a RBI and Guy Boyd went 1-for-3 with a RBI.
Lower Lake broke the game open with a seven-run top of the third inning.
The Trojans are home Tuesday to play Fort Bragg at 4 p.m.
