SPRING SPORTS

5/14--St. Joseph Notre Dame 6, John Swett 1: Led by the pitching of senior Dana Johnson, the Lady Pilots softball team was all business against John Swett. In a rematch of the thrilling walk off win by the Lady Pilots a few weeks ago, the battery of Johnson and senior catcher Helen Romero took control in the first inning by striking out the side. Johnson finished with 15 Ks, allowing four hits and only one run.  The Lady Pilots got key hits from sophomores Elizabeth Ahrens and Alexis Perez and junior Kristen Inouye.

5/1--Star of the Week, Alameda Journal: Brian Aria, tennis — The sophomore stayed unbeaten in the BSAL with a 6-0, 6-0 win against an Encinal opponent on April 23.

4/28--SJND 13, Piedmont 11: For the second game in a row, the Pilots overcame a significant deficit in BSAL baseball action. They gave up 6 runs to Piedmont before going on to win 13-11. The Pilot offense was powered by an 8-run fifth inning, led by junior centerfielder Billy Johnson's 3-run homer to put St. Joe’s ahead of the Highlanders. The very next batter, senior catcher Jesus “Chuy” Alvarez, hit a solo blast in almost the exact same spot over the right centerfield fence. The Highlanders fought back with four runs in the 6th to tie the score before the Pilots put up another 3 runs in the bottom of the inning, including a safety squeeze bunt by junior Sean Harding. The Pilot pitching bent but did not break to allow the offense to put up big numbers. Senior pitcher Dominic Ratto led the pitching staff, giving up 4 earned runs in 5 innings of work.

4/23---Star of the Week, Alameda Journal: Alyssa Bermudez, softball — The senior corner infielder was 3 for 4 in a 9-8 win over John Swett on April 13, and was 2 for 2 in a 21-0 loss to Albany on April 16.

4/23--SJND 18, Salesian 9: Saint Joseph Notre Dame overcame an 8-run deficit in the top of the first to beat Salesian 18 to 9 in BSAL baseball. The Pilots pounded out 12 hits, including a homerun and double with 5 RBIs from senior catcher Jesus "Chuy" Alvarez. The Pride scored first and often with Andrew Ambion leading off the game with a solo blast that began an 8 run 1st inning and which included 6 walks. St. Joe's was not deterred as they answered with runs in every inning but one and had their own 8-run inning in the bottom of the 4th. Seniors Jonathan Kachiu and Dominic Ratto allowed the Pilots to come back by limiting Salesian to just 1 run for the final 6 innings.

4/21--SJND 5, Encinal 2: In men's tennis, Brian Aria continued his unbeaten streak, defeating John Chan 6-0, 6-0.

4/15--Island teams still have playoffs in mind, Oakland Tribune

4/15--In men's tennis, Brian Aria extended his winning streak to nine, beating St. Mary's number one player 6-1, 6-3. Aria was the only winner as SJND lost 6-1.

4/13--SJND 9, John Swett 8. In girls softball, the Pilots scored five runs in their last at bat to beat John Swett 9-8. With two outs and a tie score, Crystal Carillo laid down a perfect bunt to score Alexis Perez from third for the win.

4/8--Stars of the Week, Alameda Journal: Helen Romero, St. Joseph Notre Dame softball — The senior utility player led a 15-1 BSAL win over Kennedy on April 2 by going 3-for-3.

3/24--Encinal 8, SJND 2-- Encinal rallied for three runs in the 5th and four runs in the 7th to beat SJND 8-2 in BSAL varsity baseball action. The two Alameda schools fought a tough contest through four innings with St. Joe’s (4-2) taking the lead on a two-out single by senior Jesus “Chuy” Alvarez to drive in two runs. SJND went to middle relief after getting four quality innings from senior Dominic Ratto (4 inn., 1 run , 4 hits). The Pilots immediately faltered giving up a lead off hit-by-pitch and a walk. Down by 1 run and in a bunt situation, Encinal’s Adam Boyd read a rotation play perfectly and pulled his bat back to hit a ground ball through the vacated middle of the field. Boyd drove in one to tie the score, sent another to third, and reached second on the play. St. Joe’s countered with senior pitcher Jonathan Republicano who almost halted the attack by getting a ground ball and a strike out, but Jet’s second basemen Joe Serventi made the Pilots pay with a 2 RBI double to left center field to put the Jets ahead 4-2. Encinal never looked back riding Boyd’s 6 innings of 6 hit, 5 strikeout work and blew the game wide-open with 4 runs in the top of the seventh. Sean Harding, the junior 1st baseman for SJND, had three hits in defeat.

3/22--SJND 15, Piedmont 7: SJND scored early and often pounding Piedmont for 15 runs to win a BSAL varsity baseball contest 15 to 7. The Pilots (4-1, 2-1 BSAL) were led by Zac Fowler who had 3 hits and drove in 4 runs. Sean Harding also had 3 hits and drove in 2 runs. The Pilots walked 9 times and were hit-by-pitch twice to contribute to the barrage of runs. Junior 2B Justin Oilar walked 4 times.

3/21--How Jason Kidd Prepared Joe Nelson for his Predicament, WEEI Sportsradio Network

3/19--St. Patrick/St. Vincent 4, SJND 3-- St. Patrick/St. Vincent beat St. Joseph/Notre Dame in BSAL action 4-3. The SPSV Bruins chipped away at the SJND Pilots (3-1, 1-1 BSAL) with 2 runs in the 4th, and single runs in the 5th and 6th innings. A strong performance by Junior Billy Johnson who had 2 hits, 2 RBIs, and threw a runner out at the plate from centerfield to thwart a Bruin run. Cameron Braband was 2-3 for the Pilots.

3/18--SJND 9, Salesian 8-- St. Joseph Notre Dame varsity baseball team survived a 5-run 7th inning uprising by Salesian to hang on 9-8. SJND dominated 6 innings of play led by the senior's strong pitching of Jonathan Republicano who had given up 2 earned runs and scattered 5 hits to that point. The Pilots (3-0, 1-0 BSAL) took a 9 to 3 lead into the 7th with hitting up and down their line-up. Junior Kyle Walling had 3 hits, and juniors Justin Oilar and Sean Harding had two hits apiece. Anthony Ratto, Chuy Alvarez, Zac Fowler, and Ollie Cunningham all drove in runs. Things got interesting when the Pride erupted for 5 runs against the tiring Republicano with a 2-run homerun by Tino Leite, followed by a 3-run homerun by K. Zaragoza. Fowler was finally given the ball in relief of Republicano and got the final two outs, the last one a lazy comeback line-drive to Fowler with the tying run at third base for the save.

JV Baseball:; SJND 9, Salesian 4-- A strong pitching performance by sophomore Matthew Hermann for the win.

Tennis: Piedmont 6, SJND 1--Number 1 player Brian Aria had the only win for SJND.

3/16: In tennis, SJND beat Salesian 5 matches to 2. Brian Aria, Joseph Eusebio and Oliver Dam won in singles. William Eisenman/Chris Duong and Francis Guang/Anthony Gomez won their doubles matches.

3/15--In a very tight match, SJND fell to St. Mary's 4 matches to 3. Brian Aria and Joseph Eusebio won their singles matches, and William Eisenman/Chris Duong won their doubles match.

3/5-- The Varsity Baseball team finally played its first game of the season after a couple of rain outs vs. Berean Christian at Washington Park. The Pilots were victorious in a hard fought pitching duel 2 to 1. Senior Dominic Ratto got the victory (5 2/3 innings, 1 run, 2 hits) and senior Jonathan Republicano (1 1/3 innings, 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 walks) got the save. The Pilots got a big 2 RBI hit from senior Anthony Ratto in the bottom of the 3rd. The inning began with a lead off single by sophomore Ollie Cunningham, who was sacrificed to second by junior Justin Oilar. Christopher "Smokey" Livingston then had a pinch hit single to move Cunningham to third.  Junior Billy Johnson was intentionally walked to load the bases when Ratto, of the Anthony variety, hit a sharp single to right to drive in the decisive runs. The Pilots played strong defensively lead by Cunningham at third base and Oilar at second base, both with 4 assists each.

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