Though an April 15 loss to Cabrillo threw a wrench into the
Gavilan College softball team’s progress toward a Coast Conference
South championship, the Lady Rams finished in second place are
poised to make a run in the 2010 Northern California Community
College Regional playoffs.
GILROY
Though an April 15 loss to Cabrillo threw a wrench into the Gavilan College softball team’s progress toward a Coast Conference South championship, the Lady Rams finished in second place and are poised to make a run in the 2010 Northern California Community College Regional playoffs.
Gavilan, the No. 14 seed, will travel to Visalia on Saturday for the start of a best-of-three series with the No. 3-seeded College of the Sequoias in the first round of the playoffs.
“I’m very happy with it,” Gavilan manager Nikki Dequin said of the pairing with the Giants. “I think it will be a good matchup because of the way we played them earlier in the season. We are playing a lot better than we were back then.”
The two teams converged for a doubleheader back in February in Gilroy. The Lady Rams (25-12) dropped both encounters, but took the Giants into the 12th inning before losing Game 1, 7-5. COS (34-6) won the second game 5-1.
All-Conference
Jasmine Perez, who was named to the All-Northern California team, highlights a list of four Lady Rams recognized with first team All-Coast Conference selections.
Perez, the Lady Rams’ leadoff hitter, posted a .439 batting average, 16 runs and 25 hits in 16 conference games this season. The Gilroy High graduate compiled an average of .434 in 36 games, scoring 31 runs and pounding out 51 hits as the catalyst at the top of Dequin’s lineup.
Joining Perez is pitcher Melinda Ortiz, catcher Amanda Ross and pitcher/first baseman Nikki Lobato.
Ortiz went 5-2 in conference with 41 strikeouts in 43.2 innings of work, with an earned run average of .80.
Jen Huebner and Cristy Pineda earned second-team selections, and Emily Castro received honorable mention.
