Ohlone softball '30 Something'

The Ohlone College softball team is ‘30 Something.’
The Renegades split a doubleheader with West Valley on Saturday to improve to 30-9 overall and 9-2 in the Coast-North. A 30-win season is something to behold, but Ohlone seems to have cornered the market. The baseball team has 31 wins.
The Renegades will travel to Coast-North leader CSM (34-4, 10-1) on Tuesday to complete the regular season.
Ohlone recovered from a 2-1 loss in Game 1 Saturday with a dramatic 3-2 win.
How is the team’s mindset for the CSM game?
“Fantastic,” Ohlone coach Julie Marshall texted emphatically.
In the second game Saturday, the Renegades, with a natural flair for the dramatic, scored single runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to scratch out the win.
Former Kennedy star Holly Gonzales picked up the clutch pitching victory, allowing just two earned runs over seven innings, striking out four and walking none.
It was boom-boom for the Renegades in the sixth and seventh as Mallory Ussery and Maya Tomkowiak both slugged solo home runs to make the lead 3-1. In the fifth, Meida Taulalatasi had an RBI single to tie it 1-1.
West Valley took the first game with single runs in the bottom of the sixth and seventh. Renegades starter Ana Beard went the distance, allowing one earned run with five strikeouts and two walks.
Beard ranks third in the state and leads the conference with a 0.82 ERA. She is No. 2 in the Coast-North in both wins with 12 and strikeouts with 73. Gonzales is fourth in the category with 44 strikeouts.
Taulalatasi is No. 26 in the state with a .458 batting average (No. 2 in the conference), including 60 hits (No. 1 in the conference). She is also third in the conference with 16 stolen bases. A two-way force, Karen Didio is fourth in the conference in three categories: RBIs (32), ERA (1.65), wins (8).
Photo by Don Jedlovec