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West pitcher strikes out 14 Edison batters, taking the team to 3-0 in league play.

West High’s Anthony Salsedo (left) dives back into second base in the game against Edison. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press

After that, all the Vikings would get from Goulding was his curve ball, which started off inside and veered right over the plate. They also got his fastball and an assortment of other pitches to strike out 14 Edison batters in West’s 4-1 win.

West is now 3-0 in the Tri-City Athletic League and 11-7 overall.

West High’s Riley Goulding throws another strike in early inning action in the game against Edison. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press

“I felt like I could put any pitch anywhere I wanted,” he said. “Everything was working today.”

The Edison team didn’t go down for lack of effort. Once they figured out the break on the ball, Edison coach Joaquin Fernandez urged them to take more swings, but they still couldn’t get the hit.

West High’s Ryan Devencenzi (right) dives back into first ahead of the throw on the pick off attempt in the game against Edison. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press

West scored twice in the first inning after Thomassen got on base through an infield error and advanced and then scored on passed pitches. Anthony Salsedo walked and came home on an infield single by Fontaine, but Edison ended the first and second innings on double plays.

Salsedo scored again in the third after he walked, advanced on a steal and came home on a Devencenzi single up the middle. He scored one more time when he drove the ball out to the right-center fence and sprinted around the bases for a triple.

West High’s third baseman Matt Fontaine gets in front of the groundball as he plays some defense in the game against Edison. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press

He came home on Devencenzi’s sacrifice grounder for West’s fourth run.

Tracy 14, Franklin 5

Tracy’s leadoff batter Stevie Ramos sent the first pitch of the game for a high drive over the right field fence. It set the pace for the rest of the four-run first inning and gave Tracy enough of a lead that Franklin couldn’t catch up.

Tracy extended its lead in the seventh inning, which included Vince Canale’s two-RBI triple. Canale has two RBIs in the second as well, and Justin Evans, B.J. O’Bryan and Tyler Silva also drove in runs.

Coach Vic Alkire said the key to this game is a familiar story. Reliever Bret Maddox took over in the second inning, pitched 4-2/3 innings, gave up one hit, no runs, and struck out six Franklin batters.

“A lot of his wins have been where other pitchers started and Bret comes in a shuts the door on the other team,” Alkire said, adding that Bulldog senior is 8-0 this year.

Maddox has the third lowest earned run average in the league, 1.861 over 26-1/3 innings. First is Tracy freshman Kyle Moses, who has given up no earned runs in 15-2/3 innings, and second is Franklin’s Jess Covarruvias, 1.524 over 41 innings. Covarruvias will start for Franklin when the two teams play again at Tracy High on Friday.

Tracy is now 3-0 in the San Joaquin Athletic Association and 16-3 overall.

(S) Tracy 16, Franklin 4

Alex Flores homered in the first inning and hit a triple in the second. In all he batted in five of Tracy’s runs. Dominik Nazario specialized in getting Tracy’s rallies going again with two outs in an inning as he got three base hits and batted in three. Robbie Jackman also got three hits and drove in two.

The winning pitcher was reliever Robbie Jackman, who gave up no hits and one run in three innings. Tracy is now 18-1 overall and 3-0 in the SJAA.

(S) West 11, Edison 0

Chris Collins pitched four innings and allowed one hit for the Vikings Wednesday at West High, and Griffin Dias closed the last inning with no hits and two strikeouts.

Jonathan Townsend, Jordan Devencenzi and Taylor Kruger each drove in two for the Wolf Pack and Jeff Koury and Clyde Parilla also got multiple base hits for the day. West is 3-0 in TCAL and 11-8 overall.

(F) West 10, Tokay 9

It started out as a close game, shifted back and forth, and west had a 9-8 lead going into the top of the seventh inning, which is when the Tokay Tigers tied the game at 9 each during play at West High on Monday. West got runners on base, including D.J. Watson on second.

The coaches game Watson the sign to steal third and Tokay’s catcher missed the throw as Watson slid into the base.

“D.J.’s a real fast runner so he got up and took off,” coach Vince Vargas said.

West got its hits from Joey Wagner, Sal Alvarado and Eric Gleese, who hit a double and a triple.

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