Valencia vs Agoura
The Valencia Vikings played their first playoff game against Agoura at home.
In the top of the 1st, Agoura went down in order. Bottom of the 1st, Lauren Boser singled to left field and went to 2nd when Madison Shipman drew a walk. Bethany Kemp grounded out, but advanced Boser to 3rd and Shipman to 2nd. Caitlin Rooney hit a single to right, scoring Boser and Shipman. Amy Moore singled to right advancing Rooney to 3rd. Missy Fundora who was running for Moore was able to steal 2nd. Top of 2nd, Agoura once again went down in order with a groundout and two strikeouts. Bottom of 2nd, Shannnon Fitzgerald singled to center followed by another single to center by Megan Foglesong. Fitgerald however was out at 2nd on the throw from center. Boser singled to center advancing Foglesong to to 3rd. With Shipman up to bat, Boser stole 2nd. Shipman was walked. Kemp singled to center, scoring Foglesong. Top of 3rd, Agoura went down in order. Bottom of 3rd, Moore hit a grounder to 3rd but beat out the throw by sliding into 1st. Annie Dreher singled to center advancing pinch runner Fundora to 2nd. Lindsay Clark had a sacrifice bunt advancing the runners to 2nd and 3rd. Fitzgerald singled to center sending Fundora home and Dreher to 3rd. Foglesong singled to center bringing Dreher home. Boser hit a grounder to short and Fitzgerald was tagged out running to 3rd. Shipman doubled scoring Foglesong and sending Boser to 3rd. Top of 4th, Top of 4th, again Agoura was kept scoreless. Bottom of 4th, Dreher singled to center. With Sarah Solano in running for Dreher she was able to advance to 3rd sith a double to center by Clark. Fitzgerald went to 1st when she was hit by a pitch. With bases loaded and Foglesong up to bat, the pitcher had an illegal pitch and advanced the runners, bringing home Solano. Foglesong singled to center bringing Clark home. Top of 5th, Agoura was again kept scoreless. Bottom of the 5th, the Vikings had one base runner when Kemp drew a walk. Top of 6th, Agoura went down in order. Botttom of 6th, the Lady Vikings did not score. Top of 7th, the only batter that received a hit for the day was a bunt back to Carly Mortensen, the batter was able to beat the throw by sliding into 1st. Agoura was unable to score. The Lady Vikings win their first playoff game with a one hit shutout by Mortensen and by a score of 8-0.
CIF Bracket
The CIF bracket has been posted. Click here to see the bracket in Excel. Go Lady Vikings!! Click on the image below to enlarge it.
Valencia vs Saugus
Lady Vikings took on Saugus at home for their final regular season game.
In the top of the 1st with one out and runners on 1st and 2nd, Amy Moore was able to get the runner out at 1st that was off the bag. The last out of the inning was a pop up to Lauren Boser at 1st. Bottom of 1st, Boser had a walk. Madison Shipman had a pop up fly to short stop that was dropped allowing the runners to be safe at 1st and 2nd. The Vikings were unable to score. Top of the 2nd, Boser was able to make a behind the back catch behind 1st base for the first out of the inning. Saugus was able to get on base with the next two batters having infield singles. The second and third out were recorded by Carly Mortensen with a comebacker and a strikeout. Bottom of 2nd, Lindsay Clark was the only base runner with a walk. Top of 3rd, with the first batter having a slap single and steal 2nd. Moore made a fabulous play by catching a pop up along the fence in foul territory for the first out. The second out of the inning was made by a great catch in center by Megan Foglesong. The third out was made by Moore who threw down to second to get the runner out. Bottom of 3rd, Foglesong led off the inning with a single to center. Boser followed up with a fabulous slap bunt and beat the throw at first and with an overthrow allowed Foglesong to go to third. With Shipman up the catcher had an overthrow trying to throw out Foglesong at 3rd, Foglesong scored and Boser went to 2nd. Boser went on to steal 3nd with an overthrow at 2nd. Bethany Kemp drew a walk. Moore doubled to center to score Boser and Kemp to advance to 3rd. With Annie Dreher up to bat, the Saugus pitcher threw a wild pitch that allowed Kemp to score and. Dreher walked. Top of 4th, Saugus went down in order. Bottom of 4th, Shannon Fitzgerald led off the inning with a walk. Foglesong and Boser both had sacrifice bunts advancing Fitzgerald to 2nd then 3rd. The inning was ended with a line out to 2nd.Top of the 5th, Saugus was unable to score. Bottom of 5th, Caitlin Rooney singled to center. Moore tripled, scoring Justine Sibthorp who was running for Rooney. Dreher hit a groundout that allowed Moore to score. Lindsay Clark singled on an overthrow to 1st and advanced to 2nd. Fitzgerald singled to left to score Clark. Fitzgerald went on to steal 2nd while Foglesong was up to bat. Bottom of 6th, Boser singled, but was thrown out trying to go to 2nd. Kemp walked. Rooney doubled and scored Kemp. Top of 7th, inning was led off with a strikeout followed by a walk. The last two outs were recorded by Shipman who caught a line drive and threw to first for the double play. Lady Vikings get the win 7-2. Carly Mortensen was the winning pitcher.
Valencia vs Hart
It was a packed house and an enormous amount of school spirit at Valhalla field on Tuesday 5-12-09 where the Lady Vikings took on Hart and took the win with a 4 hit shut out.
In the top of the 1st Hart went down in order. Bottom of the 1st, Lauren Boser hit a slapper along the 3rd base side and beat the throw at 1st. Madison Shipman then came up with a double and moved Boser to 3rd. The Lady Vikings were unable to score. Top of the 2nd, Hart had 2 strikeouts followed by a hard hit line drive to Boser for the out. Bottom of the 2nd the Vikings went down in order. Top of 3rd, Harts first two batters struck out followed by a walk, single to left and a groundout to Caitlin Rooney for the third out. Bottom of the 3rd, Shannon Fitzgerald hit the first pitch to right field for a double followed by a sacrifice bunt by Megan Foglesong to advance Fitzgerald to 3rd. Boser drew a walk and Madison Shipman was intentionally walked to load the bases. Again the Vikings were unable to capitalize. Top of 4th, the first batter got on with a walk and advanced to 2nd on a sacrifice bunt. The next two batters were put out by Shipman and Amy Moore. Bottom of the 4th the Vikings went down in order. Top of 5th Hart had a groundout to Rooney followed by a single that tipped off Carly Mortensen’s glove and just got by a diving Shipman into center field. A bunt was put down but Boser tagged out the batter and the runner advanced to 2nd. The inning was ended with a strikeout. Bottom of 5th, Fitzgerald had a single but was caught stealing at 2nd base. Top of 6th, the first two outs were recorded by Mortensen with a comebacker and a strikeout. The next batter hit a single but was able to advance to 3rd on an error. The last out of the inning was handled by Rooney when the batter popped up. The real action began in the bottom of the 6th inning when Boser led of the inning getting to 1st when she was hit by a pitch. With Justine Sibthorp running for Boser, Shipman came to the plate and drew her second walk of the game, advancing Sibthorp to 2nd. Bethany Kemp came to the plate and drew another walk to load the bases. Rooney came to the plate and came up huge when she hit a double to left field scoring Sibthorp and Shipman. With Kemp on 3rd and Rooney on 2nd, Annie Dreher was hit by a pitch and went to 1st to load the bases. The Lady Vikings were unable to score more in the inning. With the Vikings winning 2-0, Harts first batter grounded out to Boser followed by another groundout to Shipman. With two down in the inning and only needing one more out to win the game the next batter hit a ball that seemed as though it would go to left field, but Shipman made a diving save to hold the batter to a single. Mortensen recorded the last out with a strikeout. Mortensen took the win with a 2-0 win with 8 strikeout. This truly was a team effort and the ladies played flawlessly. Thank you to all the support from everyone that came out to cheer these ladies on, it truly made a difference.
Senior Day 2009
This year the Lady Vikings bid farewell to two very special girls. Lindsay Clark and Amy Moore are our only two seniors who will be embarking on the journey of college life this fall. Both girls and their families are very special to Valencia Softball and we will miss them in a BIG way. Amy Moore will be attending University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA and Lindsay Clark will be attending Azusa Pacific in Azusa, CA. Both girls will be representing their schools on the field with well deserved athletic scholarships.
Valencia vs West Ranch
The Lady Vikings took on West Ranch and the win 9-1.
In the 1st inning Amy Moore had a walk but was unable to score. The bottom of the 1st Carly Mortensen was able to get out of an early bases loaded jam when there was a grounder to Madison Shipman who threw home to Amy Moore for the first out of the inning followed by two strikeouts by Mortensen. Top of the 2nd, Annie Dreher had a single. Bottom of the 2nd, the Lady Vikings were able to get West Ranch out 1,2,3.Top of 3rd, Shannon Fitzgerald had a single to right but was put out at 2nd when Megan Foglesong had a fielders choice. Foglesong stole 2nd. Madison Shipman came up and hit a two run homerun over the center field fence. Bethany Kemp went to 1st when she was hit by a pitch. Top of 4th, Dreher singled to short. Top of 5th, Fitzgerald singled to right followed by a double down 3rd base line by Foglesong who scored Fitzgerald. Amy Moore had a bunt single by beating out the throw and advancing Foglesong to 3rd. Foglesong scored on a wild pitch to Shipman. Bottom of the 5th, a batter was walked. With a runner at 1st, Mortensen struck out the next batter and Moore threw down to 2nd to catch the runner trying to steal. Top of 6th, Caitlin Rooney led off the inning with a walk. Dreher doubled to center scoring pinch runner Elena Dickson. Lauren Boser singled to right and advanced to 2nd on an overthrow. Foglesong doubled to left scoring Dreher and Boser. Bottom of 6th, West Ranch was able to score one run. Top of 7th Shipman singled to left and followed up by stealing 2nd base. Kemp doubled to left scoring Shipman. Rooney singled to left advancing Kemp to 3rd. Jessica Smith hit a deep fly ball to left, just missing a homerun and scoring Kemp. Lindsay Clark singled to left. Bottom of 7th, Mortensen struck out the first batter and then walked the following two batters. The next batter popped up a bunt that a diving Rooney caught to hold the runners and record the second out. Mortensen followed up with a strikeout to end the game. Lady Vikings win 9-1, Mortensen got the win with 10 strikeouts.
Valencia vs Golden Valley
Lady Vikings traveled across town to take on Golden Valley a never give up team. Carly Mortensen picked up the win throwing a perfect game posting 10 strikeouts and a score of 15-0.
In the 1st inning Megan Foglesong singled to center followed up by stealing 2nd and 3rd. Bethany Kemp singled to left scoring Foglesong. 2nd inning, Justine Sibthorp walked and then stole 2nd. Shannon Fitzgerald doubled to center scoring Sibthorp. Foglesong tripled to right scoring Fitzgerald. Amy Moore singled to left scoring Foglesong. 3rd inning, Caitlin Rooney doubled to center and went to 3rd on a double by Annie Dreher. Sibthorp doubled to center scoring Rooney. Lindsay Clark singled to center scoring Dreher. With runners at 1st and 2nd Foglesong doubled to left scoring Sibthorp and advancing Clark to 3rd. 4th inning, Kemp singled followed by another single by Rooney. Dreher singled to center scoring Kemp and advancing Rooney to 2nd. Elena Dickson was put in to run for Rooney when Ally Peskay hit a hard shot down the 3rd base line for a single and to score Dickson and advance Dreher to 2nd. Clark hit a single to right to load the bases. Fitzgerald hit a single to center scoring Peskay and Dreher and advancing Clark to 2nd. Moore doubled to center sending Clark home and Fitzgerald to 3rd. With Missy Fundora in to run for Moore, Madison Shipman doubled to left scoring Fitzgerald and advancing Fundora to 3rd. Kemp doubled to right to score Fundora and Shipman. Elena Dickson hit a grounder to Short and was called out at 1st base which looked as if she beat the throw out. In the top of the 5th Sibthorp singled to left. Clark hit a bomb to left which one hopped over the left field fence and was ruled a ground rule double and advancing Sibthorp to 3rd. Foglesong walked. The inning was ended with a flyout to center.