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With just two meets left in the league dual portion of the season Pacheco High hosted Grace Davis last Friday and celebrated senior day 2025.
The meet was a matchup of two of the top boys and girls teams in the Western Athletic Conference. After suffering their first league loss the week before to Beyer, the Pacheco girls were looking to keep pace with the Patriots and send Grace Davis to third place.
The girls team did just that defeating the Spartans 98-72 and remains one match behind Beyer. On the boys side was a match up of the final two undefeated teams in WAC meets. After handing Beyer their first loss last week the Panther boys were able to give Davis their first loss as well with a 101-69 victory.
Both teams finish at Livingston this week before hosting the league finals April 24-25th. For the boys a win next week and finishing higher than Davis and Beyer would earn the schools first league title. The girls can match that feat by beating Livingston and finishing ahead of Beyer at the league finals.
Baseball
Holding on to hopes of still finding a way to get into the playoffs the Pacheco baseball team played a crucial series against Grace Davis last week.
Tuesday’s games featured a pair of returning all league pitchers in Taylor Bland of Davis and Aidan Pikas of Pacheco. Both had difficulties getting out of the third inning and turned the game into a bullpen match up.
Trailing 7-4 going into the bottom of the third a one out Mario Rivera single started the rally. His hit was followed by a single from Tucker Kim and an RBI single from Jacob Sanchez. A walk to John Shryock was followed by an RBI walk to Zealand Hatcher. Two out walks to Sam Honesto, Pikas and Xander Razo would give Pacheco the 9-7 lead after three innings. Pacheco would tack on three more runs and the strong relief pitching of freshman Nate Rogers would secure the 12-9 win.
Looking for the sweep on Thursday the Panthers were overmatched by Spartans pitcher Luke Ariza. Ariza threw a complete game one hitter with 10 Panther strikeouts.
The lone Pacheco hit would come from junior Thomas Price.
Freshman pitcher Mario Rivera started the game and went five innings with 8 strikeouts but walks would lead to 4 runs by the Spartans. The team plays Livingston this week with a home game Tuesday and a night game Thursday at 6:30 pm.
