{"id":6853,"date":"2026-07-01T03:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2026-07-01T03:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:18:01","slug":"lake-county-diamonds-go-3-2-at-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6853","title":{"rendered":"Lake County Diamonds go 3-2 at tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Both losses come to same team at NorCal Championships in Tracy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TRACY &gt;&gt; The Lake County Diamonds 12-under club softball team placed fourth in their division over the weekend at the NorCal Championships in Tracy, finishing the tournament with a 3-2 record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of the Diamonds\u2019 losses came to the same team, the Millbrae Mischief. After falling 12-3 to the Mischief in their first game of the tournament and bouncing back with three straight wins, the Diamonds met the Mischief again in the third-place game, dropping a 4-3 decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ava Cockrill went 3-for-3 for Lake County while Avery English, Araya Dotson and Emmie Hernandez all had hits. Dotson was the losing pitcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their first meeting with the Mischief, the Diamonds received hits from Dotson, who tripled, Hernandez and Kaelani Becerril.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Diamonds beat the San Carlos Force 10-2 for their first of three straight wins. Hernandez was the winning pitcher while both Hernandez and Estella Del Sarto had two hits apiece. Cockrill went 1-for-1 and Becerril went 1-for-2 with a double.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County came right back with a 14-3 win over the Belmont Blast, riding the pitching of Dotson and a 4-for-4 day at the plate by Del Sarton. Hernandez went 2-for-2, Dotson went 2-for-4 and inside-the-park home run, and Madison Richter went 2-for-4 with a double. Becerril and Faith Myers added two hits apiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Diamonds defeated another Benicia team, this time the Benicia Outlaws, in the second of their three games Sunday, Hernandez was the winning pitcher. At the plate, English went 2-for-3, Myers went 2-for-3 with a double, and Cockrill, Richter and Dotson had one hit each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County is coached by Jerry Valencia and Dustin Hernandez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1000029022-1024x698.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1000029022-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1000029022-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1000029022-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1000029022-1536x1046.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1000029022.jpg 1801w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both losses come to same team at NorCal Championships in Tracy Lake County Sports on Facebook TRACY &gt;&gt; The Lake County Diamonds 12-under club softball team placed fourth in their division over the weekend at the NorCal Championships in Tracy, finishing the tournament with a 3-2 record. Both of the Diamonds\u2019 losses came to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6856,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions\/6856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}