{"id":6864,"date":"2026-07-07T17:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:54:24","slug":"lake-county-diamonds-take-second-win-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6864","title":{"rendered":"Lake County Diamonds take second, win rings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

12-under traveling softball team posts 4-2 record during holiday tournament in Benicia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BENICIA >> The Lake County Diamonds 12-under summer softball team took home individual rings as well as a second-place trophy in the gold bracket at the Del Holson Firecracker Tournament July 4-5 at Benicia Community Park in Benicia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Diamonds followed up a 2-1 Saturday with a 2-1 Sunday, falling 15-3 to the Benicia Outlaws Elite A team in the championship game Sunday. Losing pitcher Araya Dotson went 1-for-2 with a triple while teammates Ava Cockrill and Kaelani Becerril both went 2-for-2 in the loss. Estella Del Sarto went 1-for-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake County won each of its first two games Sunday to reach the championship game, beginning with a 12-2 win over the Benicia Outlaws Poole team. Emmie Hernandez earned the pitching win while Dotson went 3-for-3 with a triple and Avery English went 3-for-3. Becerril, Addison Brown and Cataleya Valencia also had hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving to the semifinals, the Diamonds delivered with a 10-9 walk-off victory. Dotson was the winning pitcher while also going 1-for-3 with a triple. Cockrill went 4-for-4 while Hernandez, Becerril and Brown all had three hits. English went 2-for-4 while Valencia and Del Sarto each had a hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Saturday action, the Diamonds opened the tournament with a 6-2 over the PHBA Panthers. Dotson went 2-for-3 with an inside-the-park home run, Hernandez went 2-for-3, and Becerril and Cockrill each had a hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake County won its next game, 8-3, against the Benicia Outlaws Poole team behind the pitching of Hernandez, who also went 2-for-2. Becerril also had two hits. Del Sarto, Dotson, Cockrill and Faith Myers all had a hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Diamonds dropped their final game Saturday to the same Benicia Outlaws Elite A team they would lose to in Sunday\u2019s championship game, this time by a 3-0 final score.  Dotson was the losing pitcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake County was held without a hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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12-under traveling softball team posts 4-2 record during holiday tournament in Benicia Lake County Sports on Facebook BENICIA >> The Lake County Diamonds 12-under summer softball team took home individual rings as well as a second-place trophy in the gold bracket at the Del Holson Firecracker Tournament July 4-5 at Benicia Community Park in Benicia. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,125,89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864"}],"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=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6868,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions\/6868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}