{"id":6870,"date":"2026-07-15T19:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T19:03:48","slug":"lake-county-diamonds-finish-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6870","title":{"rendered":"Lake County Diamonds finish second"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Under-12 softball team drops 7-6 decision in tournament championship game<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SAN ANSELMO &gt;&gt; Dropping a 7-6 heartbreaker to the Santa Rosa Red Barons in the gold bracket championship game, the Lake County Diamonds under-12 traveling softball team just missed taking first place Sunday at the Marin Summer Slam Tournament at Red Hill Community Park in San Anselmo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Losing pitcher Araya Dotson went 2-for-3 in the one-run loss while Ava Cockrill went 2-for-3 with a triple. Avery English, Kaelani Becrril, Estella Del Sarto and Emmie Hernandez added hits in the tournament finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County advanced to the finals with a 6-4 win over the Marin Tremors in the semifinals on Sunday, avenging a Saturday loss to the same team. Winning pitcher Hernandez went 2-for-4 with an inside-the-park home run while Dotson went 2-for-3. English, Cockrill, Del Sarto and Cataleya Valencia each had a hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Diamonds opened tournament play Saturday by winning two out of three. In their opener, they beat the Oakland Vipers 9-4 behind the pitching of Hernandez and a home run by Dotson, who went 3-for-3 in the win. Brooklyn Brown and Adelynn Orozco added two hits apiece while Del Sarto, Hernandez, Cockrill and Gracie Castillo each had one hit. Valencia drew three walks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County lost its next game 10-3 to the Marin Tremors. Hernandez was the losing pitcher but went 2-for-3 at the plate as did Becerril. Valencia, Cockrill and Faith Myers contributed hits. Del Sarto and Madison Richter walked two times apiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Diamonds finished their Saturday schedule with a 19-1 win over the Rohnert Park Rebels to secure a spot in the Sunday gold bracket playoffs. Hernandez earned the pitching win while Cockrill went 1-for-1 with two walks. Dotson and Hernandez added doubles while Becerril also had a hit. Lake County batters collected 19 walks in all during the blowout victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team members received medals for their second-place finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"983\" height=\"722\" src=\"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6142.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6142.jpg 983w, https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6142-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6142-768x564.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 983px) 100vw, 983px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under-12 softball team drops 7-6 decision in tournament championship game Lake County Sports on Facebook SAN ANSELMO &gt;&gt; Dropping a 7-6 heartbreaker to the Santa Rosa Red Barons in the gold bracket championship game, the Lake County Diamonds under-12 traveling softball team just missed taking first place Sunday at the Marin Summer Slam Tournament at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6871,"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\/6870"}],"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=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6873,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions\/6873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}