{"id":66596,"date":"2019-05-03T18:52:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=66596"},"modified":"2019-05-03T18:52:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T01:52:45","slug":"martinez-south-finish-off-west-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=66596","title":{"rendered":"Martinez, South, Finish off West Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_66597\" style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=66597\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66597\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66597\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66597\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rachel-leon-sem--e1556934533202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rachel-leon-sem--e1556934533202.jpg 345w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rachel-leon-sem--e1556934533202-38x70.jpg 38w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rachel-leon-sem--e1556934533202-162x300.jpg 162w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rachel-leon-sem--e1556934533202-81x150.jpg 81w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-66597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Leon makes a play in the outfield for South.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By MVS Staff<\/p>\n<p>[South El Monte] Chasity Martinez drove in Nevaeh Castruita with a walk off base hit in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift South El Monte to a 3-2 win over West Valley Thursday in the first round of the CIF Division 4 playoffs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Castruita and the Mustangs Anniyah Farley engaged in a pitching duel. Farley struck out 10 Eagles in 7 1\/3 innings giving up just four hits but hit three and walked another, while Castruita struck out seven gave up five hits and two runs in 8 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Alyssa Hernandez hit a triple in the fourth inning driving in Liyah Rangel and Ava Camarena to put up South 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>West Valley cut the lead in half when Aliana Zavala brought Jaeydan Forshaw with a single to right field.<\/p>\n<p>It looked like the Mustangs took a 4-2 lead in the sixth inning but a runner interference cost them three runs and kept the game at 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>In the top of the seventh West Valley\u2019s sophomore Amarah Farley hit a double with one out and scored on a infield single from Evelyn Lorch making it 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>That took the game into extra innings after a one-two-three seventh inning from the Lady Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>In the bottom of the eighth Castruita hit a bloop single and stole second with Martinez up to bat. On a two-one count Martinez hit a hard liner to left which the outfielder bobbled and had no chance of getting Castruita at home for the game winner.<\/p>\n<p>South El Monte\u2019s freshmen Rachel Leon early in the game gunned out a Mustang who tried to stretch a single into a double on a outstanding defensive play.<\/p>\n<p>Lady Eagles (21-3) will face La Canada (17-5-1), the Rio Hondo league champions, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66598\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=66598\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66598\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66598\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66598\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/chastity-martinez-sem--e1556934745389.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/chastity-martinez-sem--e1556934745389.jpg 420w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/chastity-martinez-sem--e1556934745389-64x70.jpg 64w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/chastity-martinez-sem--e1556934745389-276x300.jpg 276w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/chastity-martinez-sem--e1556934745389-138x150.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-66598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chastity Martinez takes a rip for South El Monte.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MVS Staff [South El Monte] Chasity Martinez drove in Nevaeh Castruita with a walk off base hit in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift South El Monte to a 3-2 win over West Valley Thursday in the first round of the CIF Division 4 playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7338],"class_list":["post-66596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-south-el-monte-softball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66599,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66596\/revisions\/66599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}