{"id":72158,"date":"2021-06-13T15:11:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=72158"},"modified":"2021-06-13T15:11:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:11:46","slug":"moors-end-historic-season-with-loss-in-cif-softball-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=72158","title":{"rendered":"Moors End Historic Season with Loss in CIF Softball Semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Ron Vrooman <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Alhambra Moors, winners of nine straight going into their Division 6 semifinal game against St. Bonaventure, finally met their match in the Seraphs on Thursday.\u00a0The Seraphs scored single runs in the first and fifth innings, and pitcher Ashlyn Flinchum did the rest, throwing a two-hit shutout to defeat the Moors, 2-0.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The victory sent St. Bonaventure (19-6) to the division championship game next Saturday. The Seraphs&#8217; opponent will be Orange Vista (17-4), which beat Lompoc, 6-0, in the other semifinal matchup.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the playoff loss, 2021 was a historic season for the Alhambra varsity. First-year head coach Gilbert Ramos and assistant Christine Valenzuela took a team which went 1-4 in a pandemic-shortened 2020 season and led it to its best record in decades or&#8212;possibly&#8212;ever. The Moors\u00a0won an Almont League co-championship with the Schurr Spartans and ended up with an overall mark of 16-2, surpassing their 15-win seasons in 2016 and 2018.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Junior right-hander Hailey Yoshida was the Moors&#8217; pitching ace, and their leading run-producers were senior shortstop Priscilla Hernandez, senior catcher Celeste Cortez, and Yoshida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/ui\/v1\/icons\/mail\/profile_mask2.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ron Vrooman The Alhambra Moors, winners of nine straight going into their Division 6 semifinal game against St. Bonaventure, finally met their match in the Seraphs on Thursday.\u00a0The Seraphs scored single runs in the first and fifth innings, and pitcher Ashlyn Flinchum did the rest, throwing a two-hit shutout to defeat the Moors, 2-0.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-72158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72159,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72158\/revisions\/72159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}