{"id":95874,"date":"2026-04-20T20:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=95874"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:27:59","slug":"eagles-blank-vikings-gain-control-in-mvl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=95874","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Blank Vikings; Gain Control in MVL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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South El Monte’s Elijah Benavidez shut out Mt. View for six and two-thirds innings. (Photo by Duane Barker).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(South El Monte) – Elijah Benavidez threw six and two-thirds scoreless innings to lead South El Monte to a 6-0 win over Mt. View Monday on the Eagles home field. With the victory the Eagles are in sole possession of first place in the Mission Valley League.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Emiliano Gonzalez came on with two out in the seventh inning to relieve Benavidez and nail down the shutout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anthony Mata had three hits and scored a run to lead the Eagles offensive attack. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Eagles got all the tuns they needed in the first inning. Anthony Mata doubled and scored on a single by Bobby Rojas. Rojas then scored on an infield hit by Riley Leon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mt. View loaded the bases in the third inning on two walks and a base hit by Luke Davila but Benavides wiggled off the hook as he got Adam Alcantar to hit into a force play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adam Alcantar went the distance for Mt. View. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

South added three more in the fourth inning. Leon walked and took second on a balk. He then came all the way around to score when a ball was thrown wildly to first base on a bunt by Damian Cordova. Jesse Zavala then hit a ground ball to third that was also thrown away for an error and Cordova scored. Mata’s single scored Zavala. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Eagles added a little gravy in the sixth when Matthew Velasquez came off the bench and singled, stole second and scored on a base knock by Zavala. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benavidez struck out eight and allowed five hits while blanking the Vikings into the seventh. Alcantar started and went the distance for Mt. View.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South El Monte is now 11-8 overall but more importantly 6-1 and alone in first place in the MVL. Mt. View fell to 11-6 and 4-3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arroyo is in second place in the MVL at 5-2 and will face South El Monte Wednesday at South. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Tim Peterson (South El Monte) – Elijah Benavidez threw six and two-thirds scoreless innings to lead South El Monte to a 6-0 win over Mt. View Monday on the Eagles home field. With the victory the Eagles are in sole possession of first place in the Mission Valley League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-95874","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\/95874","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95874"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95887,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95874\/revisions\/95887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}