Ohlone sports recap: A look at baseball, softball, swimming

All lights are green for the Ohlone baseball team as it enters the meaty part of its conference schedule.

The Renegades (18-4 overall, 3-0 in the Coast-Pacific), ranked fourth in the CCCMBCA North Poll, will open an important three-game series against Hartnell (8-14, 5-0) on Tuesday in Salinas. The teams will meet again at Ohlone on Thursday and back at Hartnell on Saturday.
Ohlone, guided by head coach Mike Curran, has an abundance of quality.
Ethan Skuija (6-0) is among the state’s best pitchers with a tidy ERA of 0.67 and 51 strikeouts in 40.1 innings. Cal State Fullerton-bound AJ Curtis paces the offense with a .418 average (No. 2 in the conference). He tops the Pacific with 22 RBI, has 22 runs scored and eight stolen bases. Brett Tressen paces the conference with 11 stolen bases and Curtis is second.
Lefty Stirling Strong is No. 3 in the conference with a 2.00 ERA, and lefty Brian Martinez (5-1) is also in the top three in wins. Strong and Joseph Jennison each have two saves.
But even with all the impressive stats, the Renegades have a lot of heavy lifting left to do. Ohlone set the bar very high last season, advancing past the Regionals, Super Regionals and Sectionals, to the State Championship Series.

SOFTBALL
The Ohlone softball team had three run-scoring doubles in a 4-1 win over Foothill in the Coast-North on Friday.
Karen Didio, Arrianna Whitlock and Ana Beard all smacked RBI doubles.
Meida Taulalatasi and Selena Gomez were both 2 for 4 with a run scored.
Beard was 2 for 2 and Whitlock had two RBI.
Beard (3.2 innings) and Holly Gonzalez (3.1 innings) combined on the pitching duties, each allowing just two hits.
Ohlone improved 2-1 in the Coast-North. Foothill fell to 1-2.
The Renegades also split their first two games in the Ohlone Tournament last weekend at Fremont Softball Complex, blasting Hartnell 11-0 after falling 2-1 to Feather River on March 17. Ohlone broke the game with Hartnell wide open with seven runs in the third. The Renegades pounded out 15 hits in the romp as six players had two hits apiece: Meida Taulalatasi, Selena Gomez, Lauryn Garcia, Karen Didio, Arrianna Whitlock, and Maya Tomkowiak. Didio led the team with three RBI.
Pitchers Ana Beard and Julissa Patino combined on the shutout.
In the loss to Feather River, all the scoring came in the fifth inning. The Renegades scored once in the bottom of the frame on a Garcia RBI. She had two hits and Didio two walks in the contest.

SWIMMING
In rainy and chilly conditions, Ohlone competitors showed their mettle in the College of San Mateo Invitational on March 16. The Ohlone women finished third in the team standings with 197 points and the Ohlone were fourth with 71.
The women’s 200-yard medley relay team of Morgan Seely, Gabriella Kingsley, Wing Sum Lam and Aubrey Schiebel took second in a time of 2:14.33.
In individual highlights, Ohlone’s Mikayla Lee was fourth in the women’s 100 free (1:04.74), and Craig Harkey was third in the men’s 100 free (51.02).
Kingsley was fifth in the women’s 100 fly (1:14.65). Lam was fourth in the women’s 50 free (28.96).
In the women’s 500 free, Ohlone’s Seely and Schiebel were third and fourth, in 6:15.7 and 6:23.7. Eric Correia was fourth in the men’s 500 free (5:50.03). Lee was third in the women’s 200 IM (2:34.08).
Lam and Lee were fourth and fifth in the women’s 200 breast. Harkey was fifth in the men’s 100 breast.