Both Benicia and St. Patrick-St. Vincent high schools had their varsity softball teams clinch league championships late in the week.

SPSV SOFTBALL’S six seniors played their final regular season home game on Friday. SPSV’s six seniors are (back row from left) Christina Snell, Briana Reason and Tierney Bates; (front row) Zaria Meshack, Nicci Barker and Dot Bibb.

Benicia captured an outright Solano County Athletic Conference championship thanks to a 15-0 win over visiting Fairfield last Thursday and a 7-0 victory at Vallejo on Friday. The Lady Panthers improved to 15-4 overall and 13-0 in the SCAC, three games ahead of Vanden (9-3 SCAC) with two games remaining.

SPSV swept a doubleheader from visiting El Cerrito on Friday, winning 17-0 and 16-0 to gain a co-championship with Salesian in the Tri-County Athletic League. The Lady Bruins (20-3, 9-1 TCAL) own the tiebreaker over Salesian (9-1 TCAL), get an automatic berth into the North Coast Section playoffs and get a first-round bye in this week’s TCAL playoffs.

Benicia pitcher Danielle Kranz threw a no-hitter against Vallejo – the senior’s fourth no-hitter of the year. Vallejo managed only one hit off Kranz in 15 innings this season. Benicia’s offense scored in 5-of-7 innings, led by Chanler Powell’s two RBI and three hits by Alana Combes.

The Lady Panthers scored 15 runs in the first three innings against Fairfield. Taylor Bloch went 3-for-4 with two doubles, a run and five RBI. Combes went 3-for-3 with three runs, Jenna Anway scored three times and Mallory Barnard went 2-for-3 with two runs and two RBI.

Brianna Schlattman made her first pitching start of the season and allowed only one hit in a five-inning shutout.

SPSV celebrated Senior Day by demolishing El Cerrito twice. Christina Snell had four hits in the first game and drove in several runs. Taya de Alba pitched a two-hit shutout in Game 1 and Cecily Kaluza tossed a two-hit shutout in Game 2.

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