The Alpine/West Menlo Little League 12 year-old All-Stars’ season should have ended when they lost to Palo Alto National in the District 52 All-Star Tournament.
But the team wanted to keep playing, so they entered the San Carlos postseason tournament and won it handily, emerging victorious in five games over four days.
Alpine won the championship game, 4-1, on July 30 against a San Carlos team largely made up of players that Alpine had faced in its 4-0 victory over San Carlos in the District 52 tournament.
Tucker Jorgensen broke a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the sixth with a walk-off, three-run home run. Travis McHugh and Sam Falkenhagen each pitched three innings for Alpine, combining to allow only three hits on 10 strikeouts.
In the tournament’s five games, Alpine outscored its opponents, 62 to 7.
— Alpine/West Menlo coach Dave Denier contributed to this report.
Menlo Park runner second in marathon
Menlo Park resident Chloe Glare, 25, finished second among women in the San Francisco Marathon on July 30 with a time of 3:03:31. Former Stanford University track and field standout Julia Stamps won the race.Glare graduated from Menlo-Atherton High School in 1999 and attended UC-Davis, where she competed on the cross-country team.
Over 15,000 runners participated in the event, which included shorter races in addition to the 26.2-mile marathon. It has raised $250,000 for over 50 local charity organizations since 2003, according to a press release.
Marathon sponsored by Music@Menlo
The MIT Community Running Club will hold a marathon and several other free running events Sunday, August 13, at the Rancho San Antonio County Park in Cupertino. The event is sponsored in part by Music@Menlo, and planners expect the runners to come primarily from Woodside, Portola Valley, Atherton and Menlo Park.The races offered are a 5-kilometer, 10-kilometer, half marathon and full marathon. The park is located at Cristo Rey Drive, near the intersection of Foothill Boulevard and Highway 280 in Cupertino.
For more information, visit MITcrc.org.
Note
In a photo that ran in the July 26 issue of The Almanac, along with the article “Minors All-Star team reaches tournament title game,” two players on the bottom right in the front row were not named in the caption. They are Andrew Dashbach and Kevin Walker.
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