Lincoln’s Keona Perez celebrates her in-the-park two-run home run with Lincoln’s Carina Reuterskiold against Pioneer High School in the fifth inning at Lincoln High School in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, April 18, 2024. SAN JOSE – Jaylynn Perez stabbing a sharp line drive at third base and calmly throwing a frozen rope to first for the out.
“They’ve been pretty good,” Reuterskiold said about her team’s defense before pausing, and then adding, “They’ve been really good this year.” In the second, Cara Goodrich and Sadie Heming both scored , the latter coming home when Pioneer pitcher Gina Scripoch drove a ball into right field. “We don’t get down on ourselves,” Lincoln’s seventh-year coach Bill Kaui said. “We’re confident in a quiet way, and the team knows they’ll pick each other up and rise to the occasion.”
To Pioneer’s credit, the Mustangs kept battling even with the game out of reach. Heming hit her third double of the day to drive in one more run.