CIF-SS Playoffs
Tuesday’s Baseball semifinals
Division 3
Walnut 4, San Dimas 1
Redondo Union 6, Bishop Amat 2
Tuesday’s Softball semifinals
Division 2
Mission Viejo 2, South Hills 0
Division 3
La Serna 1, Bishop Amat 0
Division 5
St. Bonaventure 2, San Dimas 1, 8 innings

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COMING: Highlights and interviews of Walnut’s win posted later tonight
WALNUT SHOCKER: San Dimas’ hopes of becoming the first CIF-Southern Section baseball team to go undefeated since Ontario in 1991 ended in the Division 3 semifinals by a hungry Walnut team that is determined to write its own script.
Walnut shocked USA Today No. 1-ranked San Dimas, 4-1, on Tuesday, ending the Saints’ hopes for a perfect season and possible national title after it brought a 31-0 record into the semifinals.
Walnut (21-7-1), which started 3-7-2, hasn’t lost since, winning its 18th straight to advance to Saturday’s championship at San Manuel Stadium in San Bernardino against Redondo Union, a 6-2 winner of Bishop Amat.

BISHOP AMAT LOSES REMATCH: A right-at-home feeling has the Redondo High baseball team headed somewhere the Sea Hawks have never been: a CIF Southern Section final.
In a rematch of last year’s semifinal, Redondo defeated host Bishop Amat 6-2 in Tuesday’s Division 3 semifinal to advance to Saturday’s championship game against Walnut.
“We went out and looked confident from the very start,” Redondo coach Jeff Baumback said. “We jumped on their pitcher and didn’t look nervous.

SAN DIMAS SOFTBALL LOSES HEARTBREAKER: It’s hard to say which was more improbable.
Was it top-seeded St. Bonaventure scoring its first run of Tuesday’s CIF-SS Division 5 semifinal two outs from elimination?
Or San Dimas producing a home run with its only hit to leave the infield against ace Cielo Meza, who struck out 21 batters?The feats cancelled each other out and it was Meza who earned the defending CIF champions a return trip to the finals with an eighth-inning solo home run for a 2-1 win.

SOUTH HILLS GIVES NO. 1 A BATTLE: Tuesday’s CIF-SS Division 2 softball semifinal featured two of the best high school pitchers in the country in South Hills’ Natalie Lugo and Mission Viejo’s Taylor McQuillin.
Both were stellar, combining to strike out 31 batters.However, McQuillin and the Diablos proved why they have been the nation’s No. 1-ranked team all season long.Camryn Ybarra scored on a South Hills error in the fourth inning and freshman Terra McGowan hit a solo home run in the top of the seventh as Mission Viejo (30-0) punched its ticket to the final with a 2-0 victory.

THIRD TIME NOT A CHARM FOR AMAT SOFTBALL: For the third year in a row, the La Serna High School softball team has ended Bishop Amat’s season in the playoffs.
But this game was much bigger, with a spot in the CIF-SS Division 3 championship game on the line.
The Lancers, behind the four-hit pitching of senior Jamie Wren, defeated host Bishop Amat, 1-0, in a semifinal to get a return trip to the title game. La Serna lost to St. Paul, 2-1, last year.