Today we spotlight a Northern Calif. team that lost several college-bound senior from its 2014 title-winning team – including an All-American in Johanna Grauer (UCLA) and Stanford catcher Victoria Molina – but didn’t miss a beat this year finishing once again in the national Top 10…

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High School: Amador Valley
City: Pleasanton
ST: Calif.
Head Coach: Teresa Borchard
2015 Record: 24-3
Current Rankings: FlosSoftball: No. 8, USA Today/NFCA: No. 14, MaxPreps: 17
Accomplishments: North Coast Section Div. 1 champions (back-to-back), EBAL League champions with 13-1 record
Championship: beat James Logan 5-1 on June 6
Recent History:

• over the last four years the seniors have had a record of 99-7
• Coach Borchard’s overall record (three years): 73-6

Note: she was an assistant for Coach Julie Marshall, a UCLA All-American for five years before taking over the program. She also runs the Lady Hustle travel ball program

Noteworthy in 2015

• outscored opponents a total of 124 runs to 33
• shut out opponents 8 times
• scored first in 24/27games
• played a total of 178 innings and led for 108 of those
• trailed only 18 innings during the season  

Exciting Victories

• On the way to our EBAL Title and NCS Championship, five of Amador’s victories were by one run.
• Amador Valley also had six last at-bat victories, two of which were walk-offs

Best at Bat of the Season (by Coach Borchard):

“I chose this at-bat for the overall magnitude/importance of the situation and “battling” to achieve a positive outcome!”

“It was the NCS semi-final on June 2 versus Castro Valley. In the fourth inning with our first run in, no one out and runners on second and third, sophomore Jenyce Dutcher came to bat and with an 0-2 count proceeded to work the count full and then hit a sac fly to left scoring Jessica Emde with the second run.”

“This run proved to be the eventual game winner, sending Amador to the NCS Championship.”

Best Assist of the Season (per Coach Borchard):

“This was chosen for overall magnitude/importance of the situation and nature of the play!”

“In the same game, the June 2^nd NCS semi-final versus Castro Valley, we were in the sixth inning and Castro Valley’s No. 4 batter doubled to right field and attempted to stretch it to a triple. Courtney Hennings fired the ball to third on a one-hope to Jenyce who applied the tag for the third out.”

Departing Seniors

“Our seniors — Emily Roskopf, Kate Moore (captain), Courtney Hennings (captain) and Sammy Salustri (captain)— have established a winning tradition at Amador that we will work hard to continue.”

Here’s what they accomplished:

• three-year varsity record:
• 74-6 (total of all league and tournament games)
• 40-2 (league only)
• 13-2 (Michelle Carew Classic)
• three EBAL Titles, two NCS Championships
• won every league home game
• never lost to the same team twice