ELK GROVE — The Blue Devil junior varsity baseball team was a perfect 4-0 in last week’s Pleasant Grove Easter Tournament.

Davis High opened things with a 2-1 win over Woodland.

Shane Norton, who had singled in the seventh, scored the winning run on a Wolves’ throwing error.

A first-inning single, stolen base and two fly balls scored the only Woodland run off of Davis starter Daniel Martin.

Davis would tie the score in the bottom of the second with a lead-off walk to John Ariola, who came around to score on a passed ball.

In topping Elk Grove, 12-2, Joe Murray’s third-inning single started the onslaught, then Hudson Forrester walked and both came home on Reid Blankinship’s single.

The score was still knotted into the fifth inning, when, with one out, Chris Daunt singled, Forrester doubled him home, a Dickerson single brought in Forrester and Blankinship followed with another single bringing in Dickerson.

Ariola forced Blankinship, and Norton followed with a booming home run to bring the score to 7-2. Martin and Bloomfield both singled and scored with a combination of stolen bases and wild pitches.

In the top of the sixth, Davis scored three more times as pitcher Dickerson held the Herd scoreless for the win.

Davis also beat Jesuit, 9-0.

Devil starter Shane Norton held Jesuit to just one hit, as back-to-back singles by Murray and Daunt, followed by RBI hits by Forrester and Dickerson, got DHS going in the fifth.

Dickerson’s single started a five-run seventh frame. His hit was followed by a walk to Blankinship, a Norton RBI single and run-scoring hits by Martin and Blankinship.

Norton hurled a complete-game, three-hit shutout.

Finally, host Pleasant Grove went down to the Devil powerhouse, 9-1.

A second-inning, lead-off single by Dickerson was followed by a Blankinship RBI single, then a single by Martin and a fielder’s choice.

Starter Manny Guerrero held the Eagles to one run on three hits through four innings. Davis would score two in the fifth; then in the sixth, Davis would score four more runs on RBI singles by Ariola and Martin, and an RBI double by Norton.

Murray, in relief, held the Eagles scoreless in the last three innings.

Davis is 14-2 and 6-0 in Delta Valley Conference play.

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