The article below originally appeared in the San Mateo Daily Journal and is being reprinted with permission.
While the high school baseball and softball teams are jockeying for position atop league and division standings, the local community college teams are in their final week of the regular season with three teams still in the running for conference titles.
The Skyline and College of San Mateo baseball teams both have a shot at clinching a Coast Conference North crown, with Skyline in the driver’s seat. The Trojans are currently tied for first place with Chabot-Hayward with 14-4 records and will have a shot at controlling their own destiny. They’ll host 2-16 San Francisco Tuesday before finishing up the regular season Thursday with a road game at Chabot.
San Mateo, meanwhile, sits a game back at 13-5 and the Bulldogs will get their shot at making a bid for the conference title as they’ll face the two teams above them — CSM hosts Chabot at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and closes with rival Skyline in San Mateo Thursday. A Bulldogs sweep would give them at least a share of the conference crown.
On the softball side of things, San Mateo is vying for the top spot in Northern California after the Bulldogs pulled into a first-place tie with West Valley, both with 11-2 records.
CSM is riding a seven-game winning streak after beating Ohlone-Fremont and Monterey Peninsula last week. The Bulldogs close the regular season by hosting 1-12 Cabrillo Tuesday.
Meanwhile, West Valley ends its regular season against fourth-place San Jose. CSM needs San Jose to pull off the upset because even if the Bulldogs and West Valley finish tied atop the Coast Conference standings, the Vikings would be the higher seed in the regional playoffs by virtue of sweeping the two-game set against San Mateo.
San Jose beat West Valley, 7-6, March 27. The Vikings dropped into the tie with the Bulldogs following a 3-2 loss to third-place Hartnell last Thursday.