SAN DIEGO – Point Loma’s girls softball team is making history on Friday afternoon — while the boys baseball team is on the verge of repeating it.
The No. 1 seeded Pointer girls will square off against the No. 2 West Hills Wolf Pack at 4 p.m. on the SDSU Aztec Softball Field for the CIF San Diego Section Div. II championship on May 30.
Since softball became a prep sport in 1976, no Pointer team has won a CIF title, and the girls are ready to end that drought.
Under head coach Billy Hunyady, the team has soared to a 24-6-1 overall record entering the double-elimination playoffs where they have not been defeated in their run through the upper bracket.
After a first-round bye, they defeated No. 9 Scripps Ranch 2-1 and No. 4 Rancho Buena Vista 6-5 and 6-3 to set up today’s battle against the Wolf Pack, winners of the lower bracket.
West Hills (20-9-1 overall) defeated No. 10 Helix Charter 7-1, No. 3 Escondido Charter 7-6, and No. 6 Sage Creek 3-2 to reach the finals.
In previous meetings, West Hills defeated the Pointers 4-0 in February but the Pointers won 4-2 in March.
Team leaders are junior Avery MacPherson with a batting average of .411, followed by senior Annika Isaacson (.403) and freshman Delilah Pearlmutter (.400). Top sluggers are Isaacson with seven home runs, freshman Ella Poulin with six, and junior Ryoko Schroth four.
Sophomore Leyton MacPherson has 26 RBIs with Ryoko Schroth and Poulin right behind with 25 and 24. As a team, the Pointers are batting .318 while West Hills is hitting .308.
Baseball
The Point Loma baseball team is headed to the CIF D-I final after a 2-0 shutout win over Cathedral Catholic.
Point Loma defeated Cathedral Catholic on Wednesday, May 28 after edging the Dons 1-0 in a 10-inning nail-biter on Tuesday, earning a trip to Saturday’s CIF Div. II championship game at 7 p.m. on Ron Fowler Field at USD.
The Pointers, 18-12-1 under head coach Rigo Ledezma, fought hard to reach this spot after losing the first game in the double-elimination tournament, a 2-1 decision to No. 6 La Jolla Country Day, making each game an elimination threat.
From the loser’s bracket, the Pointers got hot, taking down No. 7 Santa Fe Christian 5-1 and La Jolla Country Day 8-5 before their dramatic 1-0 win on May 27 against No. 2 Cathedral Catholic.
As a Western League foe, the Dons recently swept a three-game series with the Pointers by a combined score of 25-13 making Tuesday’s win more special.
That game at Cathedral (19-11 overall), featured a pitching duel between Cathedral starter Jose Partida (8.1 innings pitched, four hits, no runs, two walks, and seven strikeouts) and Pointer starter Marviel Underwood (4 innings pitched, three hits, no runs, one walk, four strikeouts, before reliever Luis Lara replaced him).
The teams battled through the regulation seven-inning scoreless with each team putting runners on base but unable to score.
In the 10th inning, the Pointers scored a run. With junior Kaden Kuhn on the mound for the hosts, the rally began when senior Adrian Gomez surprised the Dons’ defense with a bunt 20 feet down the left foul line and beat the throw to first base.
After he stole second base, senior Druw Frost hit a lazy fly ball that dropped between the onrushing Dons center and right fielders while Gomez sped around third base to score the game’s only run.
Senior reliever Lara, who has been effective all season, put the Dons away in the bottom of the 10th inning to seal the win as Pointer players and fans celebrated the year’s first win over Cathedral.
Lara’s line for the game included six innings pitched in relief, four hits, no runs, one walk, and three strikeouts. In 20 appearances this year, Lara has an ERA of 2.73.
Story updated on Thu., May 29, 2025 at 9:22 a.m. to reflect that the Point Loma baseball team is headed to the CIF D-I final.
