Lathrop freshman golfer Brayden Beckman completed his run to the Western Athletic Conference’s MVP honor on Wednesday, finishing with the third-place score of 82 in the conference tournament.

Mountain House’s Chandler Frahm and Aiden Silva of Beyer were co-medalists with 80s, but Beckman had a large enough lead in the season standings for that to not matter.

Mountain House and Beyer finish as co-champions and will be joined by third-place Los Banos in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV Tournament next Monday at Yocha Dehe. Lathrop narrowly missed the third and final team berth but has three individuals heading to the SJS tourney.

Joining Beckman are Jaden Wall and freshman Raphael Iniguez, who carded a 99 and 105, respectively, in the WAC tournament. Matthew Hammond finished with a 104, and Ashneil Jeet a 116.

SOFTBALL

Oakdale 3, Manteca 1

Lauren Moncada tied the score for Manteca (6-3 Valley Oak League, 15-5 overall) with a solo homer in the top of the sixth inning, but the Mustangs (7-2, 17-6) answered in the bottom half with Presley Barnes’ two-run jack.

Moncada accounted for two of the Buffaloes’ three hits. Nayellys Torres tallied 11 strikeouts in the pitcher’s duel. Oakdale’s Raegen Everett also struck out 11.

Kimball 4, East Union 1

East Union (2-7 VOL, 12-10 overall) jumped ahead in the top of the first inning when Caliyah Lopez tripled and was knocked in by Sienna Owen.

Pitcher Alexa Contreras clamped down from there, finishing with a four-hitter for Kimball (4-5, 11-8). The host Jaguars tied it in the fourth and jumped ahead in the fifth.

East Union’s Mikayla Simpson went the distance from the pitcher’s circle, striking out four while scattering seven hits.

Los Banos 12, Lathrop 0 (5)

Ariana Fuentes and Aubree Martinez had the lone hits for the Spartans (8-5 WAC, 13-7 overall).

Pitcher Maci DeCosta gave up just four earned runs in four innings and struck out three.

Moxie Barton had 12 strikeouts in the two-hitter for Los Banos (11-2, 19-4-1).

Frosh-soph track

VOL Championships

Manteca had the most first-place finishes among area schools Thursday at Kimball High.

Winning lower-level titles were Josiah Martinez (200, 24.46), Mateo Esparza (400, 57.04), Orlando Escalante (shot put, 39-7), Amaya Zavala-Valverde (shot put, 29-6), Gabby Leon (long jump, 16-2) and the 4x100 boys and 4x400 boys relays.

The Sierra girls have league champs in Natalie Ruvalcaba (400, 1:05.51), Arely Serrano (800, 2:47.86), Mackenzie Dorstad (3,200; 14:08.76) and the mile relay.

River Islands came away with two gold-medal winners in Evelyn Thomas (200, 28.58) and Angelina Trigos (triple jump, 30-11.5).

Jacob Thomas of East Union won the 300 hurdles in 50.43.