The Chabot baseball team keeps enjoying magical moments under first-year head coach Paul Wiebens in the tradition-rich program.
First came a second consecutive Coast-North Conference championship, and then the No. 7-seeded Glads (31-10) swept Merced, 6-5 and 4-1, in the 3C2A NorCal Regionals.
Chabot will next host the Super Regional May 9-11, which will pit the Glads, Cabrillo, and Santa Rosa in a double-elimination format. Visiting Cabrillo, seeded No. 3 for the Super Regional, and No. 2 Santa Rosa will start things off playing at 11 a.m. Thursday, with the loser facing No. 1 Chabot at 3 p.m., all at Steve Friend Stadium. Action will continue Friday and Saturday, with the matchups depending on Chabot's result on Thursday.
Anything can happen in the playoffs. Upstart Cabrillo stunned No. 2 Fresno City in the Regionals, capped by a dramatic 11-9 win in 11 innings in Game 3.
Chabot earned two gritty wins to keep its season alive in the NorCal Regionals.
Freshman left-hander Isaac Lucas delivered another sterling effort in the Regional clincher, firing a 2-hitter with no earned runs, eight strikeouts and three walks. Lucas also tossed a 4-hitter with eight strikeouts in a 5-1 win over Skyline on April 25, to nail down a conference co-championship.
Chabot – riding a seven-game winning streak -- opened the Merced series by rallying from a 5-0 deficit for an exciting 6-5 win, scoring four in the sixth and two in the seventh. Freshman TJ Costello got the comeback rolling by bringing in two runs after reaching on an error in the sixth. Liam Forsyth belted a two-run double to cut the deficit to 5-4. In the seventh, Nick Walsh put Chabot ahead to stay with a two-run double, scoring Daniel Behrmann and Raoul Fabian Jr.
Reliever Will Aviles nailed it down with two scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out four. Starter Daniel Hernandez worked seven innings, allowing five earned runs, striking out five and walking five.
In the 4-1 triumph, Fabian Jr. singled home Costello in the fifth. In the sixth, Costello had an RBI double, Forsyth had an RBI sacrifice fly, and Carmelo Rivera had an RBI single, scoring Costello.
Costello had another big game, going 2 for 4 with two runs scored and had the team's lone extra-base hit. Rivero and Fabian Jr. also had two hits apiece.

Super Regional schedule
Thursday:
Game1: #3 Cabrillo vs. #2 Santa Rosa - 11:00am
Game 2: #1 Chabot vs. TBD - 3:00pm

Friday:
1 Game Only:
2:00pm

If 2 Games:
Game 1 - 11:00am
Game 2 - 3:00pm

Saturday:
Game 1: 11:00am
Game 2 (if needed): 3:00pm