The Half Moon Bay Cougars baseball team scored 3 points and limited the visiting Menlo-Atherton Bears to 2 in the Cougars league victory on Wednesday.

The Cougars (7-18) will now prepare for their match against Menlo-Atherton (Atherton, CA). The Bears go into the Peninsula match with a 14-11 record. In their last match, Menlo-Atherton was edged by Half Moon Bay (Half Moon Bay, CA), 3-2, in a league match.

The Bears (14-11) will now prepare for their match against Half Moon Bay (Half Moon Bay, CA). The Cougars go into the Peninsula match with a 7-18 record. In their last match, Half Moon Bay edged Menlo-Atherton (Atherton, CA), 3-2, in a league match.

Half Moon Bay rallied from a 2-0 deficit, scoring one run in the sixth and two runs in the bottom of the seventh to defeat visiting Menlo-Atherton 3-2 Wednesday afternoon. The defeat, M-A’s fourth straight, dropped the Bears to 14-11 overall and 8-5 in league play with one game remaining in the regular season. The game was largely a pitchers’ duel between Half Moon Bay junior Julian Garcia and M-A senior Patrick Moriarty—both of whom shut out the opposition over the game’s first five innings. M-A finally broke through in the top of the sixth, scoring twice on a run-scoring double by catcher Jeff Keller and Chace Warren’s RBI single. Half Moon Bay answered with a run in the bottom of the sixth on three singles, including a run-scoring hit by junior David Moody. The Cougars led off the bottom of the seventh with a single by Alex Weigandt, who advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt. Junior Tony Carlevaris then tied the game 2-2 with an RBI single. After Kyle Zirbes relieved Mo