{"id":250384,"date":"2026-04-03T18:21:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250384\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:21:41","slug":"oakland-tech-takes-a-loss-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250384\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Tech Takes a Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/oakland\/oakland-tech-bulldogs\/baseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oakland Tech<\/a> fought the good fight in their extra-innings  matchup against <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/piedmont\/piedmont-highlanders\/baseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Piedmont<\/a>  on Thursday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Highlanders by a score of  6-5. The Bulldogs were given a dose of their own medicine in this game as the Highlanders apparently hadn&#8217;t forgotten their  loss the last time these teams played  back in April of 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"IDf3fd320fa1324fc3b0b7a90397142098\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775240501_912_c35eb9a1-800f-405d-956f-852dbefe5ec8.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"ID7fe2dfbc8952485fb3b3cde90312c92b\" style=\"color:#000000;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:12px;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:16px !important;font-weight:500;\" class=\"infosentience-standard-text infosentience-float-left \" tabindex=\"-1\"> Elijah Rucker<\/p>\n<p>04\/02\/26 vs Piedmont203\/20\/26 vs Castro Valley203\/19\/26 @ Arroyo203\/18\/26 vs Head-Royce103\/17\/26 vs Newark Memorial1<a id=\"ID834a50f32e4545529830909a22a2595c\" style=\"color:#212021;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:14px;font-weight:500;text-decoration:none;\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/oakland\/oakland-tech-bulldogs\/athletes\/elijah-rucker\/?careerid=smkut2uicn9n7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">+ 2 more games<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/oakland\/oakland-tech-bulldogs\/athletes\/elijah-rucker\/?careerid=smkut2uicn9n7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Elijah Rucker<\/a> was cooking despite his team&#8217;s loss,   getting on base  in four of his five plate appearances with two  stolen bases and one  run. He is  on a roll when it comes to  stolen bases, as he&#8217;s  now  snagged  at least one in each of the last seven games he&#8217;s  played. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/ca\/oakland\/oakland-tech-bulldogs\/athletes\/gustavo-locher\/?careerid=pfb97995ubi33\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Gustavo Locher<\/a> was another key player,  going 1-for-3 with one  stolen base, one  run,  and one  RBI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\">Oakland Tech&#8217;s defeat dropped their record down to 6-6. As for Piedmont, they now  have a winning record of 5-4-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> Oakland Tech and Piedmont could both be facing uphill battles in their next games considering their disadvantage  in the MaxPreps California Rankings. The Bulldogs (ranked 583rd) will meet Encinal (ranked 150th)  at 4:00  p.m.  on Friday. Meanwhile,  Piedmont will  face off against  Arroyo Grande  at 1:00  p.m.  on Tuesday with a big rank  disadvantage  (513 vs. 63).<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland Tech fought the good fight in their extra-innings matchup against Piedmont on Thursday but wound up with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-250384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}