In a field of teams as tough as the Diablo Athletic League Foothill Division, sometimes all it takes is a special performance from an elite player to win a game.

Clayton Valley got that from Elliott Webb on Tuesday.

The senior pitched five scoreless innings, striking out five and giving up just three hits to lead host Clayton Valley to 6-1 win over Alhambra in a league opener in Concord. Webb also was 2 for 2 with a double and scored a run.

“To have somebody go out and really attack the zone and be somebody that’s a lot of fun to play defense behind, it keeps everyone in the game,” Clayton Valley coach Jesse Medrano said. “To have his success with the bat as well is an added bonus. Elliott is a heck of a guy to have around the clubhouse, and he did a great job of keeping the team engaged.”

Clayton Valley, ranked 15th in the latest Bay Area News Group Top 20, snapped its two-game skid while improving to 13-2.

“We wanted to score early and try to bury them,” Webb said. “While I was on the mound, I wanted to keep them off the bases and hold them to zero.”

The Ugly Eagles got out to a slow start, but found their groove in the third inning. Webb started the frame with a leadoff double and then scored when junior Vince Della Santina hit a single on a line drive to center field.

After scoring another run in the fourth, Clayton Valley blew the game open in the fifth.

Mateo Perez’s sacrifice fly to center field scored Josiah Morris. Two batters later, Jack Campbell was walked with the bases loaded, bringing in Fabian Gomez to make the score 4-0.

Despite having just five hits, Alhambra had a chance for a late rally.

The Bulldogs loaded the bases to open the sixth inning after Shane Cowperthwaite walked on five pitches. Though sophomore Ismael Rivera Parra scored in the next at-bat, it came on a double play that sapped Alhambra’s momentum.

“We could have done a lot better,” Alhambra coach Gabriel Sahagun said. “We could have hit a lot better and we could have had better situational awareness.”

Clayton Valley shut the door on Alhambra in the next inning, scoring twice to stretch the lead to five.

The teams will finish their two-game series in Martinez today. Arizona commit Cameron Millar, who has yet to give up an earned run this season, could get the start for Alhambra, according to Sahagun.

Boras Classic North tournament >> Several of the Bay Area’s top teams traveled to Sacramento to play in the Boras Classic North — one of the premier baseball tournaments in the state.

St. Ignatius has been dominant through the first two rounds, defeating Oak Ridge 8-4 and Benicia 7-2. The Wildcats will play the winner of the Archbishop Mitty-St. Mary’s-Stockton in the tournament semifinals today.

Serra — the top team in the Bay Area News Group rankings — won its first-round game against Pleasant Grove on Monday but lost to Rocklin 6-0 later in the day.

In its first-round game against Franklin, De La Salle erased a three-run deficit to win 6-4. The Spartans then fell to Whitney 3-2 in the second round.

No. 6 Pittsburg 3, Freedom 1 >> Pittsburg opened Bay Valley Athletic League play with a gritty win over Freedom.

Senior pitcher Diego Deluna gave up an earned run while striking out seven and allowing four hits in a complete-game performance. Pittsburg will continue the two-game series at home today.

No. 9 Dublin 6, No. 19 Livermore 5 >> Junior Kolby Breining hit a walk-off sacrifice fly in the ninth inning to lift Dublin to its fifth straight win.

Livermore, fueled by a bases-clearing double from Hayden Maas, scored five in the second inning.

The Gaels responded with a three run third to cut the deficit to two.

In the fifth, Matthew Phelps tied the score when Livermore committed an error, and the game eventually went into extra innings.

Dublin junior Ryan Gonzalez opened the ninth with a triple, setting up Breining’s winning sacrifice fly to right field to clinch the East Bay Athletic League victory.

Dublin improved to 15-2, 4-2. Livermore dropped to 11-5, 3-2.

Softball

No. 9 Mills 10, Gunn 0 >> Mills blanked Gunn in five innings behind a no-hitter from junior Hailey Pedroza.

Pedroza struck out five and walked one. All nine players in the Vikings’ lineup had a hit and sophomores Lucy Esquivel and Jazzy Maske each finished with two RBIs.

No. 15 San Ramon Valley 7, No. 12 Livermore 1 >> San Ramon Valley sophomore Lila McLeod put on a pitching clinic, leading the Wolves to an EBAL win over Livermore at home.

McLeod struck out five and allowed just three hits and no earned runs. SRV junior Kayden West was 2 for 3 and knocked in a run.

The Wolves (9-6-2, 3-3) played Monte Vista on Wednesday. Livermore (12-5, 4-2) will play at Amador Valley on Friday.

The King’s Academy 3, Hillsdale 0 >> TKA blanked Hillsdale to remain in a tie for first place with Woodside in the Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division.

Junior pitcher Katia Nesper threw a two-hitter and struck out 16 in the win.