SARATOGA — Alanna Clincy is a cheat code for Willow Glen.

When she’s on the mound, the Rams win. So it’s a luxury this time of year when the Rams can turn to her over and over again.

Willow Glen did it one more time on Tuesday at West Valley College, calling upon its junior superstar to start the top-seeded Rams’ Central Coast Section Open Division semifinal game against No. 4 Capuchino.

And once again, Clincy came through. She pitched a complete game, allowing one unearned run, and drove in the winning run with a two-run double in the fourth inning.

Willow Glen won 5-1, and the Rams will now await the winner of Wednesday’s semifinal between No. 2 St. Francis and No. 6 Salinas. The final is Saturday. Willow Glen is 28-0 this year, and Clincy has picked up 22 wins.

“Having a star pitcher, Division I athlete is extremely huge,” Willow Glen coach Don Spingola said. “Especially when she’s on the mound. We go into every game, the girls go into every game confident.

“Our goal has always been three runs, and we should be good with her on the mound. And not a lot of teams can say that. So we are very fortunate to have her.”

Clincy has given up five earned runs this year, according to statistics on MaxPreps. She has a 0.29 ERA.

So when she comes up to the plate and bashes a two-run double to left-center, that just makes the opponents’ task even more difficult.

“I was very much relieved that I could pitch with some sort of lead,” Clincy said. “It gives me more confidence to go right at the batter and not have to be afraid that they’re gonna hit a home run and they’re ahead.”

Clincy was stellar, giving up just three hits, but Capuchino starter Lola Sierra was even better in the early going. Sierra had a perfect game going into the fourth inning, but Willow Glen was able to get the bats going late.

Clincy broke the ice with her extra-base hit in the fourth, and Maia Mendoza added on with a two-run homer to left in the fifth.

“They were as good as everyone says,” Capuchino coach Tanya Borghello said. “They’re 28-0. So we knew that they were gonna be good, and they proved it.”

Willow Glen has won 100 games in the past four seasons, but the biggest prize in the CCS has eluded them. The Rams have not even reached a CCS title game since 1981.

Clearly, they haven’t been bereft of success — they did win the 2023 NorCal Division II championship, after all. But a CCS Open crown would send a different message.

“It would cement that our senior class is the best class that Willow Glen has seen these past few years,” Clincy said. “It would mean a lot for the school to put Willow Glen on the map as a public school and that we can compete with these other big-name schools.”

Clincy is already a big name. She has a scholarship waiting for her at Cal, and she’s only getting better.

But winning the CCS championship would give all the Rams a new degree of notoriety, and she’s hungry to make that a reality alongside her teammates.

“That was our goal all season, and they’ve strived for that goal,” Spingola said. “I didn’t expect them to go undefeated. I don’t think any of us did. That’s not what we were looking for. This is what we were looking for. This was our mindset. This was our goal, and that was our milestone. So now we have one more to take care of.”