The
Cerritos College baseball team opened
their first of three games during Spring
Break by travelling to Fresno City
College on Tuesday and posted a 5-3 win.
They followed that with losses to Allan
Hancock College (5-4) and
Cuesta College (14-4) on
consecutive days. The team is now 17-11
and resume South Coast Conference play
on Thursday at East Los Angeles College.
In the
come-from-behind win over Fresno City,
the Falcons scored three runs in the
bottom of the eighth inning after the
Rams took a 3-2 lead with two runs in
the top of the inning. With one out,
sophomore
Trever
Blood (La Mirada HS)
singled and moved to second base after
freshman
George Sanchez
(Gahr
HS) drew a walk. After a pitching
change, Cerritos was able to tie the
game on a throwing error by Rams catcher
Mitch
Karraker, who tried to cut down
Blood off second base on a pick-off
attempt. Freshman third baseman
Pat Radford (Long Beach
Wilson HS) then gave the Falcons
the lead with an RBI single, while
freshman
Tony
Peraza (La Mirada HS)
clubbed a run-scoring double.
Freshman pitcher
Steve
Blanchette (Schurr
HS), who came on with runners at
second and third base in the top of the
eighth and struck out Kevin Lapin for
the third out in the inning with the
bases loaded, worked out of another jam
in the ninth inning to earn the win. He
allowed two hits in the ninth and got
the final two outs with runners and
first and second base, including a
strikeout of pinch-hitter Romeo Newman
to end the game.
In the
loss to Allan Hancock, the Falcons saw a
4-4 tie broken when the Bulldogs scored
a run in the bottom of the seventh
inning after Cerritos tied the game in
the top of the stanza. The Falcons were
leading 3-1 before Allan Hancock scored
three times in the bottom of the sixth
inning against starting pitcher
John Ortega (Downey HS).
Sanchez drove in two runs, while the
team had five different players collect
one hit each.
On the
last day of the trip, it was a seven-run
sixth inning that did in the Falcons,
who were trailing just 7-4 against
Cuesta, but ended up losing,
14-4. A quartet of pitchers allowed 16
hits, with six being for extra bases,
while the defense committed three
errors. On offense, sophomore outfielder
Anthony
Topete (Norwalk HS)
collected three hits and scored twice,
while Blood added two hits.
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