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The Cerritos
College baseball team picked a bad time for their
bats to go silent. With a chance to move another
game close to leapfrogging over another team in the
South Coast Conference, the Falcons were shut out by
host El Camino College, 5-0 on Saturday. With the
loss, Cerritos is now 10-7 in SCC play and 17-12
overall, while the second place Warriors are now
11-4 and 21-8-1. The Falcons will now play four
non-conference road games over Spring Break and open
at Oxnard College at 2:00 p.m. on Monday in a rain
make-up game from earlier in the season.
In the loss,
Cerritos was limited to just eight hits and had
several chances to get on the board. In a scoreless
second inning, freshman first baseman
Josh Bryan
(La Mirada HS) reached
base on a fielder's choice, followed by a one-out
base hit by sophomore catcher
Paul Hayes
(Bellflower HS). After the second out was
recorded, sophomore second baseman
Brandon
Pesante (La Mirada HS) was hit
by a pitch to load the bases. But Warrior pitcher
Kellen Moen (5-2) got freshman outfielder
Jake
Mayoral (Rocklin HS) to fly
out for the third out.
El Camino took a
1-0 lead off sophomore pitcher
George
Sanchez (Gahr HS) in the third
inning, but had no response, as Moen set down 12
straight batters until a two-out double by freshman
designated hitter
Joe Terry
(Long Beach Poly HS) in the sixgth inning.
But he was stranded there after sophomore outfielder
David Neff (John Glenn HS)
grounded out to end the inning.
In the seventh
inning, the Warriors struck for three big runs, with
the big hit being a two-run double by Kyle Petter
off sophomore relief pitcher
Steven
Blanchette (Schurr HS) for a
4-0 lead. El Camino added another run in the eighth
inning.
Cerritos did load
the bases again in the eighth inning, as sophomore
shortstop
Max
McEleney (Long Beach
Wilson HS), Terry and Neff all singled. But
Bryan was called out on strikes for the third out.
On the day, Terry,
Neff and Hayes each had two hits for the Falcons,
while John Hein (3-for-4, 2 RBI), Jeff Miera
(3-for-4, 2 runs, RBI) and Petter (1-for-4, 2 RBI)
led the way for El Camino.
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