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Photo by
Juan Velez.
Cerritos' three game winning streak
was snapped by Compton College on Tuesday
afternoon. |
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In the first 95
meetings between the Cerritos College and Compton
College baseball teams, the Falcons came out on top
89 times, including the last 18 times heading into
the 2009 season. So far this year, the Tartars have
defeated the Falcons 17-3 in their first meeting and
followed that with an 8-3 South Coast Conference
victory at Kincaid Field on Tuesday afternoon. The
loss also snaps a three-game winning streak for
Cerritos, who drops to 12-9 on the year and 5-4 in
SCC play, while Compton improves to 9-12 and 5-4.
The team will close out their series on Thursday in
a 2:30 p.m. game at Compton.
Compton opened up
a 5-0 lead through the first four innings off
sophomore starting pitcher
George
Sanchez (Gahr HS), who saw his
record fall to 4-2. Of the five runs the Tartars
scored off Sanchez, two of them were courtesy of
Cerritos errors, including one by Sanchez, whose
failed pickoff attempt put two runners in scoring
position in the fourth. Ricardo Vazquez responded
with a two-run single with two outs.
The Falcons did
work their way back within striking distance, as
they scored two in the bottom of the fourth and
added another in the fifth. An RBI triple by
freshman designated hitter
Joe Terry
(Long Beach Poly HS) drove in freshman
shortstop
Max
McEleney (Long Beach Wilson HS)
for the first run, while sophomore outfielder
David Neff (John Glenn HS)
singled off pitcher Evander Ledward's for an RBI
single.
In the fifth,
freshman first baseman
Josh Bryan
(La Mirada HS) doubled with one out, while
freshman outfielder
Lemuel
Johnson (Gahr HS) was hit by
and pitch and freshman outfielder
Jake
Mayoral (Rocklin HS) was hit
by a pitch to load the bases. After a fly out,
sophomore third baseman
Brian
Gaylord (La Mirada HS) was hit
by a pitch to force in a run. But Terry struck out
with the bases loaded to end the threat.
The Tartars added
solo runs in the seventh and the eighth inning
(unearned) to close out the scoring. Relief pitcher
Zach Contreras was dominant for Compton, pitching
three-plus innings and allowed just one hit.
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