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Pitching runs out of gas in loss to LA
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Cerritos College freshman pitcher
Nick
Quezada (Mayfair HS) was
looking to throw his second straight complete
game on Tuesday when he went out to face Los
Angeles Harbor College in a South Coast
Conference game on Tuesday afternoon. He was
battling a 3-3 tie with the Seahawks heading
into the top of the ninth inning, but a single,
walk and hit batter loaded the bases and caused
his removal from the game. Sophomore
Skye Severns (Claremont HS)
allowed all three runners to score and the
Falcons went on to lose a 6-3 decision. Severs
saw William Loza drive in two with a base hit,
while a wild pitch allowed the third run to
score. Cerritos (7-11, 3-4) will now host Long
Beach City College at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday in
the start of the second round of conference
games, which are home-and-home series.
The Falcons had their chances to score, but left
nine runners on base. They didn't help their
cause on defense, as the team committed four
errors, which led to the first three LA Harbor
(7-11-1, 4-3) runs. In the fourth inning,
Cerritos had runners on first and second base
with one out. Due to a construction company
cutting the power lines that fed the scoreboard,
it led to sophomore
Jacob
Eaton (Calvary Chapel HS)
getting picked off when took off to second base
on ball three, after being told by his first
base coach that it was a full count. Freshman
Tim Soonthorngarun (John Glenn
HS) then drew a walk, which would have
loaded the bases.
On top of that, after three straight hits led to
the Falcons tying the game at 2-2, as freshman
catcher
Vince
Perry (Cypress HS) drove
home Eaton. But the next three batters struck
out to end any threat of more offense. They did
the same in the seventh inning, as a bases
loaded sacrifice fly by Soonthorngarun drove in
sophomore
Adam
Peacock (La Mirada HS).
But Perry fouled out to end that threat.
Quezada (2-3) was cruising in the innings that
the defense didn't put him in trouble, and wound
up striking out nine in his eight-plus innings
of work. By contrast, the Seahawks used six
pitchers on the day, with Abraham Ramirez (1-0)
picking up the win, while Scott Livergood earned
his second save.
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