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| 05.06.07 - Vanezza Martin Del Campo hit her second home run of the playoffs Sunday afternoon to help Cerritos advance to the Super Regional next weekend at Nancy Kelly Field. |
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The powerful bats continued to come through for the Cerritos College softball team on the second day of the Southern California Regional Playoffs. The Falcons (32-9-1), winners over Grossmont College (24-9), 9-0 in six innings on Saturday, needed only five innings on Sunday to post a 10-1 win. The series victory advances the #4-seeded Cerritos team into the Super Regional next weekend against Riverside Community College, who needed three games to defeat San Diego City College. The 6th-seeded Tigers (35-16) and the Falcons played three times this season, with Riverside winning twice. The next round of the playoffs will also be a best two-out-of-three series and will take place at Nancy Kelly Field next Saturday and Sunday.
After a quick first inning, the Falcons put five runs on the board in both the second and third innings to jump out to a 10-0 lead and finished off the Griffins in five innings. In the first game of the series, Cerritos hit four home runs and added two more in the series clincher.
Freshman second baseman Vanezza Martin Del Campo (St. Joseph HS) led off the top of the second inning with a solo home run, her ninth of the season and second in as many days. With one out freshman first baseman Kim Price (Cerritos HS) drew a walk before the next four batters singled, with the big hit being a bases loaded two-run base hit by freshman outfielder Amber Cardona (Schurr HS). Freshman catcher Nadine Garcia (Mayfair HS) picked up an RBI on a sacrifice fly, while the fifth run came on a base hit by Martin Del Campo, with freshman shortstop Jenel Guadagno (Warren HS) getting thrown out at the plate for the third out of the inning.
It was more of the same in the third inning, as freshman designated hitter Charlee Cox (Warren HS) led off with a double, with pinch-runner Korrin Soldan (Katella HS) moving to third base on a base hit by Price. Freshman third baseman Katie Colln (Mayfair HS) drove in the first run of the inning with a base hit the opposite way, while Cardona picked up her third RBI of the game with a run-scoring single. Guadagno equaled Cardona's game total with a three-run blast over the center field wall for her second home run of the season and second in the series.
Freshman pitcher Jessica Navarro (South Gate HS) went hitless in the game, going 0-for-2 and was walked twice. But, she did pick up her 27th pitching win of the season to tie the single-season record, which she now shares with Estella Gutierrez, who also won 27 games in 1987. Navarro limited the Griffins to just five singles, with their lone run coming on a base hit by LeeAnn Stroud in the bottom of the third inning.
SUPER REGIONAL PAIRINGS
(12) Golden West (23-18) @ (1) Mt. San Antonio (47-4)
(8) Bakersfield (31-13) @ (2) Cypress (46-4-2)
(7) Palomar (26-21-2) @ (3) Antelope Valley (38-7-2)
(6) Riverside (35-16) @ (4) CERRITOS (32-9-1)
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