Cougar Baseball Downs Phoenix College Twice
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
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South Mountain Community College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
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Phoenix College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| Final (10) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | |
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Phoenix College | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 2 |
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South Mountain Community College | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 2 |
PHOENIX ---
The South Mountain Community College baseball team (35-11) defeated Phoenix College 5-0 on April 11 and 7-6 (10 innings) on April 12 in a pair of non-conference games. SMCC broke a scoreless tie in the fifth inning and added insurance runs late as three pitched combined to shutout the Bears in the April 11 victory. In the April 12 game, the Cougars rallied from a 6-3 deficit in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game and won in extra innings on a walk-off, bases-loaded walk.
April 11 Recap
SMCC scored two runs in the fifth and pushed across a run in the seventh, eighth and ninth to post the 5-0 victory.
Raul Garayzar, Alex Urias-Calvillo and Matthew Lighthall combined for a five-hit shutout. Garayzar tossed the first three innings and allowed two hits, and Urias-Calvillo improved to 3-2 on the season with five innings of relief. He allowed five hits and one walk while fanning three. Lighthall got a pair of strikeouts in the ninth to end the game.
Sam Christiansen walked twice, stole two bases and scored two runs, and Carter Richey had a pair of hits. Core Jackson, Kenneth Jimenez and Brian Leon had RBIs, with Jackson and Leon producing sacrifice flies. Karsen Waslefsky went 2-for-2 with a run, and Jaden Miranda scored a run.
Kyle Alexander scored a run and drew a walk, and Evan VanderValk had a stolen base.
April 12 Recap
The Bears struck for a run in the first, but SMCC answered with two in the third. However, Phoenix College scored four runs in the fifth to take a 5-2 lead. Jackson hit a solo home run in the seventh that the Bears matched in the eighth. That set up the dramatic Cougar eighth inning as Dominic Chacon laced a two-out, two-run double to tie the game. In the 10th, the first three Cougars reached safely, and Jimenez drew a walk to give SMCC the win.
Jackson went a perfect 4-for-4 with three runs, two RBIs, two walks and his fourth home run of the season. Jimenez went 3-for-3 with two runs, an RBi, a walk and a stolen base, and Chacon finished with three RBIs as he added a sac fly. Richey went 3-for-5 with an RBI, and Michael Diaz scored a run.
Five pitchers saw time on the mound for SMCC in the win. Brandon Koble started the game and went four innings with four strikeouts, two walks and one earned run. Josaiah Estrella threw an inning of relief, and Nikolas Miller went two frames. Jackson Thomas tossed the eighth inning, and Matthew Martinez improved to 4-2 with two innings of work and four strikeouts.