Riverside Improves to 10-0 with 8-5 Home Win over Western Nevada Sunday

RIVERSIDE -- Logan Griffin singled to drive in the go-ahead run and came around to score an insurance run to lift the Riverside City College (RCC) Tigers baseball team to an 8-5 nonconference home win Sunday afternoon (Feb. 15) over the visiting Western Nevada College (WNC) Wildcats at the Evans Sports Complex.

In the botttom of the sixth inning, Griffin, a sophomore CF from Apple Valley - Oak Hills HS, singled through the right side to drive in sophomore 2B Austin Monte (Corona / Santa Ana - Mater Dei), who had walked, stole second and advanced to third on a wild pitch, to give Riverside (10-0 overall) a 6-5 lead. Griffin advanced to second on a groundout, advanced to third on a passed ball and then scored on a RBI single by freshman SS Brody Weiss (Denver. CO / Regis Jesuit HS). Weiss later scored on a wild pitch to give the Tigers the final 8-5 win.

Griffin went four for five with one run and two RBI and Weiss went three for five with three runs and one RBI to account for the bulk of the Tigers' 11-hit attack.

Sophomore starting RHP Angel Delgado (Beaumont / Beaumont '13) went the first 5.2 innings before leaving with a no decision. Freshman LHP Dallas Burk (Big Bear / Big Bear HS) closed out the sixth and seventh innings (1.2 innings total) and allowed only two hits and one walk to pick up the win and improve to 2-0. Freshman RHP Octavio Lara (St. John Bosco HS) pitched the final 1.2 innings to notch his first save.

For Western Nevada (6-5 overall), sophomore CF Jake Bennett (Forest Grove, OR / Forest Grove HS) went three for four with two RBI and sophomore 1B Corey Pool (Beaverton, OR / Southridge HS) went two for four with two runs and one RBI including a towering solo home run to center field (410 feet away) to lead off the top of the sixth inning. It was the first roundtripper yielded by RCC pitching this season.

Sophomore RHP Thomas Kerr (Olympia, WA / Capital HS) came on in relief in the bottom of the fifth and pitched 1.1 innings, allowed two hits, four runs (three earned) and three walks to get tagged with the loss (1-2).
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Riverside, which is in the midst of its best start since i1 won 13 in a row to open the 2003 campaign and longest win streak since the middle of that same 2003 season when it won 11 in a row, returns to action on Tuesday, Feb. 17, when it visits the Mt. San Antonio College Mounties in Walnut at Mazmanian Field in a 6 p.m. start.

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