Riverside Loses, 10-6, at Golden West to End Season at 25-18
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
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Riverside | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 1 |
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Golden West | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 10 | 11 | 1 |
HUNTINGTON BEACH – Thanks to a six-run fourth inning, the Golden West College (GWC) Rustlers prevailed, 10-6, in game three of the best-of-three series over the visiting Riverside City College (R CC) Tigers men's baseball team at GWC's Fred Hoover Field Sunday afternoon (May 15) in a California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) Southern California Regional second-round playoff series at GWC's Fred Hoover Field.
Riverside City (25-18 overall), the No. 18 seed, struck first in the top of the first inning. With one out, sophomore DH Casey Sheehan (Redlands / Redlands East Valley HS '14) singled and then sophomore LF Michael Darr (Corona / Santiago HS '14) doubled him to third to set the stage for freshman 1B Ryan Mota (Fontana / Kaiser HS '14), who smacked a three-run home run to left field to give RCC a 3-0.
Golden West (27-14 overall), the No. 3 seed in the regional playoffs, posted a pair of runs in the second inning and added a run in the third to tie the game at 3-3 before exploding for six runs (all unearned) and a 9-3 lead.
Sheehan socked a two-run home run on an 0-2 pitch in the top of the sixth to get Riverside City closer at 9-5 before GWC countered with a run in its half of the sixth for the 10-6 final score.
Golden West advances to host the No. 7-seeded Chaffey College Panthers, who edged the host Cuesta College Cougars, two-games-to-one in a best-of-three series beginning Friday, May 20. The No. 4-seeded Cypress College Chargers edged the visiting (No. 17-seeded) Fullerton College Hornets, 5-4, in ten innings to take that series, two games to one, and will host the No. 5-seeded Grossmont College Griffins which swept the No. 9-seeded Bakersfield College Renegades this weekend.
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