Baseball Drops Decision to SBCC After Yielding Big Inning
The VC baseball team dropped a 9-2 decision to Santa Barbara on Saturday at Pershing Park, undone by a seven-run sixth inning. The Pirates stayed within reach through five frames after surrendering only a solo home run in the first, but the Vaqueros broke it open in the middle frames and never gave VC a chance to recover. Grant Rodriguez drew a pair of walks and scored both Pirate runs in the game while Will Kaczynski had a quality start on the mound allowing just one run through five innings.
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The VC baseball team dropped a 9-2 decision to Santa Barbara on Saturday at Pershing Park, undone by a seven-run sixth inning. The Pirates stayed within reach through five frames after surrendering only a solo home run in the first, but the Vaqueros broke it open in the middle frames and never gave VC a chance to recover. Grant Rodriguez drew a pair of walks and scored both Pirate runs in the game while Will Kaczynski had a quality start on the mound allowing just one run through five innings.
SBCC took a 1-0 lead in the first on a solo home run. From there, Ventura kept the game close into the sixth before the decisive rally. Santa Barbara sent seven runs across in the inning.
VC finished with five hits, six walks and no errors, but could not generate enough timely offense as Ventura left eight men on base.
The Pirates broke through in the seventh. Lucas Martinov drove in VC's first run with an RBI single, trimming the deficit to 8-1. Santa Barbara answered with another run in the eighth.
Ventura added its final run in the ninth when Nate Lajole produced an RBI groundout, accounting for the 9-2 final.
After a week off for Spring Break, the Pirates will return to action on Saturday Apr. 4 at Los Angeles Valley.