-Blade-Contributing writer Central Arizona College Baseball

(Coolidge) - Just for today, it's not about being undefeated.

It's really about numbers now. And maybe not what you might think.

Here's the greatest number:

9.7 to 2.4

In the current season-opening 30 game winning streak, the Central Arizona College Vaqueros are winning each game by an average of 9-2.

Central traveled to Mesa Community College and took another double header with wins of 16-2 and 13-2 as Hunter Omlid was Hunter Omlid (7-0) in game one, and Tyler Woessner was Tyler Woessner in game two (7-0).

Omlid threw the complete game (seven innings) five-hitter with one walk and seven strikeouts in the first game, and Central ripped 12 hits including six doubles with a 16-2 win.

Preston Godfrey hit his team-leading sixth homerun, catcher Ryan Grabosch drove in six runs with two doubles, and JD McLaughlin, Dusty Garcia, Devon Dixon, and Jake Jarvis each doubled.

Central led 10-2 with fivers in the top of the first, third, then added yet another in the seventh.

Offensively, it seems like a barrage of extra base hits and timely smashes this season, at times almost unreal, but yet when you look at national statistics, there are some whopping numbers out there in JUCO Divsion 1.

Here's a dose:

While Central seems to be popping them out with 34 homers on the year, the #3 team in the country in Walters State currently has 73. Central is 27th in homeruns.

OK, so what can stop offenses (there are more besides Walters State) like that?

Pitching.

The Vaqueros lead the nation with a 2.42 ERA.

This year is starting to tell a story. But let's not get ahead here. My bad.

Backed with an 8-0 lead after five innings, game two starter Woessner held his end of the deal again with five shutout innings and seven strikeouts. Central took game two 13-2.

This time it was bombs from catcher Seth Beckstead and Hayden Seldomridge, another triple from McLaughlin (the nations leader with 7), two more doubles from Kiko Romero, Jarvis had THREE doubles to make it four for the DH, and Dayton Dooney yet another.

Central Arizona College is currently fourth in the NJCAA with 125 extra base hits.

Another dose:

The Vaqueros are 36th in team batting average with a fairly dynamic .325 batting average, but the nation's leader in Johnson County is hitting .437.

.437???

To repeat this year, it will be no walk on the beach.

So back to today (my bad again), the bottom line is that, Central is winning games by an average of 9-2 scores, and you can't single anyone out as the outright team leader on this 2021 team, which is probably a coach's dream.

It's 30-0 for Central and you can talk about it all day but somehow when you see it in print and remind yourself that thirty wins is quite impressive, it's even more impressive that the team hasn't fallen short in runs, not even once.

How can that be in baseball?

Central is away from the Big House until April 10th with a meet-up against Arizona Western.

This weekend, Central jumps on the Arrow Charter for two at Phoenix College, currently the ACCAC's tenth place team.