Central Pounds Out 21 Runs-Takes Two From Pima
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
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Pima Community College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 1 |
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Central Arizona College | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | X | 9 | 10 | 2 |
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | R | H | E | |
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Pima Community College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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Central Arizona College | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 2 |
(Signal Peak) - The idea when the day started was to play "our way" head coach Anthony Gilich said.
This probably meant that if you get into a boxing match ten-rounder with Pima, your results are not guaranteed. Pima tends to win by hitting a lot and getting into scraps with opponents and that's how things seemed to go for them in their twenty game winning streak.
The streak came to an end Tuesday afternoon at Signal Peak with Central winning game one their way, then winning game two Pima's way.
"The first game went our way the whole way" said Gilich.
Starter Hunter Omlid (9-0) threw a fairly typical game, all around the plate with command on all pitches, zero walks and five k's, and after 5.2 innings he was relieved by Drew Sommers with two men on base and Central ahead 6-2.
Sommers got the final out with a sit-down in the top of the sixth and Central ripped off six runs in the bottom of the inning for a 12-2 "our way" run-rule win.
Game one was very big for the three-through-six hitters as they all combined for ten hits, eight rbi's, and between them, scored ten times.
It was Dayton Dooney, Kiko Romero, Dusty Garcia, and Jake Jarvis.
Romero walked and singled, hit homeruns in the fifth and sixth innings and drove home three, Garcia singled and tripled scoring twice, and Jarvis singled three times and smashed a three-run homerun to left in the third. Dooney, hitting third, singled solidly twice and scored twice.
Game Two: Hold on to your hats.
Dooney belted a three-run homerun in the bottom of the third to get the Vaqueros a 4-0 lead, and starter Tyler Woessner pitched three straight scoreless innings.
With a couple of hits, and a couple of Central kicks, Pima scored four in the fourth, another in the fifth, and three more in the sixth off Woessner (four earned runs) and this game has turned the Aztecs way.
How to find yet another way to win.
In the bottom of the fifth with two outs, Garcia hit a moon shot over the fence that fell over for a three run homer and it gave Central a brief lead of 7-5.
Pima answered with three in the top of the sixth.
With Pima up 8-7, Central turned to reliever Shane Spencer.
"I told him we just needed a couple of zeros" said Gilich.
That's what Spencer gave them.
Let's quiet this thing down.
Going to the bottom of the eighth, Pima still led 8-7, and Central's first two batters were out.
With two gone in the bottom of the eighth, Seth Beckstead pulled a shot down the third base line which the third baseman made a great play on, but Beck beat it out.
Pinch hitter Hayden Seldomridge then singled and it's first and third with two outs.
Then on an 0-2 count, pinch hitter Vinnie Lagatta ripped a gapper to right center with pinch runner Jaelin Rae trotting home and with Seldomridge racing around third to try and score, Lagatta went for third and was thrown out.
Seldomridge touched home just before Lagatta was tagged and the run counted to give Central a 9-8 lead.
"He really tagged that one" said Gilich of Lagatta's laser.
In the top of the ninth, Central brought in starter Mat Olsen and it was his first career relief appearance at CAC.
In the heart of the Pima order, it was the two, three and four hitter.
Ground-out, strikeout, flyout, ball game.
Sweep.
"He really wanted the ball" said Gilich.
"We had Daniel Davila hot and thought about Spencer coming back as good as he threw. But Olsen only threw five innings on Saturday and their first batter was right-handed" Gilich continued.
"Olsen really only had about five bullpen pitches because everything happened so quickly. But the inning ended and he came out going straight for the mound."
JD McLaughlin not only singled three times and scored, but also made his sixth pitching appearance in the fifth inning with two runners on and one out.
He struck out two batters in between a couple of spiked curve ball "things" that scored runs, but continued the uncanny K/9 statistic of 27.0.
Every one of his outs has been a strikeout, eleven in all.
I don't really know what that means. But I love it.
Central Arizona now has a four game lead over second place Pima, which includes the four-game sweep of the Aztecs.
Ten to go in this regular season.