Central.

Western.

Cochise.

Yavapai.

It was set before the start of Saturday's doubleheader at Yavapai, just a matter of what the seeds would be. Central Arizona College won the regular season title by two games with a sweep of Yavapai, which left Arizona Western as the #2 seed, Cochise as the #3, and Yavapai as the #4.

The JUCO Region 1's start Thursday with Central hosting a best-of-three, at home this time, against Yavapai. Game one starts at 2PM at McSwain Field.

"It's a tough place to play" said head coach Anthony Gilich about Yavapai's home field.

"Cochise has a tough place to play also, and they're both in, so it's nice to be home to start."

It didn't seem TOOOOOO tough as the Vaqueros hit five homeruns with only seven hits and took game one 15-5.

Shane Spencer won his tenth game of the year with only one loss.

"He threw pretty well" said Gilich.

"We were happy with how he threw. It's a tough place to pitch."

Spencer threw four and Liam Evans threw the fifth in a five inning run-rule game, being as the first games of doubleheaders are seven innings. Game two was a seven inning run-rule, so not bad.

A double header with only having played twelve innings.

And scoring thirty runs.

Central started game one with five runs including a grand slam from seventh hitter Tyler Griggs. All of Central's runs in this game came from homeruns.

After Griggs' granny, Kiko Romero hit a three-run homer, Ashtin Webb hit a solo homer, then Kiko with ANOTHER three run homer, and Ryan Ball also ripped a three-run homerun in this game.

Speaking of Ball, Gilich piped up:

"You know I don't think I've ever as head coach here had two freshmen hit at least eight homeruns."

Ball hit eleven this year and the other freshman was Blake Avila, who hit eight.

Game two starter Tyson Heaton threw well up there in his four-and-a-third, striking out seven and giving up four hits. In relief, it was Matt Wilkinson coming in with a man on second, striking out his first two, and ending up with four K's, no hits or runs allowed, then Sam Rochard struck out two of his three to end the sweep with a 15-3 win.

It was a really tight baseball game, tied at three after five innings, until a seven-run top of the sixth for Central, and a five-run top of the seventh.

In the sixth, the Vaqueros had eleven batters, seven after two were out, which included two Devon Dixon hits, a Trey Newman out of the park (this time) homerun, and rbi's from Jaylin Rae, Kiko, Chase Valentine, and Avila.

The post-season starts Thursday.

And you never know.

Carry on regular season champs!