-Blade Contributing Beat Writer Vaquero Baseball

(Signal Peak) - Two more good wins in a home-away series over the weekend against Mesa Community College gives the Central Arizona College Vaqueros an eighteen game winning streak, and everything seems to be going as hoped for, and worked for, with fifteen games left.

With an Arizona Western sweep over Glendale this weekend, both team are squared at the ACCAC top with 21-3 conference records.

Central's eighteen game streak has them at 37-4 overall, and Western's fourteen game winning streak has them at 37-5.

Wow.

The two meet at McSwain Field for a Saturday double header April 16th.

Central Arizona just jumped all over the T-Birds in the Friday game at home with a 12-1 win.

In the away game at the beautiful Mesa facility on Saturday, as ever, the game saw Central answer from 2-0 deficit to score in the top of third inning after Kiko Romero doubled on a two hopper to the left field fence with two out. He was singled in by cleanup hitter Blake Avila.

Mesa managed one more run, but Central rapped in five more for the 6-3 win. In Central's top of the fourth, Vinnie Lagatta led off and tripled and scored on the same play, it was an error officially while Lagatta was rounding third, but so what.

It's still an inside-the-parker.

With one run in, the batter was Romero and out she went for the second run, the next batter Avila almost knocked one out on a long out, Dusty Garcia singled up the middle, and then Chase Valentine hit one out for runs three and four.

I was going to say, all these Valentine extra base hits are great, but can you, just for grins, blast one out?

Crack.

Thank you!

Valentine's first and Romero's seventh gave Central the 5-2 lead and the final was 6-3.

Sam Rochard, Liam Evans, and Matt Wilkinson threw blanks after Tyler Woessner threw his designated five innings and in the end, it was zero walks for Central pitching.

When you stop and think about it, zero walks in nine innings seems almost impossible. Some baseball geeks, errrr sorry, statesticians, have 1.9 walks per nine innings in professional baseball as "excellent", and 2.9 walks per nine innings as "average".

Again, Central has been winning baseball games in an assortement of ways, all ways possible if you will. There doesn't seem to be an area of concern for the Vaquero staff today.

"I really thought Mesa did well in keeping the score down, we had fourteen hits" said head coach Anthony Gilich.

"They bended, but never broke."