(Tucson, AZ) The Pima Community College baseball team (6-1) closed out its three-game series with Yavapai College on Saturday at the West Campus Aztec Field.
The No. 21 ranked Aztecs dropped the first game of the doubleheader but bounced back to take two out of three from the Roughriders. Freshman Damian Lorta (Desert View HS) closed out the day going 2 for 4 with two RBIs, two runs scored and three walks. Fellow freshman Juan Hernandez (Tucson Magnet HS) went 2 for 7 with an RBI and two runs while freshman Aciel Guillen (Salpointe Catholic HS) also finished 2 for 7 with two runs.
Sophomore Cam Grenert (Horizon HS) and sophomore Owen Myers got the decisions on the mound.
Game 1: Yavapai Roughriders 4, (21) Pima Aztecs 3
The Aztecs scored three runs in the 1stinning but produced just one hit for the rest of the game.
Lorta hit an RBI single to bring in Hernandez to put the Aztecs on the board. With two outs, freshman Nate Shoemaker (Catalina Foothills HS) and sophomore Max Leyva (Tucson Magnet HS) had back-to-back RBI singles scoring Guillen and Lorta respectively as Pima went up 3-0.
The Roughriders scored two runs in each the 2nd and 3rd innings to take the lead for good.
The Aztecs left the bases loaded in the 7th inning to end the game.
finished 1 for 2 with an RBI and a run scored while Shoemaker went 1 for 3 with an RBI. Leyva was 1 for 2 with an RBI and a walk.
Grenert took the loss as he pitched two innings, giving up four runs (three earned) on two hits with three strikeouts and three walks on 61 pitches.
L – Grenert (1-1). 2B: Kruk. SB: Hernandez, MacDonald.
Game 2: (21) Pima Aztecs 7, Yavapai Roughriders 2
The Aztecs scored six runs in the 2ndinning and proved to be plenty as Myers produced a strong outing on the mound.
The Aztecs loaded the bases with no outs in the 2nd inning. Sophomore Mike Jones (Canyon del Oro HS) drew a walk to bring in Hernandez. Sophomore Ramon Martinez followed with a two-run RBI double, scoring Guillen and freshman Adriel Figueroa-Brito to make it 3-0.
Jones scored on a wild pitch and Martinez scored on sophomore Leon Cereceres’ groundout.
Hernandez capped the inning as he grounded out but brought in sophomore Matt MacDonald to make it 6-0.
The Roughriders scored a run in the top of the 5th inning but Lorta responded with a lead-off home run in the bottom of the 5th. Lorta was 1 for 2 with an RBI, a run and two walks. Martinez finished 1 for 2 with two RBIs and a run. Hernandez was 1 for 3 with an RBI and a run.
Myers pitched five innings, giving up one run (one earned) on five hits with seven strikeouts and two walks on 85 pitches. Sophomore Quintin Hennesy (Horizon HS) threw the final two innings, giving up four hits with three strikeouts.
W – Myers (1-0). 2B: Glueck, Martinez. HR: Lorta. SB: Figueroa-Brito.
The Aztecs return to the West Campus Aztec Field on Tuesday for another non-conference doubleheader against Cochise College. First pitch is at 12:00 p.m.
Press Release courtesy of Pima Aztec Athletics – Raymond Suarez
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