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Box Score 2 CLAREMONT, CA. – The Pomona-Pitzer Baseball team split in their home double header against SCIAC opponent La Verne with a 5-4 loss in game one and an 8-2 win in game two on Saturday afternoon at alumni field.
With the split, the Sagehens move to 6-4 on the year and 4-2 in SCIAC play. The Sagehens have also now won both of their opening series against SCIAC schools.
Pomona-Pitzer 4, La Verne 5
The Sagehens were led by David Bedrosian who went 3-4 with one run scored and one RBI in the loss.
The Sagehens jumped out in front in their first at-bats as junior Jeremy Jess banked an RBI double off of the left field wall to give the Sagehens a 1-0 lead.
Sagehens got into a jam in the top of the fourth after walking the bases loaded with no outs in the inning. La Verne got one run off of a sacrifice fly to tie the game at 1-1 but Brett Super settled down and got out of the inning with minimal damage done.
The Sagehens came back in the bottom half of the inning with some offense as Bedrosian doubled home a run and Jack Hanley followed up with an RBI single to extend the Sagehens' lead to 3-1 and chased out the starting pitcher.
The Sagehens added one more in the bottom of the sixth as Harry Deliyannis smacked a solo shot down the right field line to extend the lead to 4-1 but La Verne responded in their next at-bats with a solo homer of their own to bring the lead back down to two runs at 4-2. The Leopards got two more runs in the inning to tie the game at 4-4 heading into the bottom of the seventh.
After being down for the entire game, La Verne took the lead in the top of the ninth after they strung together a few hits to take a 5-4 lead heading into the ninth.
The Sagehens were able to get the tying run aboard in the ninth but La Verne was able to close out game one to even the series at 1-1.
Pomona-Pitzer 8, La Verne 2
The Sagehens were led by Jeremiah Quezada who went a perfect 4-4 in the win with one run scores and one RBI. Kevin Lo and Ryan Nishi each went 3-5 with Nishi getting two RBI's and two runs scored.
La Verne jumped out ahead in game two with the first runs of the game in the top of the first inning after an RBI double and a wild pitch gave La Verne a 2-0 lead.
The Sagehens came back to plate three runs in the bottom of the third. Bedrosian got the scoring going after he smacked a double off of the left center fence to bring in a run for the Sagehens to cut the lead down to 2-1. Pomona-Pitzer followed with RBI's from Deliyannis and Jack Damelio to come back and take the lead from the Leopards at 3-2.
The Leopards and Sagehens then went four scoreless frames until Pomona-Pitzer plated two more runs in the bottom of the seventh off of an error by the Leopards' defense and an RBI double by Quezada to extend the lead to 5-2.
Pomona-Pitzer tacked on three more insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth as Nishi drove home two on a single to left field and Bedrosian followed up with an RBI double to give the Sagehens an 8-2 lead. The Sagehens' pitching staff shut out the Leopards for the final eight innings of the game as Pomona-Pitzer took the season series from La Verne.
The Sagehens will return to action on Saturday, March 7th as they host Rochester for a double header starting at 11:00 a.m.
