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Box Score 2 CLAREMONT, CA. – The Pomona-Pitzer Baseball team dropped their regular season series against La Verne after they fell in their home doubleheader 3-2 and 5-4 on Saturday afternoon at Alumni Field.
Season Impact: With the losses, the Sagehens fall to 15-15 overall and 6-8 in SCIAC play.
Pomona-Pitzer 2, La Verne 3
The Sagehens were led by Jack Colton who was a bright spot for the Sagehens at the plate going 3-4 with an RBI. Isaac Kim and JC Ng registered the only other hits for Pomona-Pitzer with one each.
Harry Deliyannis got the ball for game one and had a spectacular outing for a loss in his record column as he went a full nine innings, gave up three runs off of eight hits and had seven strikeouts.
La Verne jumped out on top in game one of the doubleheader in the top of the third after a fielder's choice put the Leopards up 1-0.
It took Pomona-Pitzer a few innings to put together a rally against the Leopards' starter but Ng got the Sagehens on the board with an RBI single up the middle to even the score at 1-1.
La Verne scored the go-ahead run in the top of the seventh with an RBI single to left field. The Sagehens were able to get out of the inning as they got the lead runner in a rundown and got the final out of the inning to head into the bottom of the seventh down one run at 2-1. La Verne added to its lead in their next at-bats with an RBI single to take the first multi-run lead of the game.
The Sagehens battled back in the bottom of the eighth as Colton brought the lead back down to one as he singled home Jakobs to head into the ninth back down to a one-run game at 3-2.
Pomona-Pitzer got the tying run on first to lead off the inning but failed to get him into scoring position as the Leopards held off the Sagehens to take game one of the doubleheader.
Pomona-Pitzer 4, La Verne 5
The Sagehens were led by Caleb Millikan who went 3-4 in the loss. Jimmy Legg had two hits while Jakobs, Colton, and Kinney had one. Eamonn Woods got the start and went 3.1 innings before Ethan Collins came in for 2.2 innings of relief work. Ben Cohen and Landon Carter also bridged the gap for the Sagehens while Eric Prough ended up with the loss.
The Leopards jumped out ahead again in game two with an RBI in the top of the first to make the Sagehens play from behind. La Verne doubled their lead with a little small ball as they got a runner on, got him over, and got him in to take a 2-0 lead over the Sagehens in the top of the third.
Kim got the first run of the game home for the Sagehens with a bases loaded ground out to score Legg to cut the lead down to one run at 2-1, but the Sagehens only cashed in one run with back-to-back inning with the bases loaded and less than two outs to still trail 2-1 after the fourth.
Pomona-Pitzer was 1-10 in the game with runners in scoring position before Colton tied the game at 2-2 after his RBI single scored Ng from second. The Sagehens capitalized with their runners on in the seventh and took their first lead of the day as David Bedrosian brought home Kim on a ground out to short to put the Sagehens on top 3-2 heading into the eighth.
The Leopards tried to tie the game after a base hit through the right side looked to give them a chance to score the tying run but Jakobs came up firing from right field and threw a seed to the plate to gun the runner down at home and preserved the one-run lead.
The Sagehens took a one-run lead into the ninth with their closer on the mound, but the Leopards put runners on second and third with no one out in the inning. A play at the plate that should have resulted in the second out of the inning ended up in an error and allowed both the tying and go-ahead run to score in the ninth. The Leopards ended up getting one more across and took a 5-3 lead into the bottom of the ninth.
Pomona-Pitzer had a chance to tie it late after Jackson Fleming got one run across with the tying run on second, but the Sagehens came up short and fell to La Verne in all three games of the series.
Up Next: The Sagehens will next host Cal Lutheran on Friday, April 21st at 3:00 p.m.
