ORANGE, CA. – The Pomona-Pitzer Baseball team came away with the series win over CMS in the Sixth Street Rivalry series with a road doubleheader split coming away with a 5-0 win and a 4-3 loss on Sunday evening at Hart Park.
Season Impact: With the split, the Sagehens improved to 10-4 overall and 2-1 to start SCIAC play.
Pomona-Pitzer 5, CMS 0
The Sagehens were led by
JC Ng who had the only multi-hit game for the Sagehens going 2-4 with a run and an RBI with his fifth home run of the season.
Jimmy Legg,
Isaac Kim,
Jack Gold,
Tanner DeGrazia,
Nate Jakobs and
Matthew Nishimura also registered hits with Nishimura also hitting a home run, his first of the season.
Hannoh Seo got the ball for game one of the doubleheader and pitched a beautiful game against the Stags with 7.2 innings of scoreless baseball giving up just four hits and striking out 14 batters for the win.
Ng got the Sagehens going early with a solo shot to start the game to put the Sagehens up 1-0 early. Jakobs doubled the lead in the following inning with an RBI double to give Seo a two-run cushion early in the game until the Sagehens plated three runners in the fourth as Nishimura blasted a two-run homer to left and Legg followed with an RBI single to make it 5-0 through four innings of play.
The Stags had no answer for Seo on the mound along with no errors by the Sagehen defense allowed Pomona-Pitzer to already take the series with a win in game one of the doubleheader.
Pomona-Pitzer 3, CMS 4
The Sagehens only registered two hits in the final game of the series as Ng went 1-3 and Jakibs went 1-1 with two walks in the loss.
Ethan Collins got the start and went four innings before
Jack Wiessinger and
Wade Lawson made appearances out of the pen.
Despite not having the firepower on offense in the final game of the series, the Sagehens did jump out in front of CMS early in the game as Jakobs doubled home Gold in the second and Kim brought home another run with a sacrifice fly to put the Sagehens up 2-0 through three innings.
Pomona-Pitzer extended its lead in the top of the fifth from a passed ball to make it 3-0, but the Stags had a big bottom half of the fifth with four runs off of four hits to take their first lead of the series at 4-3.
The Sagehen bats couldn't get going late in the ballgame to complete the sweep as CMS was able to hang on to take one game of the Sixth Street Series.
Up Next: The Sagehens will turn around and host Adrian on Monday, March 4
th at 2:00 p.m.