LA VERNE, Calif. — Pomona-Pitzer baseball will play for the SCIAC Tournament Championship tomorrow after defeating CMS 9-7 and La Verne 13-12 Saturday in La Verne.
Season Impact: The Sagehens will take on La Verne again tomorrow, Sunday, May 11, at 12:00 p.m. PT for the tournament title. The two wins put Pomona-Pitzer at 30-14 on the season.
Sagehens 9, CMS 7
In a rematch of Thursday's opening round of the SCIAC Tournament, the Sagehens got their revenge with a comeback 9-7 win over the Stags.
Tanner DeGrazia led the Pomona-Pitzer bats with three RBI after going 3-for-4 from the plate, while
Jimmy Legg added a pair of RBI with a two-run homer to right.
Eli Della Bitta earned the win from the mound while
Justin Zerger posted the save.
Eamonn Woods struck out four after starting from the bump and going 4.2 IP.
Pomona-Pitzer played from behind from the start, as CMS took a 5-0 lead through the first four innings.
Jack Gold then tallied an RBI hit-by-pitch to put the Sagehens on the board, before a two-run DeGrazia single made it 5-3. The Stags, though, extended their lead to 7-3 after adding two in the fifth.
Sammy Lee hit a sac fly in the fifth, before Legg blasted his two-run homer to right field, bringing the Sagehens within a run at 7-6. Berry then singled through the left side to score Lee, tying the game at 7-7 in the seventh.
JC Ng scored on an error later in the frame before DeGrazia hit another RBI single to put the Sagehens up 9-7.
The Pomona-Pitzer defense held strong over the final two innings, with Zerger producing a line out and a pair of groundouts to seal the 9-7 Sagehen win. The win advanced Pomona-Pitzer to the championship round of the SCIAC Tournament, with the Sagehens needing to beat La Verne twice to clinch the title.
Sagehens 13, La Verne 12
Pomona-Pitzer outlasted the Leopards in a thrilling back-and-forth matchup that went 10 innings and lasted nearly four hours. Ng and DeGrazia each tallied three RBI while Will Kinney and
Greg Pierantoni had two.
Ethan Collins earned the win from the bump after coming on in the seventh and striking out three.
The Sagehens jumped out to an early 5-0 lead in the opening frame, with DeGrazia, Pierantoni and Kinney tallying RBI. But La Verne responded with six unanswered runs over the next four innings to go up 6-5.
Ng scored Kinney in the top of the sixth to tie things back up at 6-6. La Verne, though, scored four in the seventh to go up 10-6. But the Sagehens refused to go down, scoring six runs in the eighth to go up 12-10.
Cooper Berry, DeGrazia, Hattenburg and Ng each recorded RBI in the frame.
The Leopards scored two in the bottom of the eighth to tie things back up at 12-12. In the top of the 10th, Ng singled up the middle to score Hattenburg, putting the Sagehens up 13-12. Collins then shut down the Leopards in the bottom of the frame, posting back-to-back strikeouts to seal the 13-12 10-inning win.
Up Next: The Sagehens will compete against La Verne again for the SCIAC Tournament Championship tomorrow, May 11, at 12:00 p.m. PT at La Verne.
