Cougar Baseball Defeats Scottsdale CC
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | R | H | E | |
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South Mountain Community College | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 17 | 2 |
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Scottsdale Community College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 3 |
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The South Mountain Community College baseball team (35-14, 27-6 ACCAC) defeated Scottsdale CC 13-5 in eight innings in an ACCAC road game on Saturday, April 12. Sophomore Raul Parada had a perfect day at the plate, finishing 5 for 5 with two doubles, freshman Nuri Todd blasted a grand slam and a triple, and sophomore Michael Caruso tossed 5.1 innings of work to help lift the Cougars to a season sweep of the Fighting Artichokes.
SMCC jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the first inning. With one out, freshman Bryan Lorenz drew a walk, stole second, and moved to third after an error on the play. He scored easily on an RBI double from Parada, who then came home on an RBI double from sophomore Joe Terranova.
With two outs, sophomores Luke Jones and Marcus Romero drew walks to load the bases. Todd cleared them with a grand slam to center, putting SMCC ahead 6-0.
Sophomore Christopher Mata had a two-out RBI single to score Jones in the third, and SMCC added two more runs in the fifth. Freshman Bobby Pierce Jr. tripled with two outs and scored on a three-base hit from Lorenz, who then scored on Parada's second RBI double of the day.
The Fighting Artichokes scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth, but SMCC responded with a run in the seventh on an RBI groundout from Jones to score Parada.
Todd led off the eighth with a triple and scored on an RBI double from Mata. Pierce Jr. concluded the scoring with an RBI double to score Mata.
Parada was 5 for 5 with three RBIs, two runs, two doubles, and one walk, while Todd went 2 for 5 with two runs, four RBIs, a triple, and a grand slam. Mata was 3 for 5 with two RBIs, a run, and a double.
Pierce Jr. finished 3 for 5 with two runs, an RBi, a double, a triple, and a walk, and Terranova was 2 for 4 with a run, an RBI, a walk, a double, and a stolen base. Jones scored twice, walked twice, and stole a base, and Lorenz also scored twice and added an RBI, a triple, and a walk.
Caruso improved to 2-2 on the season with 5.1 innings of work. He scattered six hits, four earned runs, and one walk to go with two strikeouts. Freshman Thomas Peck went 1.2 innings with two hits, one earned run, one walk, and two strikeouts, and sophomore Matt Elliot threw an inning with two K's.