The Long Beach City College baseball team pounded out 16 hits on its way to a 14-2 South Coast Conference win over visiting Los Angeles City College on Tuesday at Joe Hicks Memorial Field. The win snapped the Vikings’ two-game losing streak and keeps them tied for first place in the SCC standings with a 6-3 record (13-10 overall).
Long Beach led 4-2 after four innings before breaking the game open in the bottom of the fifth, with four runs—shortstop Hector Iribe drove in two runs with a single, second baseman Trevor Costin plated a run with his one-out groundout, and catcher Jonathan Keener brought in Iribe with a RBI double. The Vikings put up four more runs in the bottom of the seventh. The big blow was a two-run single by right fielder Randy Guite.
Costin went 2 for 3 with 3 RBI and two runs to lead LBCC at the plate. Iribe (3 for 5, 3 runs), Guite (2 for 5), and pitcher Jared Smith (1 for 4) all had two RBI for Long Beach.
Smith earned the win to improve to 3-0. He scattered seven hits over seven innings and allowed two runs while striking out five. Scott Watson (8th) and Brian Loard (9th) closed out the game with perfect innings and both struck out two of the three batters they faced.
Shortstop Mario Cabello led L.A. City (3-16, 1-8 SCC) at the plate, going 2 for 3 with 2 RBI. Walter Roberts picked up the loss after allowing four runs and nine hits in four innings.
Long Beach returns to action on Thursday (Mar 19) when it travels to L.A. City for a 2:30pm SCC game.
From LBCC reports