2019 SBCC Baseball News
SBCC’s Ian Churchill has been selected as CCCAA State Pitcher of the Year in baseball.
Glendale got two strong pitching performances and its offense came alive on Saturday in a pair of baseball wins that ended SBCC’s season. Glendale won 16-2 to even the best-of-3 Southern Cal Regional series 1-1, then pulled out a 4-3 triumph in a tense rubber game.
Jacob Bravo belted a three-run homer to cap a five-run fourth inning on Friday and Patrick Caulfield went wild at the plate and on the bases as SBCC routed Glendale 10-4 in the opener of a best-of-3 Southern Cal Regional baseball series at Stengel Field.
SBCC sophomore Ian Churchill was selected Pitcher of the Year for WSC North baseball and Jeff Walker was the co-Coach of the Year.
SBCC was seeded 13th in the Southern Cal Regional baseball playoffs on Sunday and will hit the road for a best-of-3 series at No. 4 Glendale.
SBCC used efficient hitting and effective pitching from its two aces – Ian Churchill and Conner Roberts – to down Moorpark 9-4 on Thursday and secure its third WSC North baseball title in the last five years.
Dylan Porter got SBCC started on Tuesday at Pershing Park and Jack Aldrich played the finisher role perfectly as the Vaqueros shut down Moorpark on four hits in a 5-1 baseball victory.
Jacob Bravo drove in the go-ahead run with a double in the seventh on Thursday and Mason Metcalfe pitched three solid innings for his first college win as SBCC rallied to beat Pasadena 4-3 in a non-conference baseball game at Pershing Park.
SBCC went 1-1 on Wednesday, scoring four runs in the 12th inning to win a suspended baseball game 9-5 and then getting outslugged by L.A. Pierce, 12-7, at Pershing Park.
Nicholas Prainito drilled a solo homer in the 10th inning to snap a scoreless tie on Tuesday and SBCC went on to blank Pasadena City 2-0 in a non-conference baseball game at Jackie Robinson Field.
SBCC built a comfortable 11-4 lead in the fifth on Saturday at Pershing Park, then hung on for an 11-9 baseball win over Oxnard.
SBCC surrendered a 10-3 lead, then rallied to tie Friday’s baseball game at L.A. Valley 16-16 with five runs in the eighth, only to see the Monarchs score four in the bottom of the eighth to pull out a 20-16 non-conference victory.
Catcher Alonzo Rubalcaba went 4-5 on Thursday and Jake McBride pitched the last five innings as SBCC downed Oxnard 7-3 for its fifth straight baseball win.
Nicholas Trifiletti delivered a clutch two-out, two-run single in the fifth on a windy Tuesday and three SBCC pitchers combined on a four-hitter as the Vaqueros beat Cuesta 4-2 to move into second place in the WSC North baseball race.
Ian Churchill didn’t start Saturday’s key WSC North baseball game at Cuesta but he showed his flair as a finisher. The sophomore left-hander held the Cougars to two runs (one earned) on four singles in the last seven innings of SBCC’s 4-2 win in San Luis Obispo.
After a rocky first three innings, SBCC settled down on Thursday at Pershing Park and rallied for a 6-5 walk-off baseball win on Tommy Holguin’s bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth.
