Box Score 1 |
Box Score 2 No. 17 SLCC Baseball drops pair of doubleheader contests to Yavapai College
Game 1 Game 2
No. 17 SLCC – 3
No. 17 SLCC – 8
Yavapai – 4 Yavapai – 9
Prescott, AZ—The
No. 17-ranked SLCC Baseball team (3-3) lost a pair of doubleheader games to Yavapai College (6-0) on Wednesday. The Bruins rallied from a 4-1 deficit in game one to climb within a single run at 4-3, but a pop fly with two runners on base in the bottom of the seventh ended the comeback effort. SLCC led 8-2 in game two, but a seven run ninth inning for Yavapai ended the Bruins' hopes for a split.
Bruin sophomore pitcher
Rhett Parkinson (Wellsville, UT) took the loss in game one, allowing four runs, three earned, in five innings of work. Freshman infielder
Robert Grilli (Mississauga, ONT) was 3-for-4 at the plate and freshman outfielder
Zach Watts (West Jordan, UT) was 1-for-3 with a solo home run in the losing effort.
In game two, freshman pitcher
Brady Corless (Spanish Fork, UT) allowed two runs in five innings of work, and fellow freshman pitcher
Wyle Cunningham (Red Deer, ALB) pitched three innings of scoreless relief with five strikeouts and no runs allowed in the losing effort. Freshman pitcher
Connor Williams (South Jordan, UT) took the loss with the seven run ninth by Yavapai.
Sophomore infielder
Sam Goold (St. George, UT) was 3-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs in the day's second game, and sophomore outfielder
Bryan Heward (Ogden, UT) went 3-for-5. Sophomore utility player
Palmer Page (Saratoga Springs, UT) was 3 for 5 at the plate with a home run and two RBIs, and sophomore outfielder
Steven Adam (Tecumseh, ONT) was 2 of 4 batting with a sacrifice fly to bring in a run.
Next up for Head Coach
DG Nelson and the Bruins is a trip to Henderson, NV for the 11
th annual Coyote Slug-out. SLCC will take on a pair of Canadian baseball programs on Friday, Feb. 15, beginning with a matchup against Okanagan College at 11 a.m. The Bruins will take on Prairie Baseball Academy later that day at 2:30 p.m.
