The Inland Valley Pirates (5-7-1, 4-2) dropped the final game of the three-game set against the South Bay Sliders 4-2 on Saturday afternoon at El Camino College.
The Sliders jumped ahead 2-0 in the first inning and never looked back.
Breion Barron made noise with the bat ripping his first home run of the season.
Jonathan de Marte added an RBI base hit.
Jake Geck tossed six solid inning only allowing six hits and three runs, while striking out five.
The Pirates take on the OC Surf next on Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Cal Poly Pomona.
| Pirates | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Batter | P | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
| 5 | Patrone, A | SS | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .222 |
| 19 | Micketti, M | 1B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .211 |
| 13 | Glass, K | 1B 2B |
2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .100 |
| 8 | de Marte, J | 3B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .200 |
| 31 | Marshall, L | 1B C EH |
3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .391 |
| 10 | Mckenzie, B | RF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .370 |
| 15 | Wright, H | LF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .208 |
| 1 | Vargas, A | C EH |
3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 |
| 21 | Katz, J | CF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .190 |
| 2 | Torres, A | 2B P |
3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .211 |
| 33 | Mckenzie, C | DH P |
2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .400 |
| 28 | Barron, B | DH | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .083 |
| 32 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 6 | ||||
Batting
HR: B.Barron (1).
RBI: J.de Marte (3), B.Barron (1).
Team LOB: 3.
Fielding
A: A.Patrone 2 (16), J.de Marte (6), L.Marshall 2 (7), B.Mckenzie (2), A.Torres 3 (7).
E: A.Torres (1).
FCS: L.Marshall (1).
PB: L.Marshall (1).
PO: A.Patrone (12), M.Micketti 5 (8), K.Glass 2 (6), L.Marshall 3 (22), B.Mckenzie 2 (13), H.Wright 2 (7), A.Vargas 3 (18), J.Katz 3 (4), A.Torres 3 (6).
SBA: L.Marshall 6 (12), A.Vargas 2 (10).
TC: A.Patrone 3 (28), M.Micketti 5 (8), K.Glass 2 (15), J.de Marte (12), L.Marshall 5 (29), B.Mckenzie 3 (15), H.Wright 2 (7), A.Vargas 3 (20), J.Katz 3 (4), A.Torres 7 (14).
| Pirates | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Pitcher | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | ERA |
| 3 |  Geck, J |
6.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5.02 |
| 33 | Mckenzie, C | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5.63 |
| 2 | Torres, A | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3.00 |
| 8 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | |||