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The Inland Valley Bucs (8-6, 2-4) continued a tough stretch losing their sixth time in the past seven games. They fell 7-5 to the Arroyo Seco Sentinels Tuesday night at Cal Poly Pomona.

The Sentinels took a 1-0 lead in the first and extended it to 3-0 in the second.

The Bucs got two back in the third on a two-run single by Kyle Jackson cutting the deficit to 3-2.

Arroyo Seco answered immediately with two in the fourth to make it a three run margin once again at 5-2.

Inland Valley plated one in the fifth to make it 5-3 on an RBI single by Justin Gomez.

The Sentinels scored twice more in the seventh increasing their lead to 7-3.

The Bucs came back with two in the bottom of the seventh, but were not able to make the complete comeback.

Bucs
#	Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
5	Olvaney, T	3.2	8	5	5	2	2	6.63
99	Goytia, M	3.1	3	2	2	0	4	3.18
34	Hopkins, J	2.0	1	0	0	1	1	3.38
		9	12	7	7	3	7

Batting
2B: K.Jackson (2).
HP: G.Vargas (2).
RBI: K.Jackson 2 (5), J.Gomez 2 (13).
SF: J.Gomez (1).
SB: J.Hernandez (2), K.Jackson (3).

Late inning heroics lifted the Pirates to a 6-5 victory over the Orange County Surf on Tuesday afternoon at Scolinos Field.

The Surf got out to an early lead with an unearned run in the very first inning.

The Pirates scored the equalizer in the bottom of the fourth when Alec Petrone came home on an RBI groundout by Mario Micketti.

However, the Surf immediately answered right back with three runs in the top half of the fifth.

In the bottom of the sixth, JP Hopkins brought the Pirates a run closer with an RBI double, cutting the lead to 4-2.

The momentum was short-lived, as, much like in the fifth inning, the Surf answered the Pirates run with a run of their own in the top of the seventh, pushing the lead back to three.

The Pirates, however, responded right back in the bottom of the seventh. With two on and one out, Quinn Cooper drilled a two-run double into the gap in left-center, cutting the lead to 5-4.

Pirates reliever, Art Corona, retired the Surf in order, in both the eighth and ninth inning to keep the Pirates within a run heading into their last at-bat.

The bottom of the ninth started out with a bang as Jonathan De Marte led off the inning by crushing the first pitch he saw from closer, Josh Devries, over the left field fence for a game-tying solo home run. A few batters later, Brennan McKenzie came up with two outs and the winning run on second and delivered with a walk-off RBI single.

Pirates starter, Sean Patton, pitched 4 2/3 innings, giving up four runs (only three of them earned) on four hits while striking out four.

The victory moved the Pirates to 5-2 in league play and moved them into a first place tie with the Surf.

The Pirates will be in action again on Friday, when the Solana Beach Cardinals visit Scolinos Field. Game time is 6:00 PM.

Pirates
#	Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
18	Patton, S	4.2	6	4	3	3	4	5.19
9	Wade, K	1.1	2	0	0	0	1	11.57
39	Bates, S	1.0	1	1	1	1	1	9.00
27	Corona, A	2.0	0	0	0	0	1	4.77
		9	9	5	4	4	7

Pitching
BF: S.Patton 23, K.Wade 6, S.Bates 5, A.Corona 6.
P-S: S.Patton 77-44, K.Wade 15-14, S.Bates 19-10, A.Corona 25-15.
WP: S.Patton (1).

Batting
2B: A.Patrone (2), J.Hopkins (2), Q.Cooper (1).
HP: A.Vargas (1), B.Mckenzie (1).
HR: J.de Marte (1).
RBI: J.Hopkins (2), M.Micketti (1), J.de Marte (4), Q.Cooper 2 (3), B.Mckenzie (1).
SB: J.Katz (1).
Team LOB: 8.

Fielding
A: A.Patrone 3 (19), J.de Marte 3 (9), K.Glass 3 (10), S.Bates (1).
E: L.Marshall (1).
PO: A.Patrone (13), J.Jones (10), J.Hopkins 3 (10), L.Marshall 4 (26), A.Vargas 3 (21), N.Luzzi (8), H.Wright (8), Q.Cooper (2), K.Glass (7), J.Bryant 6 (23), B.Mckenzie 5 (18).
SBA: A.Vargas (11).
TC: A.Patrone 4 (32), J.Jones (10), J.Hopkins 3 (10), L.Marshall 5 (34), A.Vargas 3 (23), J.de Marte 3 (15), N.Luzzi (9), H.Wright (8), Q.Cooper (2), K.Glass 4 (19), J.Bryant 6 (25), B.Mckenzie 5 (20), S.Bates (1).

The Inland Valley Bucs (8-5, 2-3) dropped the second game of the double header 5-0 at Madison High School to the San Diego Force.

The Bucs came out flat after the thrilling, but disappointing finish in the first game.

The Force plated two in the second and fourth innings and tacked on one more in the eighth.

Cody Maples provided six strong innings for the Bucs.

Batting
2B: B.Lewis (4).

Bucs
#	Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
22	Maples, C	6.0	4	4	3	1	2	3.94
54	Lannon, L	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	1.76
14	Trask, E	1.0	0	1	0	1	0	1.04
		8	6	5	3	2	2

The Inland Valley Bucs (8-4, 2-2) fell 9-5 in a wild game at Madison High School against the Force that saw them erase two four-run deficits.

The Bucs made three errors in the first inning and allowed four unearned runs falling behind 4-0.

After getting one run back in the second, the Force responded with another run in the bottom of the inning to make it 5-1.

Inland Valley crept closer with one more run in the third on a sacrifice fly by Michael Mora that scored Jake Scott.

The Bucs tied the game in the fifth as Justin Gomez blasted a three-run homer over the right field fence.

The score remained 5-5 until the bottom of the eighth when the Force went on a two-out rally and Nick Zaharion cranked the go-ahead RBI.

Batting
HP: J.Scott (1), J.Gomez (1), A.Virgen (1).
HR: J.Gomez (1).
RBI: J.Gomez 3 (11), M.Mora (8).
SF: M.Mora (1).
SB: A.Virgen (3), K.Jackson (2).

Bucs
#	Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
23	Battaglia, J	4.0	5	5	1	4	2	1.06
55	Nimmo, G	3.2	4	4	4	2	3	14.73
54	Lannon, L	0.1	1	0	0	1	0	1.88
		8	10	9	5	7	5

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.

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

The Inland Valley Pirates (5-6-1, 4-1) defeated the South Bay Sliders 9-5 in a game they actually trailed 3-0, but used two four-run innings to overcome the deficit.

The first four-run inning was in the third when Albert Vargas and Jake Bryant had RBI knocks to give the Pirates a 4-3 lead.

The lead didn’t hold for long as the Sliders responded with two in the fourth to retake the lead at 5-4, but Inland Valley went right back to work in the fifth.

Bryant and JP Hopkins each cracked RBI doubles, Hayden Wright and Aaron Torres each added an RBI single.

Aaron Bernal pitched four solid innings in relief and earned the victory.

#	Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
54	Maxwell, L	3.0	4	3	3	3	4	14.54
22	Bernal, A	4.0	4	2	1	1	0	2.70
29	Cooper, Z	2.0	1	0	0	0	3	3.00
		9	9	5	4	4	7

The Inland Valley Pirates (4-6-1, 3-1) picked up a hard earned road victory 4-3 over the South Bay Sliders Thursday night at El Camino College.

The Pirates fell behind 2-0 in the second inning, and trailed by that score until the fourth inning.

In the fourth, Jahshua Jones knocked in Mario Micketti to cut the deficit to 2-1.

Jacob Blackiston scored the tying run in the sixth.

Quinn Cooper provided the go-ahead RBI in the seventh and the Pirates tacked on one more run on a Blackiston RBI.

The Pirates and Sliders are back at it again on Friday in game two of a three game set.

The Inland Valley Bucs (8-3, 2-1) fell for the first time in SCCBL play to the So Cal Bombers 4-1 on Thursday night at Cal Poly Pomona.

The Bucs couldn’t cash in on numerous opportunities to score stranding 12 base runners in the game.

The Bombers took a 1-0 lead in the fourth and extended the margin to 4-0 in the sixth.

Inland Valley plated one run in the ninth when Justin Gomez knocked in Drew Seelman.

The Bucs travel to San Diego on Saturday to play a double header against the Force.

Batting
2B: J.Hernandez (5).
HP: J.Hernandez (3), D.Lowenstein (1).
RBI: J.Gomez (8).

#	Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
5	Olvaney, T	5.2	7	4	4	2	2	5.28
99	Goytia, M	1.1	1	0	0	1	0	0.00
23	Battaglia, J	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0.69
		8	9	4	4	3	3

The Inland Valley Bucs (8-2, 2-0) walked off with a 6-5 victory in the 10th inning against the Arroyo Seco Sentinels Wednesday night at Cal Poly Pomona.

The Bucs led 5-2 in the eighth, but relinquished the lead allowing one in the eighth and two in the ninth as the Sentinels forced extra innings.

The Bucs fought back with Erik Trask on the mound tossing the final two innings and earning the win.

The 10th inning saw three consecutive base hits led of by Gehrig Vargas. Drew Seelman followed in suit with a single in his first at-bat of the season. That set the stage for Sheldon Borson, who cranked the game-winning RBI through the right side of the infield.

Batting
2B: D.Seelman (1).
HP: J.Hernandez (2).
RBI: A.Virgen (8), B.Lewis (8), S.Borson (8).
SB: A.Virgen 2 (2), S.Borson (4).

#	Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
4	Haro, V	5.0	4	2	2	3	1	2.65
54	Lannon, L	3.0	5	1	1	0	2	1.93
55	Nimmo, G	0.0	0	2	2	2	0	99.99
14	Trask, E	2.0	1	0	0	1	1	1.17
		10	10	5	5	6	4

The Inland Valley Pirates battled the Gamers to an 8-8 tie on Tuesday evening at Scolinos Field.

The Pirates came back from a 5-0 deficit, taking advantage of several Gamer miscues.

The game was scoreless until the top of the fourth inning when the Gamers put three runs on the board against Pirates starter Charlie Verrone.

The next inning the Gamers put up two more runs the take a 5-0 lead. The stymied Pirate offense finally broke out in the bottom of the sixth.

With runners on first and third and one out, an errant pickoff throw allowed Jacob Blackiston to score from third, putting the Pirates on the scoreboard. Three batters later, with the bases loaded, Landon Marshall socked a two-run double over the left fielders head to cut the deficit to 5-3. Two batters later, Jake Bryant came in to score on a wild pitch for the fourth run of the inning.

The score remained 5-4 until the top of the eighth inning, when the Gamers put up a three spot to push their lead to 8-4.

However, the never say die, Pirates answered right back in their half of the eighth. Anthrowing error by the Gamers’ shortstop plated Jacob Blackiston for the first run of the inning. Later, Jahshua Jones came in to score the second run of the inning on a throwing error by the Gamers third baseman. The next batter, Koby Glass, drove in a run with an RBI groundout, bringing the Pirates within a run of the gamers. Then with two outs and runners on first and third, pinch runner, Aaron Torres scampered home on a wild pitch to tie the game at eight.

After holding the Gamers scoreless in the ninth, the Pirates managed to load the bases with one out in their half of the inning. Unfortunately for the Pirates, they were unable to bring that winning run home from third and the game concluded in a draw.

Landon Marshall was the standout offensively, driving in three of the Pirates’ eight runs. Charlie Verrone turned in a quality outing, giving up just three runs over four innings. Aaron Bernal and Sean Patton both pitched scoreless relief.

The Pirates will hoist anchor on Thursday, as they draw swords with the South Bay Sliders at El Camino College. Game time is 5:00 PM.

Batting
2B: B.Mckenzie (3), L.Marshall (2).
HP: J.de Marte (1), J.Blackiston (1), J.Jones (3), B.Barron (1).
RBI: L.Marshall 3 (3), K.Glass (4).
SB: N.Cordoba (1).
Team LOB: 10.

Fielding
A: J.Blackiston (1), Z.Cooper (2), A.Vargas (1), A.Torres 2 (3), K.Glass 3 (5), A.Corona (4), C.Mckenzie (2), C.Verrone (5).
E: J.Blackiston (1).
PO: A.Patrone 2 (9), B.Mckenzie 6 (11), Z.Cooper 6 (18), J.Hopkins (4), J.Jones (5), A.Vargas (7), L.Marshall 4 (13), H.Wright (2), N.Luzzi 4 (7), C.Mckenzie (3).
SBA: A.Vargas 2 (5).
TC: A.Patrone 2 (15), J.Blackiston 2 (2), B.Mckenzie 6 (11), Z.Cooper 7 (20), J.Hopkins (4), J.Jones (5), A.Vargas 2 (9), L.Marshall 4 (17), A.Torres 2 (5), K.Glass 3 (8), H.Wright (2), N.Luzzi 4 (7), A.Corona (4), C.Mckenzie 2 (5), C.Verrone (10).

Pitching
BF: C.Verrone 17, A.Corona 7, A.Bernal 7, C.Mckenzie 6, S.Patton 4.
P-S: C.Verrone 62-35, A.Corona 23-12, A.Bernal 21-16, C.Mckenzie 18-13, S.Patton 12-9.
WP: C.Mckenzie 2 (2).