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The Inland Valley Pirates (0-5) did all they could in Palm Springs Wednesday night getting out to a 7-2 lead, but fell 19-7 to the Power after 17 unanswered runs.

Jahshua Jones led the way with two hits and two runs scored. Nick Cordoba and Aaron Torres each had two hits as well.

Batting
2B: N.Cordoba (1).
HP: M.Micketti (1).
RBI: Z.Cooper (1).
SB: J.Jones 2 (2), A.Torres (1).

Pirates
#	Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
37	Verrone, C	4.0	6	4	3	1	2	5.40
4	Katz, J	2.2	12	13	11	4	1	27.00
19	Pena, C	1.1	2	2	2	2	0	16.20
		8	20	19	16	7	3

The Inland Valley Pirates (0-4) fell to the Palm Springs Power 12-1 on Tuesday night at Palm Springs Stadium in the first of a two-game series.

Jahshua Jones went 2-for-2 and scored the lone run for the Pirates.

Nathan Gilman pitched three scoreless innings in relief.

Batting
2B: B.Mckenzie (1), J.Jones (1).
SB: J.Jones (1).

Pirates
#	Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
9	Wade, K	2.0	7	6	6	1	1	23.15
33	Mckenzie, C	1.1	3	1	1	0	2	4.50
22	Bernal, A	1.0	3	2	2	0	1	9.00
74	Gilman, N	3.0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00
27	Corona, A	0.2	3	3	3	2	0	9.00
		8	16	12	12	3	5

The Inland Valley Bucs (4-0) continue to play incredible early season ball winning yet another game. This time, they defeated the Solana Beach Cardinals 9-2 on Tuesday night at Cal Poly Pomona.

Right from the get-go, the Bucs took the advantage plating three runs in the first inning. Justin Gomez doubled and scored in the inning.

Solana Beach got one back in the second, but the Bucs answered in the fourth with five more runs.

Brad Lewis doubled and scored on a RBI double by Michael Mora. Jake Scott added another RBI double, Sheldon Borson cranked a two-run single and Gomez ripped a RBI single.

Inland Valley tacked on one more in the eighth.

The Bucs play again on Thursday at 1 p.m. at Cal Poly Pomona against the So Cal Bombers in their first league of the season.

Batting2B: Justin Gomez, Jake Scott, Brad Lewis, Michael Mora
TB: Justin Gomez 3, Jake Scott 2, Brad Lewis 2, Sheldon Borson, Michael Mora 4
RBI: Justin Gomez, Jake Scott, Sheldon Borson 2, Michael Mora
ROE: Dylan Lowenstein, Kyle Jackson, Jordan Hernandez, Brandon Benson
FC: Todd Yost
HBP: Kyle Jackson, Aaron McCann

PitchingW: Logan Lannon
HBP: Nate Alam

The Inland Valley Pirates were defeated by the Orange County Riptide in a non-conference contest on Sunday at Scolinos Field by a score of 6-1.

The Pirates offense was stymied by the Riptide pitching, mustering only one run on five hits in the contest.

The Riptide jumped on the board early thanks to an unearned run in first inning off of Pirates starter, Breion Barron.

The score remained 1-0 until the fifth inning when the Riptide tacked on another run to push the lead to two.

The Pirates scored their sole run in the bottom of the seventh on a two-out, RBI single by second basemen, Koby Glass.

However, the Riptide answered right back with four runs in the top the eighth, to put the game away for good as they held on for the 6-1 victory.

The loss dropped the Pirates to 0-3 on the season, as the Riptide improved to 4-1.

Despite the offensive woos for the Pirates, catcher, Landon Marshall managed a standout performance, reaching base in three of his four plate appearances and throwing out two would be base-stealers.

Despite taking the loss, Pirates starter Brieon Barron pitched well in his first start, surrendering just the one unearned run and two hits in three innings of work.

Reliever, Jake Geck turned in a strong performance as well, with two perfect innings.

The Pirates will try, once again, to look for that elusive first victory when they take on the Palm Springs Power on Tuesday, June 7th at Palm Springs Stadium. Game time is set for 7 p.m.

Batting
HP: L.Marshall (1).
RBI: K.Glass (1).
Team LOB: 9.

Fielding
A: A.Torres (1), L.Marshall 2 (2), J.de Marte (1), C.Verrone (1), K.Glass 2 (2), A.Corona 3 (3).
CS: L.Marshall 2 (2).
E: J.de Marte (1), C.Verrone (1), K.Glass 2 (2).
PO: A.Torres 2 (2), A.Patrone 2 (2), L.Marshall 4 (4), J.de Marte (1), Q.Cooper (1), C.Verrone 2 (2), K.Glass (1), A.Vargas 2 (2), Z.Cooper 5 (5), C.Mckenzie 2 (2), N.Luzzi (1), N.Cordoba (1), M.Micketti 3 (3).
SBA: L.Marshall 2 (2), A.Vargas 2 (2).
TC: A.Torres 3 (3), A.Patrone 2 (2), L.Marshall 6 (6), J.de Marte 3 (3), Q.Cooper (1), C.Verrone 4 (4), K.Glass 5 (5), A.Vargas 2 (2), Z.Cooper 5 (5), C.Mckenzie 2 (2), N.Luzzi (1), N.Cordoba (1), M.Micketti 3 (3), A.Corona 3 (3).

Pirates
#	Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
7	Barron, B	3.0	2	1	1	1	3	3.00
22	Corona, A	2.0	2	1	1	1	1	5.69
23	Geck, J	2.0	0	0	0	0	1	5.79
16	Swartz, B	1.0	1	4	2	3	0	15.00
37	Verrone, C	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00
		9	5	6	4	5	6

The Inland Valley Bucs’ stellar start to the season continued Sunday night at Cal Poly Pomona with a 7-4 victory over the Orange County Riptide.

Inland Valley scored three in the second inning and never looked back. Anthony Walters had a RBI groundout scoring Anthony Virgen. Dylan Lowenstein and Brad Lewis also scored in the frame.

The Bucs put up another three-spot in the third inning. Justin Gomez ripped a RBI single and Lewis cranked a RBI triple in the inning.

The Riptide pulled within two runs by the fifth inning scoring one in the fourth and three in the fifth.

The Bucs tacked on another run in the bottom of the fifth when Lowenstein hit a deep fly ball to right field for a sacrifice fly.

Vini Haro earned the pitching win and tossed four strong innings allowing just three hits and one run.

Batting2B: Jordan Hernandez
3B: Brad Lewis
TB: Dylan Lowenstein, Justin Gomez 2, Jordan Hernandez 3, Brad Lewis 3, Anthony Virgen
RBI: Dylan Lowenstein, Justin Gomez, Brad Lewis, Anthony Walters
SAC: Dylan Lowenstein
ROE: Dylan Lowenstein
FC: Gehrig Vargas

PitchingW: Vini Haro
SV: Sheldon Borson
HBP: Jordan Hernandez, Logan Lannon

The Inland Valley Bucs (2-0) defeated the OC Surf 7-4 on Saturday afternoon at Cal Poly Pomona thanks to last at bat heroics.

The Bucs trailed 4-0 heading into the bottom of the fifth, but responded with seven unanswered runs, one in the fifth, one in the seventh and five in the eighth.

The first run was scored on a RBI single by Brandon Benson.  Alex Gaskin came in to score.

The Bucs cut it to 4-2 in the seventh when Brad Lewis ripped a RBI double scoring Michael Mora.

Mora ended up being the hero in the eighth, producing the game-winning RBI. Aaron McCann added a two-run triple to right center and Gehrig Vargas had the game-tying RBI.

Tim Olvaney (2-0) entered in the eighth and pitched two scoreless innings. He earns the win for the second time in as many games.

Batting2B: Brad Lewis
3B: Aaron McCann
TB: Justin Gomez, Jordan Hernandez 2, Brandon Benson, Gehrig Vargas, Brad Lewis2, Aaron McCann 3, Michael Mora 2, Alex Gaskin 2
RBI: Brandon Benson, Gehrig Vargas, Brad Lewis, Aaron McCann 2, Michael Mora
ROE: Justin Gomez
FC: Matt Majher
SB: Kyle Jackson

PitchingW: Tim Olvaney
HBP: Cody Maples

The Inland Valley Pirates (0-2) dropped a wild 11-7 decision to the Arroyo Seco Sentinels Friday night at Jackie Robinson Field.

The Pirates sprung out to a 5-0 lead in the first inning.

Justin Katz, Alec Patrone, Brennan McKenzie, Landon Marshall, and Hayden Wright each ripped base hits in the inning.

The Sentinels responded with nine unanswered runs to take the 9-5 lead.

Inland Valley cut the deficit in half in the fifth creeping within two to make it a 9-7 ballgame, but the Sentinels proved to be too much to handle scoring two insurance runs in the sixth inning.

The Pirates play next on Sunday at Cal Poly Pomona against the OC Riptide.

Pirates
#	Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
16	Swartz, B	2.0	4	3	3	1	1	13.50
4	Katz, J	1.0	1	1	0	2	1	0.00
23	Geck, J	2.0	1	0	0	0	1	10.12
45	Bernal, A	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
17	Wade, K	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
19	Pena, C	2.0	5	5	4	1	0	18.00
		8	11	9	7	4	3

The Inland Valley Pirates (0-1) fell 7-2 on Thursday night to the Gamers at East Los Angeles College.

The Pirates scored twice in the third to take a 2-0 lead, but seven unanswered runs was too much to overcome.

Kyle Wade had a RBI single. Jarrett Anton and Brennan McKenzie each scored once.

The Pirates are in action again on Friday night when they take on the Arroyo Seco Sentinels at Brookside Park.

Batting
RBI: K.Wade (1).
SB: J.Hopkins (1), B.Mckenzie (1), K.Wade (1).
Team LOB: 1.

Fielding
A: A.Patrone 3 (3), C.Verrone (1), J.Bryant (1), A.Torres (1), J.Anton 3 (3), H.Wright (1), A.Corona 2 (2).
PB: A.Vargas 2 (2).
PO: A.Patrone (1), M.Micketti (1), J.DeMarte (1), L.Marshall 3 (3), A.Vargas 6 (6), A.Torres (1), J.Anton 2 (2), B.Mckenzie 7 (7), Z.Cooper 2 (2).
SBA: A.Vargas 3 (3).
TC: A.Patrone 4 (4), C.Verrone (1), M.Micketti (1), J.DeMarte (1), J.Bryant (1), L.Marshall 3 (3), A.Vargas 6 (6), A.Torres 2 (2), J.Anton 5 (5), H.Wright (1), B.Mckenzie 7 (7), Z.Cooper 2 (2), A.Corona 2 (2).

Pirates
#	Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
33	Mckenzie, C	2.2	4	1	1	2	2	3.38
45	Bernal, A	0.1	0	0	0	0	1	0.00
23	Geck, J	0.2	3	3	3	1	2	40.48
22	Corona, A	4.1	4	3	3	2	3	6.23
		8	11	7	7	5	8

Fresh off a trip to Wichita, Kansas for the NBC World Series, the Pirates will take on a new challenge this season. They make the move to the brand new Sunset Baseball League.

Traditionally, the Pirates had been coached by program founder and GM Charlie Reynoso, but this year Reynoso takes a step back to focus on his GM duties and gives an opportunity to several exciting new coaches.

Jenzen Torres will be the manager. Torres has been at Cal Poly Pomona as an assistant for the past three years and brings energy and excitement into the program. He has the most home runs in Bronco history and also played professionally.

Speaking of professionals, Chad Cordero will serve as the pitching coach. He currently coaches at Cal State Fullerton and was an MLB all-star for the Nationals in 2005 recording 47 saves.

While the coaching staff is stellar, the roster is even more impressive.

Iowa sophomore Kyle Wade looks to have the makings of a legitimate ace.

Senior Sean Patton (Cal State East Bay) will be another ace for the staff. Last season, Patton recorded a microscopic 1.31 ERA for the Pirates, the second best in program history.

Senior Conlan McKenzie adds another veteran presence for what should be a lights out pitching staff. McKenzie is in his third go-around with the Pirates.

Joseph Morreale jumps ship from the Bucs to the Pirates. He’ll take on the catching duties. He had a great season at Citrus finishing with a .327 BA and was a key cog toward the end of the season last year for the Bucs.

Another big bat will be Jonathan de Marte’s, who makes the trip all the way from New York after hitting .319 this past season with the Richmond Spiders.

Other returning Inland Valley players include: Jarrett Anton, Nick Cordoba, Art Corona, JP Hopkins,  Aaron Torres and Hayden Wright.

The Pirates take the field for the first time at Mt. View High School in El Monte to take on the Gamers. Their first SBL game will June, 9 at home against the Arroyo Seco Saints.