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In their last home game of the regular season, the Inland Valley Pirates lose the first game of a two-game series with the Ventura County Pirates, 12-1 on Tuesday night.

It was just not Inland Valley’s night. With a total of 9 walks, Ventura County was able to capitalize and take an early lead and increase it through out tonight’s match up.

Despite the score, Inland Valley did not go without a fight. With 10 total strikeout from tonight’s pitching staff of Jesse Villalobos (13), Dennis Hildebrandt (16), Mike Blanco (29) and Avery Rivera (3). The Pirates got their one run from a single from catcher, Tristen Macias (21) and hits from left fielder, Brandon Wolff (4) and third baseman, Mark Mohler (9) to bring in Macias.

After tonight’s league contest, the Inland Valley Pirates are 6-17 in SBL play. These two teams will battle it out again on Thursday, July 19 at LA Valley College 4:30 pm.

Big win tonight for the SBL Inland Valley Pirates as they took down the league-leading Long Beach Legends in a 5-3 victory.

The Legends got off to a quick start, scoring their first run early in the first inning. Inland Valley would wait until the third to answer when back to back RBI double’s from Isaiah Montoya and John Santospago would bring three Pirates in to score. Michael Moy would then add his own RBI double in the seventh to bring the Pirate’s run total to five for the night.

Looking to claw their way back, Long Beach would score an additional run in both the fifth and ninth innings. Solid performances on the mound from Pirate’s pitchers Angel Ruiz Jr. and Tristen Macias, however, prevented the Legends from evening things up.

Not only does this win come against the SBL’s top team, but it also snaps a nine game losing streak for Inland Valley and brings their total overall record to 6-18.

With just three games left this regular season, the Pirates look to Tuesday evening when they play their final home game of the summer at Amerige park against the Ventura County Pirates at 7:00pm.

The SCCBL Pirates were able to hold off the bad luck on this Friday the 13th.

In it’s final home game of the season, Inland Valley took the big win over the SoCal Bombers in a 12-4 routing.

The Pirate’s offense took off in the third, scoring four runs thanks to some solid hitting. Jake Anderson, Travis Aversa, Ryan McAnless and Ryan Pho all had singles in the inning to put Inland Valley on the board.

The Bombers struggled on the mound all game, which allowed the Pirates to maintain their lead, scoring an additional eight runs by the end of the eighth inning.

In the pitching game, both Kohto Hasegawa and Jake Lacheman shined for the Pirates, holding off all Bombers scoring in their four combined innings pitched.

SoCal would try to make it’s way back. The opposing team scored two runs in the fifth and continued to fight into the ninth where they put up another two runs, but just as they had in their previous three games against the Pirates this season, the Bombers came up short in their efforts.

Inland Valley will be back on the field this Sunday when they travel to Madison High School to face the San Diego Force for a double header at 1:00pm and 4:00pm.

The Inland Valley Pirates couldn’t get it done in their first game of the series with the Solana Beach Redbirds resulting in a 9-5 loss Thursday night.

Pirates sailed into rocky waters in the first inning when the Redbirds scored 2 lead off runs to start the game. Thankfully the Pirates were able to respond with a homerun in the bottom of the first from catcher, Cameron Trudel (20). The Redbirds’ and Pirates’ score went back and forth until the score was tied at 4-4 in the fifth. However, the Redbirds ended the tied and gained a lead by capitalizing on pitching and defensive errors from the Pirates’ staff.

Despite a loss, the Pirates’ defense was still on point. Spotlight player for last night’s game is catcher, Cameron Trudel. Trudel scored the Pirates’ first run of the night with a solo homerun in the first inning, a double in the fifth and a single in the eighth. Trudel showed he belonged behind the plate with great defensive footwork, not allowing very many balls to get pass him and being quick to get throw outs at every base.

After Thursday’s league game against the Redbirds, the Pirates are now 5-14 in Sunset Baseball League play. The Inland Valley Pirates will take a few days off and will finish the series with the Solana Beach Redbirds on Saturday, July 14 in a double header in Coronado at Coronado High School at 1:00 pm and 4:30 pm.

The Inland Valley Bucs came from behind against the So Cal Bombers to get the walk-off win 6-5. Kory Brown, who is leading the league in batting average, got the game winning RBI on a sacrifice fly that would bring home Malcolm Smith from 3rd base. After the leadoff hitter in the 9th would be retired, Malcolm Smith would get a triple to set up the game winning sacrifice fly.

The Bucs bullpen came in clutch today as reliever Gerardo Ramirez would shutdown the Bombers in the final five innings. Ramirez would only allow two hits while striking out 4 to pick up the win. After falling behind early 5-0, the Bucs would tie the game in the 4th after batting around getting 4 hits including a homerun from DH Christos Stefanos. The Bucs almost took the lead in the 7th after a one out triple from Christian Valdez but they were unable to bring him in from third.

With the final game of the regular season on Friday against the Riverside Bulldogs at Santiago HS, the team that wins will get the final playoff spot and play against first place Palm Springs Power in the opening round starting on Tuesday.

The Inland Valley Bucs were swept in a double header Mondy afternoon against the league leading Palm Springs Power. With the losses the Bucs are half game back of the final playoff spot at 7-11 in league and 13-12 overall.

In their first game, the Bucs would lose 8-2. Starter Brennan Piceno would hold the Power scoreless for the first 4 inning before they got on the scoreboard with 3 runs in the fifth. Those runs would all Power starter Jonathan Buckley would need. He threw a complete game while only giving up 2 runs in the 9th. The bright spot for the Bucs offense was Kory Brown as he went 2-4 with two doubles to improve his average to 0.422.

The Bucs hitting woes would continue in game 2 of the double header as the lost 8-1.  Five Power pitchers would hold the Bucs offense to 3 hits. Christian Valdez would go 1-3 with the Bucs lone RBI in the 4th inning.

The Inland Valley Bucs next game will be Thursday here Amerige Park as they take on the So Cal Bombers at 3 o’clock.

After 9-inning pitching battle with the California Jays, the Inland Valley Pirates take it home with a  3-1 win.

After some scheduling confusion, the Pirates played the Jays in a matchup where the umpire for the day was none other than Pirates’ Head Coach, Brett Lacheman. Despite the game weather staying in the 90s, Pirates’ pitching staff stayed calm, cool and collected putting away a combined 14 strikeouts in today’s win. 6 of those strikeouts were consecutive and came from the two innings pitched by Kevin Santana (35).

Today’s standout player of the game was Colton Combs (24) who went 3 for 3 with a single in the first, double in the fourth and a double in the sixth. A passed ball and a sacrifice hit from Ryan Crowe (12) allowed Combs to come home and score the first the Pirates’ 3 runs today.

With the race for playoffs on, the Pirates are sitting pretty with an overall record of 13-9 and a SCCBL conference record of 10-6; just behind first place team the Palm Springs Power.  After some well deserved days off the Inland Valley Pirates will face the Riverside Bulldogs in a conference battle on July 11 at Santiago High School in Corona at 7:00 pm.

The Inland Valley Bucs tie up the season series against the Jays today as they won 4 to 1 today against the Jays. Today was all about the Inland Valley Bucs as a staff only allied one run.

This all started with Tyler Agaganian as he went 4 innings and only gave up 1 one on 2 hits. The Bucs bullpen after that came firing in as a total only gave up a total of 5 hits.

The Bucs next game will be on Monday at 1 o’clock as they take on the Palm Springs Power.

The Inland Valley Pirates complete a two-game sweep against the SoCal Bombers Friday night, downing their league opponent in a 6-0 shutout.

Inland Valley got on the board first in the third inning when Jake Anderson tacked on another RBI to his season, hitting a single that allowed Trevor Jackson to score. Neither team would score again until the it seventh where the Pirates really got hot. With two outs and the score still at 1-0, Inland Valley gathered all their momentum and managed to score an additional five times to secure the lead.

While the offense was solid, it was the pitching performances that really stole the show. Andre Henson set the tone, pitching the first four complete innings without giving up any hits and racking up seven strikeouts. Jake Lacheman then took things over, pitching the next three innings and adding three strikeouts of his own. Finally, Trip Aversa took full advantage of his two innings on the mound. He struck out five of the six batters he faced for two impressive 1-2-3 innings to finish the game and hold off the Bombers.

The Pirate’s now continue to hold their second place ranking in the SCCBL with a league record of 10-6. They will play again tomorrow night at Amerige in a non-league game against the CA Jays at 7:00pm.

The Inland Valley Pirates faced off against the SoCal Bombers in a battle resulting in a 9-8 win in game one of the series.

After the Bombers got on the board first in the first inning, the Pirates responded by scoring 3 runs in the second inning. The Pirates would continue to increase and hold their lead over the Bombers throughout the game. A big inning for the Pirates came in the sixth when the pirates scored 3 more runs. A leadoff walk for first baseman, Chase Wehesner (7) would start the momentum for his following teammates; Aaron Halpert (8), Nick Peifer (8) and Jake Anderson (13) contribute with big hits that bring in Wehesner, Halpert and Peifer to bring the Pirates’ lead to 9 runs. The Pirates hit rocky waters in the ninth when the Bombers responded to the comfortable lead the Pirates had by scoring 5 runs and cutting the deficit to just one run. Thankfully closer, Sean Dumser (29) held the Bombers to just 5 runs and was able to send the game and send his teammates home with a win.

The Pirates’ defense was something to be proud of today. With only two errors, the defense looked sharp; using good communication on the field and getting quick outs. Reliever, Trevor Jackson (10) got the job done today with 4 out of 5 scoreless innings.

Hot bats and solid defense led the Pirates to their eleventh win of the season and their ninth win in SCCBL conference play. With their eyes set on postseason play, the Pirates are in second place in the standings, just 1.5 games behind the Palm Springs POWER.

The Pirates will face the Bombers again tomorrow for game two of the series on July 6th at 7:00 pm at Amerige Park in Fullerton.