Bucs Take Down Nationals

The Inland Valley Buccaneers (12-14-2) defeated the So Cal Nationals 5-1 Sunday afternoon at Linfield Christian.

DJ Peters ripped his second big fly of the season.

Chris Sanchez and Gerardo Ramirez combined to throw the entire game and only allowed one unearned run.

Anthony Seminaris, Blake Vandegrift and Shamon Moss each scored once.

The Bucs will head back in to SCCBL competition on Tuesday at Vanguard University against the suddenly hot OC Riptide.

Batting AB R H RBI BB K
Anthony Seminaris 3 1 1 0 1 1
Breyer Gayle 5 0 2 0 0 1
Brendan Campbell 4 0 1 0 0 0
Gerardo Ramirez 3 0 0 0 1 1
Blake Vandegrift 2 1 0 0 1 0
Shamon Moss 4 1 0 0 1 1
Hershel Gardner 4 0 1 0 0 2
Matt Majher 4 0 2 0 0 1
Jacob Taylor 4 0 0 0 0 0
DJ Peters 3 2 1 1 1 1
Totals 36 5 8 1 5 8

Batting2B: Anthony Seminaris, Brendan Campbell
HR: DJ Peters
TB: Anthony Seminaris 2, Breyer Gayle 2, Brendan Campbell 2, Hershel Gardner, Matt Majher 2, DJ Peters 4
RBI: DJ Peters
SAC: Blake Vandegrift
ROE: Hershel Gardner
SB: Anthony Seminaris, Gerardo Ramirez, Blake Vandegrift

Pitching IP #P S% H R ER K BB HR
Chris Sanchez 5.0 0 .000 3 1 0 4 4 0
Gerardo Ramirez 4.0 0 2 0 0 5 0 0
Totals 9.0 0 5 1 0 9 4 0

PitchingW: Gerardo Ramirez

Bucs Forced to Dark Side

The Inland Valley Buccaneers (5-7, 3-3) were swept in a two-game home and away series against the San Diego Force on Wednesday night at Cal Poly Pomona by a 9-2 score.

Although the Bucs allowed nine to the Force for the second straight day, the final score is misleading as Inland Valley took a 2-0 lead into the sixth inning.

The Bucs scored one in the first on a Johnny Juarez RBI double scoring Kevin Riley.

Juarez was back at it in the third when he executed a squeeze bunt for his second RBI of the game, this time scoring Breyer Gayle.

In addition to the 2-0 lead heading into the top of the sixth, starting pitcher Chris Sanchez hadn’t allowed a hit in his first five innings.

It all went downhill from there. The Force scored seven in the sixth and added another two in the seventh.

The Bucs will play another SCCBL game on Friday at 5 p.m. at Vanguard University against the OC Riptide.

Batting AB R H RBI BB K
Anthony Seminaris 4 0 0 0 0 2
Breyer Gayle 2 1 2 0 0 0
Connor Steer 1 0 0 0 1 0
Brendan Campbell 3 0 2 0 0 0
Kevin Riley 4 1 1 0 0 0
Gerardo Ramirez 1 0 0 0 1 1
Blake Vandegrift 2 0 0 0 0 1
Johnny Juarez 4 0 2 2 0 2
Hershel Gardner 3 0 1 0 0 0
Matt Majher 4 0 0 0 0 1
Joe Morreale 1 0 0 0 0 0
Bryce Brooks 4 0 0 0 0 1
Totals 33 2 8 2 2 8

Batting2B: Johnny Juarez
TB: Breyer Gayle 2, Brendan Campbell 2, Kevin Riley, Johnny Juarez 3, Hershel Gardner
RBI: Johnny Juarez 2
ROE: Kevin Riley
HBP: Hershel Gardner
SB: Gerardo Ramirez

Pitching IP #P TB H R ER BB K HR S%
Alex Bernstein 1.1 0 0 2 3 1 2 1 0 .000
Randall Ortiz 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 .000
Chris Sanchez 5.1 0 0 4 6 2 4 1 0 .000
Jacob Taylor 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 .000
Totals 9.0 0 0 6 9 3 7 5 0

PitchingL: Chris Sanchez
HBP: Alex Bernstein, Randall Ortiz
WP: Alex Bernstein

Bucs 2015 Season Preview

The Bucs return nine players from last year’s inaugural season.

Kevin Riley
Kevin Riley

SCCBL all-stars Gerardo Ramirez, Kevin Riley and Miles Ryan are all back to build what they started into a playoff contender.

Riley was one of the standout offensive players in the entire league in 2014. He lead the team in batting average (.368), on base (.461) and slugging (483), while seemingly coming up with a big hit every single time the Bucs needed him to come through.

Ryan came on strong in the last month of the season en route to be named player of the week once. He finished with a .350 batting clip, .409 OBP and .400 SLG. He was also a stabilizing force behind home plate defensively.

Ramirez logged the most innings at 42. He finished 3-2 with a 3.43 ERA and 32 strikeouts.

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Bucs Drop Both Games in San Diego

bucs gm 23The Buccaneers (7-19-1, 3-11) fell 4-2 to the San Diego Force Friday afternoon at Valhalla High School.

The started off strong with a three-run first inning and tacked on one more run in the seventh to take a 4-0 lead.

Inland Valley answered in the eighth when Tanner Thibodeau belted a two-run home run scoring Bryce Brooks.

Chris Sanchez pitched the complete game (8 innings) in the loss. He allowed three earned runs and struck out three. Continue reading “Bucs Drop Both Games in San Diego”

Bucs Offense Explodes for 8 Runs

bucs gm 13The Buccaneers offense exploded for eight runs in an 8-4 victory over the Lancaster Rounders (2-2-1) on Saturday afternoon at Cal Poly Pomona.

Chris Sanchez (1-0) dazzled on the mound tossing 8.1 innings, while striking out 10 and only allowing one earned run.

Inland Valley started off things right in the first inning with four runs. Continue reading “Bucs Offense Explodes for 8 Runs”