Force Too Much to Handle

The Inland Valley Buccaneers (7-12-1, 5-8) fell 11-5 to the San Diego Force (24-4, 11-2) on Tuesday night at Cal Poly Pomona.

The Force jumped out to a 3-0 lead, but the Bucs got one back in the bottom of the second when Brendan Campbell scored on a bases loaded walk by Anthony Seminaris.

The Force responded with a four-run fourth to increase their lead to 7-1.

Inland Valley answered with two in the bottom half of the inning to cut the deficit to 7-3.

Campbell scored for the second time on a Shamon Moss RBI and Hershel Gardner scored on a sacrifice fly by Blake Vandegrift.

The Force added four more runs to take an 11-3 lead in the eighth, but the Bucs wouldn’t go without a fight as they scored two in the final frame.

Connor Steer and Seminaris scored in the ninth.

Batting AB R H RBI BB K
Anthony Seminaris 1 1 0 1 3 0
JP Hopkins 0 0 0 0 1 0
Tristan Chamberlain 1 0 0 0 0 0
Connor Steer 2 1 1 0 0 1
Brendan Campbell 2 2 0 0 1 0
Kevin Riley 4 0 0 0 1 1
Gerardo Ramirez 1 0 0 0 0 0
Blake Vandegrift 1 0 0 1 0 1
Shamon Moss 3 0 1 1 0 0
Johnny Juarez 2 0 0 0 0 2
Hershel Gardner 2 1 0 0 1 1
Matt Majher 3 0 1 0 0 2
Diego Cortes 0 0 0 0 1 0
Jacob Taylor 1 0 1 1 1 0
Joe Morreale 2 0 0 1 0 1
DJ Peters 5 0 2 0 0 1
Totals 30 5 6 5 9 10

BattingTB: Connor Steer, Shamon Moss, Matt Majher, Jacob Taylor, DJ Peters 2
RBI: Anthony Seminaris, Blake Vandegrift, Shamon Moss, Jacob Taylor, Joe Morreale
SF: Blake Vandegrift, Joe Morreale
ROE: Brendan Campbell, DJ Peters
FC: Hershel Gardner
SB: Matt Majher, DJ Peters
CS: DJ Peters
PIK: DJ Peters

Pitching IP #P TB H R ER BB K HR S%
Randall Ortiz 2.2 0 0 5 4 4 2 3 0 .000
Chris Sanchez 2.2 0 0 4 3 3 2 1 0 .000
David Kretschmar 1.1 0 0 2 3 3 3 3 0 .000
Daniel Sandoval 1.0 0 0 2 1 1 1 2 0 .000
DJ Peters 1.1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0
Totals 9.0 0 0 14 11 11 9 11 0

PitchingL: David Kretschmar
HBP: DJ Peters 2

Bucs Run Away with Game 1 in SD

The Inland Valley Buccaneers (4-5, 2-1) ran away with Game 1 of the double dip on Friday afternoon from Grossmont College 8-2 over Team San Diego.

The Bucs were led by Johnny Juarez, who finished 2-for-5 with three RBI and two runs scored.

Breyer Gayle’s hot play continued as well. He also went 2-for-5 and scored a couple of runs.

Brendan Campbell, Tristan Chamberlain, Hershel Gardner and Matt Majher each scored once.

JP Hopkins, Majher, Shamon Moss and Connor Steer each ripped one RBI.

Logan Lannon earned the pitching win tossing three innings while striking out two and allowing no runs.

Batting AB R H RBI BB K
Anthony Seminaris 2 0 0 0 1 1
Breyer Gayle 5 2 2 0 0 0
JP Hopkins 5 0 1 1 0 1
Tristan Chamberlain 1 1 1 0 0 0
Connor Steer 3 0 1 1 0 0
Brendan Campbell 4 1 1 0 1 0
Gerardo Ramirez 1 0 0 0 1 0
Blake Vandegrift 2 0 0 0 0 0
Shamon Moss 2 0 1 1 0 0
Johnny Juarez 5 2 2 3 0 1
Hershel Gardner 2 1 1 0 1 0
Matt Majher 5 1 1 1 0 1
Bryce Brooks 2 0 1 0 0 0
Totals 39 8 12 7 4 4

Batting2B: JP Hopkins, Johnny Juarez, Matt Majher
TB: Breyer Gayle 2, JP Hopkins 2, Tristan Chamberlain, Connor Steer, Brendan Campbell, Shamon Moss, Johnny Juarez 3, Hershel Gardner, Matt Majher 2, Bryce Brooks
RBI: JP Hopkins, Connor Steer, Shamon Moss, Johnny Juarez 3, Matt Majher
SAC: Bryce Brooks
ROE: Breyer Gayle, Matt Majher

Pitching IP #P TB H R ER BB K HR S%
Chris Sanchez 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 .000
David Kretschmar 4.0 0 0 2 2 2 5 4 0 .000
Logan Lannon 3.0 0 0 3 0 0 1 2 0 .000
Totals 9.0 0 0 5 2 2 6 10 0

PitchingW: Logan Lannon
HBP: Chris Sanchez

Nighthawks Fly Past Bucs

The Bucs’ early season struggles continued with another loss, this time coming to the Colton Nighthawks 4-3 at Cal Poly Pomona on Friday afternoon.

The Bucs were poised to get off the schnide initially as they jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the first.

Connor Steer doubled to left field and wound up scoring later.

Colton responded with three runs in the fourth to grab the 3-1 lead.

Inland Valley answered with a two-run seventh to knot the game up at 3. JP Hopkins had the big two-run double scoring Joe Morreale and Blake Vandegrift.

Just when it looked like the Bucs might make the comeback, they gave up one run in the eighth on a wild pitch.

David Kretschmar tossed two solid scoreless innings.

Jonathon Hopkins added another two scoreless innings and three strikeouts.

Batting AB R H RBI BB K
Anthony Seminaris 1 0 0 0 1 0
Breyer Gayle 1 0 0 0 1 0
JP Hopkins 5 0 2 2 0 2
Tristan Chamberlain 1 0 0 0 0 0
Connor Steer 2 1 2 0 0 0
Brendan Campbell 2 0 1 0 0 0
Kevin Riley 3 0 0 0 0 0
Gerardo Ramirez 2 0 1 0 0 1
Blake Vandegrift 1 1 0 0 1 1
Shamon Moss 2 0 0 0 0 0
Johnny Juarez 3 0 0 0 1 1
Hershel Gardner 1 0 1 0 0 0
Matt Majher 4 0 1 0 0 0
Jacob Taylor 2 0 0 0 0 0
Joe Morreale 1 1 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 8 2 4 5

Batting2B: JP Hopkins 2, Connor Steer, Gerardo Ramirez
TB: JP Hopkins 4, Connor Steer 3, Brendan Campbell, Gerardo Ramirez 2, Hershel Gardner, Matt Majher
RBI: JP Hopkins 2
SAC: Tristan Chamberlain, Connor Steer
HBP: Hershel Gardner, Joe Morreale

Pitching IP #P TB H R ER BB K HR S%
Daniel Diaz 2.0 0 0 1 3 0 2 1 0 .000
Randall Ortiz 1.0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 .000
Cameron Rodriguez 1.0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 .000
Jonathan Hopkins 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 .000
David Kretschmar 2.0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 .000
Diego Cortes 1.0 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 .000
Totals 9.0 0 0 7 4 1 6 10 0

PitchingL: Diego Cortes