Bucs Walkoff Against Riptide

The Inland Valley Buccaneers (6-8, 4-4) got a measure of revenge against the OC Riptide (5-11-1, 3-3) early Saturday morning at Cal Poly Pomona.

The Bucs walked off in the 12th inning as Joseph Morreale had the game-winning RBI scoring Breyer Gayle.

The Bucs took a 1-0 lead in the first when Kevin Riley scored on a RBI single by Bryce Brooks.

The Riptide answered with two in the fourth and tacked on one more insurance run in the seventh to grab a 3-1 lead.

The Bucs fought back with two in the bottom of the eighth to knot it at 3 apiece.

Gayle knocked in Shamon Moss and scored the tying run on a base knock by Johnny Juarez to right field.

Randall Ortiz was electric tossing five innings in relief and striking out five, while earning the victory.

Jonathon Hopkins worked six solid innings as well en route to claiming four strikeout victims, while only allowing three hits.

Inland Valley has two off days before making the trip east to Palm Springs for a big two-game series against the Power starting Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Batting AB R H RBI BB K
Anthony Seminaris 2 0 0 0 0 1
Breyer Gayle 6 2 3 1 0 2
JP Hopkins 4 0 0 0 1 2
Tristan Chamberlain 0 0 0 0 0 0
Connor Steer 1 0 0 0 0 0
Brendan Campbell 3 0 0 0 0 0
Kevin Riley 3 1 2 0 0 1
Blake Vandegrift 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shamon Moss 3 1 1 0 0 1
Johnny Juarez 5 0 4 1 0 1
Hershel Gardner 3 0 0 0 0 1
Matt Majher 2 0 0 0 0 1
Joe Morreale 1 0 1 1 0 0
Bryce Brooks 5 0 3 1 0 1
DJ Peters 5 0 0 0 1 4
Totals 43 4 14 4 2 15

Batting2B: Shamon Moss
3B: Johnny Juarez
TB: Breyer Gayle 3, Kevin Riley 2, Shamon Moss 2, Johnny Juarez 6, Joe Morreale, Bryce Brooks 3
RBI: Breyer Gayle, Johnny Juarez, Joe Morreale, Bryce Brooks
SAC: Tristan Chamberlain, Kevin Riley, Blake Vandegrift
SF: Kevin Riley
ROE: Connor Steer
FC: DJ Peters
SB: JP Hopkins

Pitching IP #P TB H R ER BB K HR S%
Randall Ortiz 5.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 .000
Gerardo Ramirez 1.0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .000
Jonathan Hopkins 6.0 0 0 3 2 2 3 4 0 .000
Totals 12.0 0 0 4 3 2 3 9 0

PitchingW: Randall Ortiz
HBP: Randall Ortiz
WP: Randall Ortiz, Jonathan Hopkins

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