Baseball:
The Inland Valley Pirates held its spot atop the BOTW standings on Sunday.
The Pirates hold a slim one-half game advantage over the second-place Ventura County Pirates, thanks to a 7-4 victory over the Arroyo Seco Sentinels at Cal Poly Pomona.
IVP trailed 4-0 as they grabbed their bats in the bottom of the third inning.
The Pirates got one run in both the third and fourth innings, and it was a four-run seventh inning that allowed them to pull away.
Jacob Gonzalez was credited with the win.
Gonzalez went three scoreless innings and allowed just two hits.
Gonzalez didn’t issue a walk and struck out three Sentinels’ batters.
The IVP pitching staff (Adam Aguirre, Nathaniel Garcia, Diego Cruz and Gonzalez) deserves a lot of credit for withstanding five errors that cost the Pirates all four runs.
Mikey Easter walked, singled and scored for Arroyo Seco.
Alex Bueno and Jason Givens singled and scored one run each.
Antonio Andrade had an RBI single.
Josh Chavez walked and singled, and Bryce Cerminelli walked and scored.
Ryan Graves was saddled with the loss, allowing four runs (one earned) on two hits.
Graves went two innings, walked one and struck out one IVP batter.
Jacob Badawi walked twice, had two singles, scored and drove in a run.
Austin Haller singled, doubled, scored and had one RBI.
Daniel Garcia doubled and drove in a game-high three runs.
Dominic Martinez singled, scored and had one RBI.
Ignacio Alvarez walked, singled and scored.
Matthew Darr and Maxwell Shor walked and scored one run apiece.
Box Score:
Seco: 0-2-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-(4)
IVP: 0-0-1-1-0-0-4-1-X-(7)
Win: Jacob Gonzalez
Loss: Ryan Graves
2B: Daniel Garcia (IVP), Austin Haller (IVP)
Records: Seco (7-7); IV Pirates (15-5)