{"id":47679,"date":"2015-04-25T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T22:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=47679"},"modified":"2015-04-27T20:52:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T03:52:20","slug":"cougars-cant-weather-red-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=47679","title":{"rendered":"Cougars Can&#8217;t Weather Red Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47680\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_9934.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47680\" class=\"size-large wp-image-47680\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_9934-654x768.jpg\" alt=\"APU's Daniel Martin sends this belt high fastball to San Bernardino.\" width=\"520\" height=\"610\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">APU&#8217;s Daniel Martin sends this belt high fastball to San Bernardino.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Glendora) &#8211;\u00a0Azusa Pacific led 4-0\u00a0early but couldn&#8217;t hold on as Dixie State rallied\u00a0for an 8-5 win over the Cougars Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Daniel\u00a0Martin\u00a0belted a three run home run to highlight a four run second inning\u00a0as the Cougars struck first. Adrian Tovalin and Joe Huthsing\u00a0both walked.\u00a0Brian Magana hit into\u00a0a force play but Tovalin scored on an error. Mitch Dergazarian followed with a\u00a0single to set up Martin&#8217;s bomb. \u00a0Blake James singled home a run in the seventh but that was all\u00a0Azusa Pacific\u00a0managed\u00a0the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Red Storm battled back. Tanner Morache belted a two run home run in the third and base hits by Drew\u00a0McClaughlin, Kevin Klien and\u00a0Yuto Kata led to two more runs to tie it up.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47681\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_9964.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47681\" class=\"size-large wp-image-47681\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_9964-599x768.jpg\" alt=\"Blake James looks to turn two.\" width=\"520\" height=\"666\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blake James looks to turn two.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dixie State took the lead for good in the sixth when\u00a0Kato doubled in a run and then scored on a sacrifice fly by Marache for\u00a0a 6-4 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars cut it to 6-5 in the seventh\u00a0when Marin walked and eventually scored on the single by James. But the Red Storm came right back to ice it with two more runs in the\u00a0ninth. Marche was hit by a pitch\u00a0and took second on an error\u00a0on a ball hit by McClaughlin. Both runners moved around to score\u00a0on a couple of ground balls. Marcache avoided the\u00a0tag\u00a0when the Cougars tried to cut him down at the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Each side used four pitchers in the contest. Porter Clayton started and pitched into the seventh inning for the Red Storm.\u00a0Wyatt Wood lasted just two and \u00a0one-third innings for the Cougars.<\/p>\n<p>With the win Dixie State salvaged a split of the four game series.\u00a0APU swept a double header on Friday. APU\u00a0fell to 29-17 with the loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Glendora) &#8211;\u00a0Azusa Pacific led 4-0\u00a0early but couldn&#8217;t hold on as Dixie State rallied\u00a0for an 8-5 win over the Cougars Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[8971,11084,9600,8972,11200,11198,11199],"class_list":["post-47679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-azusa-pacific-baseball","tag-blake-james","tag-daniel-martin","tag-dixie-state-baseball","tag-joe-huthsing","tag-mitch-dergazarian","tag-tanner-marouche"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47679"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47732,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47679\/revisions\/47732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}