By Corey Kwok
(Pasadena) – La Salle, trailing 5-0 after three innings, spun off a big five run game-tying rally in the fourth, and tacked on five more in the sixth to beat St. Francis 10-6 Monday at Jackie Robinson Field.
In the fourth, Jon Krieg had a big two run triple and George Medina knocked in two with a single to fuel the rally. Medina became the Lancers’ clutch deliverer this game, zooming that two-run single with bases loaded against two outs before arising again in the sixth to single in the go-ahead run. He finished hitting 3 for 5 with three RBIs. Krieg also ended up with three RBIs after singling in Medina that inning. Alex Escobedo flew in two more on a dropped fly-ball in left field, and Chris Rabine cashed Krieg in to round it out for La Salle.
St Francis jumped out to a 4-0 lead in a topsy-turvy second inning riddled with four Lancer errors, the first of which came on Adam Shwery’s bunt towards third loaded up the bases with no outs before another on Tynan Holmstrom’s drive to third which slipped through the infielder onto left field and allowed Anders Schraer and Tommy Scheper to score. Shwery, after advancing to third on a botched rundown attempt, then struck paydirt moments later as Sean Garcia laced his first pitch over the third base side. Garcia would himself cash in soon after as a throw-in from center field (on a Kevin Baker single) went off the mark.
Sidearm righty Jordan Rodgers exited with a no-decision after five runs and 3 1/3s when putting two on with one out in the fourth. Nick Brown arrived and proved effective in shutting down the Golden Knights, as he was brushed for one late seventh-inning run (Scheper tripled to the alley before scoring on Shwery’s groundout) and just two hits to earn a win in relief.
For the Golden Knights it was their seventh consecutive loss as they fell to 2-9. La Salle overcame eight errors in the win and improved to 7-4.
LS: 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 10, 12, 8
SF: 0 4 1 0 0 0 1 6, 7, 4
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