BC baseball faced Golden West College, on Feb. 19 at home, winning 7-6.
Golden West was the first to make a scoring run, off a BC wild pitch. B.C. quickly matched the opposing team’s energy in the bottom of 2nd with Issac Torres (23) tying up the game.
Golden West scored in the third inning, which was once again tied up by BC in the bottom of 5th.
Golden West had an exciting 6th inning taking the lead, 5-2. In the 7th neither team scored, but B.C. would later make a thrilling comeback in their last two innings.
In the bottom of the 8th, BC’s Liam O’Reilly (44) hit one straight down right field getting two of his players to home and raising the score 5-4.
The crowd and team were chanting with excitement. With 2nd and third base loaded Dadjael Salcedo (21) made it to first, getting #44 to home and tying the score 5-5.
As the game continued with all bases loaded and Anthony Nunez (13) up to bat, Golden West’s pitcher balked, letting each BC runner advance a plate and B.C. scoring another run taking the lead 6-5.
With B.C. in the lead and bases loaded, Jordan Brito (1) advanced to 1st, off a walk, getting #21 home and making a dramatic change in score, of 7-5 to end the 8th inning.
Golden West was able to score one more run in the top of 9th but was then stopped as B.C. gets out Golden West from a catch on first base ending the game.
Pitcher Kaleb Peinado (41) said, “Well we definitely know what type of hitters they are now, so we know what to throw, what to not throw to them.”
Head Coach Kurt Townson shared his thoughts on the game and what the overall objective is for their team, “Nothing is ever easy when you have seven errors and don’t take care of the baseball, but it was a good offensive grind for our guys and an opportunity to fight our way back into that game which is good to see.”