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CCCC goes 1-3 in Bash at Beach: Sayas, Saville have big weekend

By Kyle Kensing, Sports Editor, The Daily Independent

Daily Independent photo by Mile Delaney
Shortstop Mark Sayas

Cerro Coso baseball got off to a sluggish start Friday and Saturday in the Bash at the Beach Tournament, but in the final day of action got the bats going in a 16-2 win over Los Angeles Mission.

Left fielder Paul Saville capped off a .550 hitting weekend in the win with a four-RBI performance.

Shortstop Mark Sayas, who also batted .550 over the weekend, went 4-7 with an RBI against LA Mission.

“We put it together,” said head coach Dick Adams. “Mission got the frustration dumped on them.”

The Coyotes, who had trouble producing runs in the tournament’s three previous games, struck for runs in the first, third, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth innings.

“We kept the pressure on them the whole game,” Adams said.

Infielder Cody Reiger provided a big bat, going 2-4 with four RBIs.

Getting the win for Cerro Coso was Adam Garner.

The sophomore from Toronto gave up just three hits through innings, while striking out five.

Garner continued a trend of Coso starters putting on strong performances.

In the tournament’s opening round against Ventura, starter Ryan Short allowed four hits and two earned runs in five and two-thirds innnings of work, including five shutout innings.

In addition to solid pitching, Short got great contributions from his defense, Adams said.

“We played great defense.”

“We played great defense,” Adams said. “Saville made two great catches. One he laid out horizontal in left-center in the third [inning] to save two runs.”

However, in what would become an unsettling pattern in the Dawgs’ three losses, Ventura exploded for four runs against the Coso bullpen, and went on to win 6-1.

Two of Ventura’s late runs came on passed balls.

In the second half of Friday’s doubleheader, Coso found more of the same - strong starting pitching, a difficult time at the plate, and a late rally for the opponent.

Kade McAllister went five innings, giving up one earned run on three hits, with four strikeouts.

Jessie Zuber had a rough outing in relief, however, giving up eight runs - four of them earned - in the 11-1 loss.

The Coyotes put up a great effort in Saturday’s contest with Santa Barbara, but a late rally fell short in a 12-8 decision.

Coso tacked on four runs in the ninth inning, but after spotting Santa Barbara three in the eighth, it wasn’t enough.

Sayas went 4-6 on the day, while right fielder and local product Tyler Curran went 3-5 with an RBI.

Pitcher Aaron Keplinger pitched five and two-thirds innings, and came out in a 3-3 tie.

“That makes three games we’re right in it through five [innings],” Adams said.

Adams said in these early season appearances, his starters do not go over a 75-pitch count, but next weekend when the Dawgs face off with College of the Canyons, Glendale, and Los Angeles Pierce, that number should climb to 85 or 90.

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

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