BBCC baseball looks to end skid
BOB KIRKPATRICK | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 13 years, 10 months AGO
Big Bend BBCC Vikings Baseball
MOSES LAKE - The Vikings are seeking to end their three-game losing streak when the team hosts Blue Mountain Community College in doubleheader action Saturday.
Big Bend Community College (BBCC) last win came at home against Wenatchee Valley Community College (WVCC) in the first game of a twin bill when the Vikings beat the Knights 12-4 April 1. BBCC lost the second game 12-3.
Neither team put a run on the board in the first two innings. BBCC scored one in the top of the third to go up 1-0. WVCC got a run back in the bottom of the inning to tie the game 1-1.
The Vikings brought a runner across the plate to regain the lead in the top of the fourth, 2-1. The Knights blew the game open with seven runs in the bottom of the fifth to race out front 8-2. BBCC got one back in the top of the sixth, but a four run seventh inning for the WVCC sealed the deal on a 12-3 victory.
Jacob Daniels took the loss for the Vikings.
SPOKANE - Big Bend hit the road looking to get back on the winning track with two games against the Spokane Sasquatch, but dropped both contests to fall to 3-3 in conference play.
Spokane 9
BBCC 7
The Sasquatch took an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning, but the Vikings answered back with a run in the top of the second to tie the game 1-1.
The lead held up until the bottom of the third when Spokane pushed three runs across the plate to go back on top 4-1.
The Vikings took their first lead of the game, 5-4, with four runs in the top of the fourth. They got another run in the seventh and one in the eighth to widened the margin 7-4.
But a five-run eighth inning for the Sasquatch was the undoing for BBCC as the Knights came back for the win, 9-7.
Chris Walker led the charge for the Vikings with three hits in five plate appearance and two runs scored. Syd Hall was tagged with the loss for the Vikings.
Spokane 1
BBCC 0
The second game of the twin bill was scoreless through three and a half innings.
The lone run of the game came in the bottom of the fourth when Spokane's Anthony Pitsch touched home after a bases loaded walk to Colin Peterson to give the Sasquatch the win.
Danny Greenway took the loss for BBCC. D.J. Smith got the win for Spokane, giving up one run off five hits and fanning 10 Viking batters.
BBCC gets a chance to right the ship Saturday when the Vikings host a doubleheader against Blue Mountain Community College. The first game is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.
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