AZUSA, Calif. – The University of Redlands baseball team (17-16, 9-12) lost game one of their Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) doubleheader at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) 9-6 and got run-ruled 13-3 in game two.
Game 1 (Redlands 6 – CMS 9)
Mason Chetcuti made it 1-0 Bulldogs in the first inning with an RBI infield single to second that allowed Luke De Vries to score.
That was the lone lead of the game for Redlands as CMS came back to score the next seven runs and held that six-run lead until the fifth when Tyler Preece singled to center field and brought around Sean McCance.
The Bulldogs continued to chip away in the sixth with a Will Daniels sacrifice fly to right as Nathan Miller scored to make it a 7-3 deficit.
Following another scoreless inning from the bullpen, this time from Jack Brown, Redlands were able to double their run total to six as they got within one, 7-6.
The three-run seventh came from Sebastian Mejorado who scored on a passed ball, Gabriel Ceja who singled to center and brought home Chetcuti, and then Miller scored on a second passed ball.
Those three runs, though, were the final runs of the game for the Bulldogs as they would allow two final runs to the Stags as the series was evened at one game apiece.
Ceja led the way by reaching four times thanks to three hits and a walk. Chetcuti had two hits, a run scored, and RBI. Preece reached three times with a hit and two walks.
Kethan Eron was the first out of the bullpen and he threw 3.2 scoreless innings on only 36 pitches. Ryan Rhoades made his first appearance in a month and threw the final 0.2 innings with no runs allowed.
Game 2 (Redlands 3 – CMS 13 – 7 Innings)
After conceding another early lead to the Stags, the Bulldogs scored three times in the third to reduce their deficit from 4-0 to 4-3.
Tyler Preece got Redlands on the board with an RBI-double to left that scored Will Cell. Mejorado then grounded out and allowed Jared Anderson to take the final 90 feet. The last run of the inning came thanks to a clutch two-out single from Chetcuti.
CMS responded an inning later in the fourth with five runs on three hits. They then put the game away in the fifth when they pushed four across the plate on five hits.
In the final three innings the Bulldog offense managed only two hits, both singles, as they were unable to cut into the 10-run lead to avoid the run-rule finish.
Anderson and Ceja went 2-for-4 and 2-for-3. Gavin Duenez finished the final 1.1 innings without allowing a run and struck out two Stags after the previous three pitchers combined for 13 runs allowed in 4.2 innings.
Redlands will head to Washington for a four-game series against Whitman College this coming Friday-Saturday, April 19-20. These are their final non-conference games of the season and the first true road games. First pitch of game one both days is at 12:00 p.m. (noon).