Baseball Drops Game 1 to Canyons
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
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Citrus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 0 |
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Canyons | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 10 | 10 | 2 |
Baseball traveled to College of the Canyons for game one of their three game series with the Cougars, falling 10-5.
Citrus College goes to 8-11 overall on the season and 3-1 in conference games, while College of the Canyons moves to 5-13 overall and 1-3 in conference.
The Owls scored in the top of the first inning off a Jordan Quintero RBI double to drive in Nathan Hellein, to go up 1-0. The Cougars responded by put up nine runs combined in the first and second innings to take a 9-1 lead.
Jordan Quintero crushed his first home run of the season, a three-run home run in the top of the fifth inning to make the score 9-4. In the top of the sixth inning, Quintero knocked in his fifth RBI of the game with a single to left field that scored Nathan Hellein as the Owls trailed 9-5.
Canyons added one more run in bottom of the eighth inning to secure the 10-5 win.
Citrus and Canyons will meet again tomorrow, March 13th for game two at Citrus College. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.