By Nick Kuwano<\/p>\n
On Friday, Taft hosted College of the Siskiyous Eagles. The Cougars fell behind in the first inning after giving up 3 unearned runs on 2 errors.<\/span><\/p>\n It didn\u2019t take long for Taft to answer back as Ricky Sottile hit a solo blast in the 2nd inning which sparked an offensive surge as the cougars collected a total of 17 runs on 21 hits in 8 innings of opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n Robby Brewster cruised through 5 innings on the mound giving up no earned runs on just 3 hits while striking out 3 in route to his 2-0 record.<\/span><\/p>\n Travis Turner, Richard Ortiz, Shane Kotz, Ricky Sottile, Kaivon Kealoha, and Kyle Wedel all collected doubles.<\/span><\/p>\n Austin Pendergrass, Ortiz, and Wedel each collected 2 RBI’s a piece.<\/span><\/p>\n Robert Higgs went 2-for-5, Sottile went 3-for-5 with 3 RBI’s, and Kealoha went 5-for-6 with 4 RBI’s to help stream the offensive attack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Tyson Canfield, Caleb Newman, Spencer Throgmorton, Alfred Souza, and Brett Haney all got work on the mound to preserve the lead throughout the last 4 innings.<\/span><\/p>\n Kealoha said, “It was a great team win, to be able to go out and swing the bat the way we did was huge for us. If we keep our approach, pitchers of the opposing team will not want to pitch to us.”<\/p>\n Taft now has a 2-1 heading in tomorrow they will host Cerro Coso College. Next week they go on the road to Monterry Peninsula twice on Thursday and Saturday.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Nick Kuwano On Friday, Taft hosted College of the Siskiyous Eagles. The Cougars fell behind in the first inning after giving up 3 unearned runs on 2 errors. It didn\u2019t take long for Taft to answer back as Ricky Sottile hit a solo blast in the 2nd inning which sparked an offensive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}