{"id":3143,"date":"2016-04-07T06:47:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T14:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-production.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2016-04-07T06:47:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T14:47:58","slug":"cougar-baseball-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/blog\/2016\/04\/07\/cougar-baseball-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar Baseball Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">By Nick Kawano<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">The Cougars emerged victorious through a dramatic finish against conference rival College of the Sequoias Giants in the series rubber match.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">Richard Ortiz took a fastball to the elbow with a tie game, 0-2 count, and two outs with bases loaded in the ninth to bring home Travis Turner who represented the game\u2019s walk off run.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">A single by Turner, Austin Pendergrass getting hit by a pitch, and a base on balls for Luke Lubiniecki set up the game\u2019s final plate appearance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">Early in the game, defensive miscues hurt the Cougars when the Giants snagged two unearned runs in the first off sophomore starting pitcher Robby Brewster. However that didn\u2019t shake him at all, Brewster cleaned up well allowing no runs and just one hit in innings two and three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">This momentum created a big scoring opportunity in the third. Kaivon Kealoha, Ricky Sottile, Austin Pendergrass, and Lubiniecki manufactured Taft\u2019s first run on four consecutive singles to start off the inning. However the inning ended with bases loaded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">Brewster continued to shove innings four through six allowing 1 run on 2 hits to keep his team within striking distance before being relieved. He struck out 4 Giant batters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">Matt Rogers pitched innings 7 through 9 allowing no runs on just 3 hits to hold Sequoias.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">Brendan Halstrom drove in Pendergrass and Lubiniecki with a clutch 2 out, 2 RBI base hit in the eighth to tie the game at 3, setting up the home half of the ninth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">Turner and Halstrom each collected 2 hits apiece, Halstrom had a double and four other Cougars collected a single.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">The Cougars will square off against Cerro Coso College at Ridgecrest on Thursday April 7 before heading into their final conference stretch starting Tuesday April 12 at Fresno City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nick Kawano  The Cougars emerged victorious through a dramatic finish against conference rival College of the Sequoias Giants in the series rubber match.\u00a0  Richard Ortiz took a fastball to the elbow with a tie game, 0-2 count, and two outs with bases loaded in the ninth to bring home Travis Turner who<\/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-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","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=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}