Owls Lose Heartbreaker in 14 Innings
| Final (14) | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | R | H | E | |
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LA Mission | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 2 |
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Citrus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 3 |
Glendora, CA — With a potential post-season berth on the line it took 14 innings to determine a winner on Tuesday afternoon when the Citrus College Baseball team played host to Los Angeles Mission College. The Owls and Eagles traded haymakers left and right, but Mission eventually ended up on top winning with a score in the top of the 14th 4-3.
Citrus landed the first blow with a run in the bottom of the first. Sophomore Troy Resch led things off with a two-out double. Two pitchers later sophomore Brendan Campbell went to the opposite field with a single up the right field line that scored Resch and made it 1-0.
The Eagles would answer and tie it up with a score in the top of the second, and then take their first lead of the day with another single run in the top of the third. Citrus would tie things up in the bottom of the sixth, when sophomore Mark Segat plated Campbell with a single to center field.
LA Mission would take the lead back in the top of the eighth, scoring on a squeeze play. That would take the Owls to the bottom of the ninth where this missed a chance to tie things up when sophomore Shawn Sweeney was thrown out at home trying to score from third on a fly out to left by Resch. Campbell would save the a pitch later, when he doubled down the left field line to send the game to extra innings.
In extra innings, Citrus failed to put a single runner on the base paths in five innings of play. Mission was only a little better, but got a big play when they needed it, scoring the aforementioned go ahead run in the 14th.
In the loss, Citrus was paced by Campbell who was 3 for 6. Segat and Resch were the only other Owls to have more than one hit in the loss, as both went 2 for 6.
With the loss, Citrus falls to 18-15-1 overall and 11-8 in WSC South play. The loss doesn't quite eliminate Citrus from post-season competition, but it does make it so that the Owls need a lot of help. Citrus would need Mission and Valley to lose at least one of their final two, but first need to take care of their own business when they close out the season with a home and away with West Los Angeles College. The first of the final two games is Thursday at Citrus, with a 2:30 first pitch.