2008 Woodie Awards
Baseball team captures season opener at home
GOOD START: EC beats Pasadena City during the first conference game of the year.
By: David Lopez
Issue date: 3/3/05 Section: Sports
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Great hitting combined with stellar pitching is all the Warriors baseball team needed to win its first conference game of the season, against Pasadena 7-2.
The team will now take its fourgame winning streak on consecutive road games when they play Saturday at noon against Cerritos College.
"We split two games against Cerritos in the fall, and they're obviously a much better team than Pasadena," coach Tom Bergeron said. "We're playing at their place so it should be a good ball game."
EC will travel Tuesday to play against Los Angeles City College at 2 p.m.
The Warriors' offense scored a run in the second inning, three in the fifth and seventh innings and recorded 13 hits to take a 7-2 victory against the Lancers at home.
Despite allowing two runs in the top of the ninth inning, the Warriors' bullpen controlled the tempo of the game as starting pitcher Jeff McKinley contributed five strikeouts in his six scoreless innings, allowing only three hits, no walks and zero runs.
"McKinley came out very solid," Bergeron said. "He mixed up his pitches pretty well, and was able to dominate their batters. Overall, the pitching came out strong."
The bullpen, which relieved McKinley in the seventh inning, kept Pasadena at only two runs on three hits, and issued two walks while striking out one.
"As a pitcher, you have to get ahead of the count," McKinley said. "We were able to get some groundballs and our infield was able to do the rest as we had great defense."
Defense was not the only contributing factor to the EC win.
Infielder Mike Zaunich led the way for Warriors, as he went three for four collecting an RBI, a triple, two doubles, and scored three of the seven runs.
"I'm just looking to drive the ball at every at bat," Zaunich said. "I just have to get more comfortable on my stance and go from there."
Not far behind him was catcher Felipe Aguilar who also went three for four driving in two runs on three singles
The team will now take its fourgame winning streak on consecutive road games when they play Saturday at noon against Cerritos College.
"We split two games against Cerritos in the fall, and they're obviously a much better team than Pasadena," coach Tom Bergeron said. "We're playing at their place so it should be a good ball game."
EC will travel Tuesday to play against Los Angeles City College at 2 p.m.
The Warriors' offense scored a run in the second inning, three in the fifth and seventh innings and recorded 13 hits to take a 7-2 victory against the Lancers at home.
Despite allowing two runs in the top of the ninth inning, the Warriors' bullpen controlled the tempo of the game as starting pitcher Jeff McKinley contributed five strikeouts in his six scoreless innings, allowing only three hits, no walks and zero runs.
"McKinley came out very solid," Bergeron said. "He mixed up his pitches pretty well, and was able to dominate their batters. Overall, the pitching came out strong."
The bullpen, which relieved McKinley in the seventh inning, kept Pasadena at only two runs on three hits, and issued two walks while striking out one.
"As a pitcher, you have to get ahead of the count," McKinley said. "We were able to get some groundballs and our infield was able to do the rest as we had great defense."
Defense was not the only contributing factor to the EC win.
Infielder Mike Zaunich led the way for Warriors, as he went three for four collecting an RBI, a triple, two doubles, and scored three of the seven runs.
"I'm just looking to drive the ball at every at bat," Zaunich said. "I just have to get more comfortable on my stance and go from there."
Not far behind him was catcher Felipe Aguilar who also went three for four driving in two runs on three singles