The Pride

Issue date: 3/18/08 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Tim Moore Pitcher, Chris Skaalen works his way to a winning outing in game one of the Sunday doubleheader

Cougar baseball started the week off slow with two tough losses, but rebounded with a double-header victory over La Sierra on Sunday.

In the first game of the week, the Cougars played against Vanguard in a pitchers duel that resulted in a 1-0 loss.

SP Jared Suwyn pitched seven strong innings giving up only three hits and one run, but gave up the only score of the game to lose his first game of the year. The only score of the game came in the bottom of the 5th inning when LF Black hit an RBI double.

Although the Cougars had seven hits, no runs would come to fruition and the Cougars would be shut out in a tough, gritty game.

The Cougars would face Chapman University next in a game that proved to have more offense, but the same result for the Cougars.

SP Steve Triolo for the Cougars would only last one inning giving up three runs on three hits to start the Cougars off with a deficit.

After the Cougars came back to take the lead 4-3, Chapman would explode for six runs in the bottom of the third. Scoring in a number of ways in the inning from a sacrifice bunt to a two-run homerun by RF Mike Vass.

The Cougars would make a late push in the final two innings scoring two run each inning. In the top of the 8th, LF Jackson Chapelone would hit a two-run homerun to cut Chapman's lead to 11-6. LF Chapelone would strike again in the 9th with a double to right center to score another run.

The Cougars comeback would come too little too late with an 11-8 loss on the road.
Coming off back-to-back losses, the Cougars would blowout La Sierra in the first game of a double-header 16-1 in a seven-inning game.

Starting off strong, the Cougars lead off the game with six runs in the bottom of the 1st. LF Jared Suwyn would knock in two runs on an RBI single, 3B Austin Coleman hit an RBI double, and SS Johnny Omahen hit a two-RBI single to put the Cougars up 6-0 in the 1st.

The offensive attack would keep rolling with a two-RBI single by RF Terry Moritz to put the Cougars up 11-1. Tacking on five more runs in the game, the Cougars led by SP Chris Skaalen, who won his first game of the year, would win 16-1.

In the final game of the week and of the double-header, the Cougars would hit double digits again in another win against La Sierra.

The offense would come on strong early again scoring 10 of their 11 runs in the first three innings.

Already up 8-0, CF Jason Hinton would hit a two-run home run to put them up 10-0 with an insurmountable lead.

La Sierra would score six runs by the end of the sixth inning but it would not be enough to outscore the offense of the Cougars.

Improving their record to (10-11), the Cougars will play Tuesday against Masters College at 12:00 PM at Escondido High School.

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