Baseball wins conference opener

By Raul Torres

Sports Editor

Delta College beat Sacramento City College on Feb 27 at Nick Cecchetti field 5-1.

The game was the first in a series of three where Delta (15-2) played against Sacramento City College (12-3).

The Mustangs won two of the three.

Delta split the first two games at home and in Sacramento, but lost the third game at home in extra innings.

"This game was a big win for us, tone setter for our team with our first game of conference play and getting our first conference win is big," said outfielder No. 4 Dominick Pisano.

The Mustangs gave up six hits with four different pitchers in the game. The defense played tight giving up only one run all game.

Delta scored its first run in the first inning on a sac fly by their first baseman No. 23 Jake Cruce which led to shortstop No. 22 Beau Phillip scoring.

Delta also scored on a RBI by No. 19 Zach Mathis where he grounded out to second which led to No. 5 Thomas Greely scoring in the third.

The Mustangs also scored two runs on errors by Sacramento City where a ball was overthrown to first; which led to two runs coming in the fifth.

"We have to stay focused going into tomorrow and bring everything we did right into our next game tomorrow," said Pitcher No. 11 Nick Avila who was in rotation for game two  of the series and helped secure the 3-2 win for Delta.

The Mustangs are (15-2, 2-1) and second in the Big 8 Conference while Sierra College (13-4, 3-0) is in first place in the conference. The teams have a series against each other in the beginning of April.

The next game is Saturday, March 10 against Folsom Lake College at Folsom Lake. College.

This will be the third game of the three-game series against Folsom Lake College.