After scoring a single run in the top of the sixth inning to get to within 2-1, the Cerritos College baseball team allowed College of the Canyons to score three runs in the bottom of the stanza. The end result was a 5-1, seven-inning game that was shortened due to rain, which drops the Falcons record to 1-3 on the season. The team will host Golden West College at 2:00 p.m. in a non-conference game on Tuesday.

Trailing 2-0 heading into the sixth inning, freshman Joseph Rivera (Savanna HS) and Hayden Stevens (Katella HS) led off with consecutive singles. But a double play resulted in Rivera advancing to third base, where he scored on an infield single by freshman Jared Robinson (Bishop Amat HS). But that would be all the offense Cerritos would generate, as they left a pair of runners on base in the first inning and made the third out at home in the fifth inning when freshman Jacob Valdez (Katella HS) tried to score from second base on a single by freshman Johnny Martinez (Katella HS).

Robinson, who was also the starting pitcher, allowed a pair of first inning runs and then sat down 16 of the next 17 batters until an ill-fated one-out single in the sixth inning. A walk was followed by a run-scoring base hit, which resulted in freshman Christian Smith (Garden Grove HS). After getting a comebacker, Smith surrendered a two-run double to Kamran Young, which made the score, 5-1.

Photo by Daryl Peterson