Looking to break their three-game losing streak, the Cerritos College baseball team held on for a 4-3 non-conference win at Santa Ana College on Thursday. The Falcons (5-6) led 3-1 after six innings and after the Dons (8-3) pushed across a run in the seventh, the team responded with the eventual game-winning run in the eighth inning. Santa Ana scored a single run in the ninth inning and stranded runners at second and third base at the end of the game. Cerritos will now travel to Golden West College for a 2:00 p.m. game on Tuesday.

Sophomore starting pitcher Jared Robinson (Bishop Amat HS) made it into the ninth inning, but was pulled after a one-out single and walk. With runners at second and third base, sophomore Dylan Algra (Valley Christian HS) came on for his first releif appearance of the year. He allowed a run-scoring single to Garret Brown to put the score at 4-3 but got Julio Garcia and Philip Anderson to ground out for his first save of the season.

Cerritos took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning when freshman Kyle Carpenter (Mayfair HS) led off the game with a double and eventually came home on a sacrifice fly from sophomore Hayden Stevens (Katella HS). After Santa Ana tied the game in the second inning, the Falcons scored twice in the fourth inning. Stevens led off with a single, followed by a base hit by Robinson, with both runners advancing a base on the throw. With one out, freshman Shane Preston (Deer Creek, OK HS) drove in a run on a ground out, followed by a run-scoring single from sophomore Chris Carrillo (St. Paul HS/San Jose State University). The team's insurance run came in the eighth inning, as sophomore Jose Romero (Whittier HS) singled home sophomore Jose Ayala (Maywood Academy HS) with one out after Ayala's base hit and sacrifice bunt moved him into scoring position.

Robinson (2-2) allowed three runs (two earned), seven hits and struck out a pair of batters. He was effective in shutting down the Dons, who had runners on base in six of the innings in which he pitched. In the sixth, he saw Carrillo throw out Cameron Baranek, who was trying to steal third base, while a pair of wild pitches set the table for the second Santa Ana run.