The American River College baseball team scored a victory over Galivan College, winning 11-18 in the last game of the season on April 24.
Gavilan started the first inning with a run, with the Beavers scoring a run of their own in the bottom of the second inning off a hit from shortstop Lane Field.
In the third inning, Gavilan got a run after a walk with the bases loaded, to which the Beavers responded with three runs of their own, followed by another run in the fourth inning.
The Beavers loaded up the bases in the bottom of the fifth, leading to runs from Field and second baseman Christian Murua, followed by two more runs off of a hit from third baseman Will Floyd.
They lost their lead in the sixth inning however, with Gavilan scoring eight runs, leading to a 10-10 score at the end of the sixth inning, resetting the game.
Shortstop Matt Clarke, who is moving on to University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, noted that despite this shortcoming, the team did not lose focus.
“We made a couple of mistakes but for the most part I felt like we were pretty much in control,” Clarke said. “We had one bad inning, but other than that we kept pressing on.”
Gavilan scored another run in the seventh inning off a hit from their center field Justin Nelson, to which the Beavers responded with a triple off of a hit from outfielder Logan Hall, followed by two runs off a hit from outfielder Justin Bejarano, two more from Field and a walk after that, resulting in the eventual final score of 18-11.
Far from a clean win, but assistant coach Preston Vancil said he was overall content with the team’s performance.
“Anybody that was here for nine innings got to see a pretty sloppy college baseball game, unfortunately,” Vancil said. “At the same time, I’ll take a sloppy win over a clean loss any day of the week.”
The Beavers end their season with an overall record of 14-25, finishing 8th in the Big 8 with a conference record of 8-16.
