BC BASEBALL SNAPS SADDLEBACK'S SEVEN GAME STREAK!!

Austin Toerner and Monty Stevens were stingy from the mound, allowing just four hits to powerhouse Saddleback.
Austin Toerner and Monty Stevens were stingy from the mound, allowing just four hits to powerhouse Saddleback.

BC Baseball (12-9) finished the College of the Sequoias Tournament on a high note with a 4-3 victory over Saddleback College (17-4). 


The win broke Saddleback's seven game winning streak, and displayed BC's resilience just one day after a disappointing 12-4 loss at Reedley on day two of the COS Tourney. 

Harrison Smith drilled a clutch eighth inning RBI double and pitchers Monty Stevens and Austin Toerner combined to allow just four hits as Bakersfield College defeated Saddleback College 4-3 in non-league play at Gerry Collis on Thursday.
 
The Renegades rallied from a 3-2 deficit to tie things in the fifth inning on Luis Martinez's two-out RBI single and then Smith delivered the game-winning hit three innings later with a long drive over the Saddleback centerfielder's head that scored Jacob Herrera from second base.
 
Smith's second double of the game made a winner out of Toerner (2-1), who pitched two scoreless innings of relief.
 
Stevens started on the mound for BC (12-9). The 6-foot-3 freshman right-hander scattered three hits and issued four walks during seven innings of work. Only one of the three runs he allowed was earned.
 
"Monty did a good job," BC coach Tim Painton said. "He kept us in the ballgame and Toerner was very, very good at the end. Obviously Smith coming up with that double in the eighth inning was big."
 
Five of the Renegades seven hits were for extra bases. Hanz Harker went 2 for 4 with a triple and a double. The BC centerfielder knocked in one run and scored a run.
 
The Renegades scored one run in each of the first two innings to take an early 2-0 lead.
 
But Saddleback (17-4) exploded for three runs in the third to go ahead 3-2, setting the stage for Smith's late-game heroics.
 
"Great at bat," Painton said. "…It was a good win for us. The tone was set kind of set by the pitching."
 
All four of BC's runs were made possible by extra base hits.
 
Harker tripled in a run in the first after leadoff hitter Brooks Douglass reached base on a fielding error.
 
The Renegades' second-inning run came on Tyson Brewer's RBI double to the right-center gap.
 
Martinez's team-leading 23 RBI of the season in the fifth came immediately after Harker's double.
 
Jordan Scheftz pitched three innings of relief and took the loss, Saddleback's first in eight games.
 
Smith's eighth-inning double was the only hit he allowed.
 
Gauchos starting pitcher Jackson Rees pitched five innings in which he gave up three runs (two earned) on six hits and two walks.