Orange County College Baseball : Titans Complete Sweep of UNLV : Fullerton’s Five-Run Seventh Leads to a 7-3 PCAA Win

Cal State Fullerton scored five runs in the seventh inning and defeated Nevada Las Vegas, 7-3, Sunday to complete a sweep of the three-game Pacific Coast Athletic Assn. baseball series at Las Vegas.

It was the second consecutive sweep for Fullerton (8-1, 29-12), which won, 24-10, Friday and, 15-10, Saturday. The Titans, who swept Cal State Long Beach last weekend, are in first place in the PCAA with a two-game lead over UC Irvine.

Las Vegas (4-5, 21-16) had scored three unearned runs in the third inning off winning pitcher Larry Casian, who walked the first two batters. After a sacrifice, Fullerton third baseman Tony Trevino made a two-base throwing error on a ground ball hit by Brian Arnold.

Arnold then scored on David Baxter’s ground out to give the Runnin’ Rebels a 3-0 lead.

Fullerton came back in the fourth, when Trevino singled and scored on an error by second baseman Ted Williams to cut the lead to 3-1. In the sixth, Ken Garcia was hit by a pitch, then he stole second and scored on Andy Mota’s single and Fullerton trailed, 3-2.

Greg Mannion led off the seventh with a single and moved to third on two ground outs. Keith Kaub hit a ground ball that shortstop Tony Aquino misplayed for an error, and Mannion scored to tie the score, 3-3.

Garcia doubled, sending Kaub to third, and Mota’s infield single scored Kaub. Mike Ham’s single scored Garcia to give Fullerton a 5-3 lead. Mark Razook and Mark Baca also had RBI singles in the inning.

Casian, a senior left-hander, threw his third consecutive complete game as he improved to 6-1. He had five strikeouts and allowed five hits.

Fullerton will take on second-place UC Irvine in a three-game series starting Thursday at 7 p.m. at Irvine. The teams will play again Friday at 7 p.m., and the series will conclude Saturday at 1 p.m.

In other PCAA play:

UC Irvine 7, Cal State Long Beach 5 (13 innings)--Doug Kline led off the 13th with his second home run of the game, and Stacy Parker later had an RBI double for the Anteaters (6-3, 19-18-1) who completed a sweep of the three-game series at Long Beach.

UCI trailed, 5-3, in the eighth, but Kline hit a home run, his first of the season, to cut the lead to 5-4. Pinch-hitter Osmar De Chavez led off the ninth with a single and pinch-runner Marcus Robinson scored the trying run on a two-out single by Rory Valasek.

Irvine starter Dean Douty allowed five runs in the first three innings but didn’t allow any after that. He was replaced in the 11th by Sam Maatallah (3-2) who picked up the victory. Dwight Choyce (2-6) took the loss for Long Beach (1-8, 10-32-1), which has lost eight consecutive PCAA games.