COLLEGE ROUNDUP : Moorpark Beats Mission for 2nd Time in 6 Days

In its final tuneup before journeying north to Santa Maria for the eight-team Central Coast tournament, the Moorpark College baseball team put its whole game together Thursday against Mission.

The Raiders, behind the pitching of Steve Biggs and Rob Teasdale and a 15-hit attack, defeated the Free Spirit, 8-2, in a nonconference game at Valley College.

Moorpark improved to 4-2. Mission is 4-3.

The victory was Moorpark’s second win against the Free Spirit in six days. On Saturday, Moorpark’s Jeff Berman threw a shutout in the Raiders’ 1-0 win.

Moorpark outfielder Darren Aurand had three hits Thursday and drove in three runs. Marcus Lockwood, a sophomore catcher who did not enter the game until the fifth inning, had a solo home run in the seventh and a double in the ninth that drove in the Raiders’ final two runs.

“We’ve been struggling a little to get the good pitching and hitting at the same time,” said Lockwood, whose homer started a three-run rally. “This is a good way for us to start the tournament, then come back for conference.”

Biggs did not allow a run or a hit in 4 1/3 innings, but he did walk four and hit two batters. Teasdale did not allow a hit until the seventh inning when Bruce Gomez singled to left.

The game’s key play occurred in the bottom of the fifth inning with no outs and Moorpark leading, 3-0.

Biggs loaded the bases by issuing consecutive walks to Gomez and Mike Rogers and then hitting Brad McGahan with a pitch.

Teasdale relieved Biggs and induced Rich Ortiz to hit a ground ball to second. Gomez crossed the plate as Moorpark second baseman Mike Suarez fielded the ball and flipped it to shortstop Dan Smith. When Smith’s relay bounced past first baseman Hank Shelb, Rogers crossed the plate. The umpires, however, ruled that McGahan interfered with Smith’s throw. McGahan and Ortiz were called out and Gomez and Rogers were sent back to third and second, respectively.

Teasdale got Dave Turner to fly out to left to end Mission’s threat.

-- GARY KLEIN

In other baseball games:

Cal Lutheran 12, Chapman 9--Cal Lutheran’s Peter Washington might have hurt his .611 batting average with a three-for-five performance, but he hit his third home run of the season, a two-run blast in the first inning of the nonconference game.

Canyons 12, Rancho Santiago 3--Catcher Robert Trujillo went two for four, including a double and a home run, to pace the Cougars (5-1) in the first round of the Casey Stengel tournament at Rancho Santiago.

Sophomore Mike Teich (3-0), who was relieved in the ninth inning, struck out seven and did not allow Rancho Santiago (8-1) a hit until the fifth.

L.A. City 14, Valley 9--Left fielder E.J. Pape hit a two-run home run in the top of the third inning to give visiting Valley a 5-3 lead, but L.A. City (2-3) bounced back with two runs in the bottom half and six more in the fourth in the nonconference game.

Cal Baptist 9, The Master’s 6--Tony Jaime drove in three runs with a double and a home run in a losing nonconference game at Cal Baptist.

SOFTBALL

Cal Poly Pomona 1-1, Cal State Northridge 0-0--Lisa Erickson had two of the Matadors five hits on the day in a losing nonconference effort at Cal Poly Pomona.

SWIMMING

CCAA championships--The Cal State Northridge women’s swimming team stands second and the men are third after the first day of the four-day California Collegiate Athletic Assn. meet at Cal State Bakersfield.

Northridge’s only individual winners were Kathy Ruiz in the 200-yard individual medley and Toady Kimble in the 50 freestyle.