One Big Inning Turns It Around for Pierce, 12-5 : College baseball: Brahmas score 10 runs against Glendale in the fourth with 10 hits. Warren goes the distance.

Nothing like batting around in an inning to make life easier for a pitcher. Or unbearable, depending on which side the pitcher is on.

Pierce College right-hander Jason Warren was the beneficiary of a hitting frenzy by his teammates as the Brahmas cruised to a 12-5 victory over visiting Glendale in a Western State Conference South Division game Thursday.

The Brahmas (9-8, 5-3 in division play) sent 16 men to the plate in the fourth inning and turned a 4-2 deficit into a 12-4 advantage that gave Warren (3-1) all the offensive help he needed.

Warren, a 6-foot-3 freshman from Agoura High, gave up 10 hits but gave up only two earned runs in pitching Pierce’s first complete game. He walked two and struck out one.

“What a pleasant surprise he has been,” Pierce Coach Bob Lofrano said. “He mixed his pitches well today. He did a real creditable job.”

Pierce broke open the game with 10 hits in the fourth--including four doubles and a triple--and with the aid of three errors.

The big blows were a two-run single by catcher Heath McElwee and a triple and a single by left fielder John Novak that each produced a run. Center fielder Brian Basowski also had two hits in the inning, the second an RBI double that gave the Brahmas their final run.

Left-hander Josh Parker (2-2) couldn’t record an out and was charged with six of the runs. Reliever Bryan Warner worked one-third of an inning and gave up the other four runs before right-hander Chris Padron ended the carnage.

Padron, who started at third base, gave Glendale (7-9, 5-3) a 2-0 lead with a home run over the left-field fence in the second. He doubled with two out in the fifth but was stranded at second.

A single by right-fielder Armando Mesa and a groundout by second baseman Ed Gillis produced two Glendale runs in the fourth.

Basowski and first baseman Kevin Milligan each had three hits for Pierce, and McElwee had three RBIs. Glendale catcher Andy Reitz went two for three, including a double.