Riverside Defeats Cypress in Baseball

Freshman left-hander Rick Sanders pitched a six-hitter as Riverside defeated first-place Cypress, 7-3, in an Orange Empire Conference baseball game Thursday in Riverside.

Sanders had six strikeouts for the Tigers (14-10, 6-5 in conference).

Kelvin Day and Wayne Stone hit home runs for Riverside, which scored three times in the sixth inning to take a 7-1 lead.

Shaun Larkin and Michael Duursma each had doubles and Larkin and Corey Sullivan drove in one run each for Cypress (17-6-1, 7-2), the top-ranked team in Southern California.

Cypress Coach Scott Pickler said it rained during most of the bus ride to Riverside.

“I was surprised we played,” he said, “I just couldn’t get the guys going.”

Orange Coast’s game at Santa Ana and Golden West’s game at Saddleback were rained out and rescheduled for 2 p.m. today.