LOS ANGELES - The Whittier College baseball
team lost its seventh one-run game of the year on Friday afternoon
at Anderson Field as Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference rival Occidental College scored three runs in the bottom
of the ninth en route to the 7-6 win.
The Poets (11-24, 5-11 SCIAC) got 8.2 innings out of starting
pitcher Justin Armijo who allowed seven runs (six
earned) on 11 hits. Armijo gave way to Kevin
Pigott with two outs in the ninth but a walk and an
infield hit set up the game winning RBI single for the Tigers.
Whittier trailed 2-0 through four innings but took the lead with
a three-run fifth. Taylor Fallon hit a one-out
single and stole second base to get in scoring position for
Reed Tuttle who singled home WC's first run of the
game.
Anthony Cappelletti drove in the next run for
the purple and gold and a wild pitch plated the third score of the
inning for WC.
Whittier added to its lead with a run in the seventh inning but
Occidental answered with two runs in the bottom half of the inning
to tie the score at four.
The Poets took a two-run lead in the top of the ninth off a
Michael Benavente solo homerun and an RBI double
from Pete Mitchell but Oxy came back with the
final three runs of the game.
Whittier and Occidental finish their three-game series with a
doubleheader tomorrow, April 25, at Memorial Field. The first pitch
of Game 1 is scheduled for 11 a.m.
