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PASADENA, Calif. – The Whittier College baseball team completed the three game sweep of Caltech Saturday as they earned victories of 13-2 and 10-4.
This marks the first sweep for the Purple & Gold this season as they improve to 8-24, 6-15 SCIAC.
Game 1 (Whittier – 13, Caltech – 2)
After earning a 17-0 victory in game of the series, the Poets continued with their hot hitting getting 13 runs on 10 hits with seven of the 13 runs coming in the first three innings.
In the first inning the Poets brought around two. Ben Cerami (Berkeley, Calif.) walked in the first run and Matthew Macey (Oceanside, Calif.) drove in the second with a sacrifice fly.
They brought around another three the very next inning with a sac fly from Cody Martinez (Whittier, Calif.) and a Cerami single to left that moved the score to 5-0. The Beavers though came back to pull within three in the bottom half of the inning capitalizing on a Poet error and getting a leadoff double from Daniel Chou.
But those would be the final runs CIT would bring across as Whittier would get another two in the third coming off of three errors.
Leading 7-2, WC would put together a seven spot in the seventh bringing across six runs on five hits and using five Beaver errors to put the game away. During the rally, Jonathan Whipple (Sandy, UT), Stephen Zavala (Whittier, Calif.), Martinez, Cerami, and Macey would all single.
Thomas Hemington (Sacramento, Calif.) earned the win improving to 2-3 on the season as he threw 6.0 innings giving up two unearned runs, while striking out six.
Whipple finished 3-4 with four runs scored. Zavala was 2-4 with three runs scored. Cerami was 2-3 with a run scored and four RBI's, and Macey was 2-4 with a run scored and an RBI.
Game 2 (Whittier – 10, Caltech – 4)
Game two was like the first with Whittier holding a 10-0 lead in the ninth after collecting 16 hits.
Justin Ushio (Mililani, HI) threw lights out going 6.0 innings giving up just five hits en route to his first win on the season. Zavala was 2-4 on the day with two runs scored, two RBI's, and a triple, while Cerami was 3-5 with a run scored.
Caltech managed to get on the scoreboard in the ninth getting after Cerami bringing across four runs on four hits and using three walks but it wouldn't be enough to overcome the six run deficit.
Whittier begins a three game series with Claremont-M-S this weekend as they travel on Friday, April 17 to Claremont, Calif. for game one beginning at 3:00pm before returning the next day, Saturday, April 18 to Memorial Field for senior day and a doubleheader with first pitches set for 11:00am and 2:00pm.
