Cedar Valley Tops First Ranked Opponent of Season
IRVING, Texas – Dallas College Cedar Valley's baseball team bounced back for a 10-6 win over No. 6 Dallas College North Lake Friday in the final game of a Dallas Athletic Conference series.
The Suns (15-26, 4-17 DAC) scored seven runs in the sixth through eighth innings to pull away from the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III-ranked Blazers, securing retribution after dropping the first two games this series.
It was Cedar Valley's first win over a ranked opponent this season.
Easton Bettcher and Kai Kirchheiner each had three hits – one of Kircheiner's a triple. He drove in a run. Hill Wiley and Julio Cuotto each drove in a pair of runs. Wiley had two hits.
Miguel Perez (2-3) pitched the last 4 1/3 innings, giving up two runs on five hits and a walk to earn the win.
With the Suns trailing by a run entering the top of the sixth, Bettcher singled to open the inning. Kirchheiner tripled him home to tie the game at 4. Wiley's RBI single to right gave Cedar Valley the go-ahead run. Joshawa Esquivel's fielder's choice RBI and Hudson's run-scoring single to right scored Kane Whitney to make it 7-4.
North Lake took a 4-3 lead in the second on Cyler Moore's 10th home run of the season – a three-run shot to right.
The Suns extended their lead with a pair of runs in the seventh on RBI groundouts by Anthony Fuentes and Carson Daniels. Moore drove in another run for the Blazers (22-22, 12-9) before Issac Garcia's groundout scored Jesse Orozco. That cut the gap to 9-6 in the bottom of the seventh.
But Wiley delivered again in the eighth, lining a ball into left to score Bettcher to push the lead out to four.
Perez retired six of the last eight batters he faced to put it in the books.
Moore was 2 for 4 with four RBI, and Salavador De La Garza and Brayden McCallum each were 2 for 3 with two walks for the Blazers.
Cedar Valley will meet Dallas College Richland, which sits alone in second place in the DAC entering Saturday's series finale against Dallas College Brookhaven, in a three-game series beginning Wednesday on the road. The final two games will be played at Lancaster High School – Cedar Valley's home field this season.