Three Home Runs in the Second lead the Cardinals over Cecil College

CATONSVILLE, Md. – The CCBC Cardinals baseball team defeated Cecil College with the final score of 19-9 in seven innings on Thursday afternoon. An eight-run inning, including three homeruns in the second fueled the Cardinals to their 18^th win of the season, they swept the season series against the Seahawks.

LINESCORE: Cardinals 19 (18-18, 9-7), Seahawks 9 (4-25-1, 3-15). WP- Travis Weaver (3-6), LP- Jaily Paredes (0-6)

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Cardinals' bats were hot all afternoon starting with all nine batters coming to bat in the first and five crossing home plate to give the Cardinals a 5-0 lead after one.
• The big inning came in the second and it started with leadoff hitter Zeke Maldonado sailed a ball past the trees in left field to increase the Cardinals lead.
• Aronne Dutton followed up with a walk and came around to score on a two-run home run by Moises Aristy Jr.
• Julio Aguilar Yon followed up the Aristy Jr. home run with a solo home run of his own as the first four batters of the inning came around to score for the Cardinals.
• Later in the inning, Gabe Andreyev drove in two on a single as the Cardinals took a commanding 12-0 lead.
• In total 12 batters came to bat in the inning for the Cardinals, scoring eight.
• The Cardinals scored three more and had a 16-0 lead going into the fifth when the Seahawks rallied to score seven in the inning to pull to within 16-7 after five.
• Two runs scored on a single by Moises Aristy Jr. in the bottom of the sixth as the Cardinals lead was back up to 11.
• The Seahawks pulled to within nine in the seventh with a two-run single by Hector Laguer.
• Bases were loaded in the bottom of the seventh and Aronne Dutton hit a single down the left field line to score Andrew Caccamisi as the Cardinals' lead went back up to 10 and they went on to win their 18^th game of the season via the Run-Ahead Rule.

STANDOUT STATS

• Travis Weaver started the game for the Cardinals, pitching a no-hitter through four innings, striking out five and got his third win of the season.
• Jalen Bowen pitched two innings in relief, giving up two runs and striking out one.
• Maldonado hit his fourth home run of the season, while Aristy Jr. hit his third and Aguilar Yon hitting his second of the season.
• Aristy Jr. got on base five times on Thursday afternoon, to improve his on-base percentage to .512, which is seventh in the conference.

UP NEXT

The Cardinals host a doubleheader against Montgomery College on Saturday afternoon, both schools are in the Top Four of the NJCAA DII Region XX standings with just two weeks left in the regular season.