Matt MacDonald and Damian Lorta each have two RBIs and two runs as Baseball takes opener vs. Yavapai College

The Pima Community College baseball team (5-0) opened a three-game series against Yavapai College (0-1) on Friday at the West Campus Aztec Baseball Field.

• The No. 21 ranked Aztecs took control with six runs in the first two innings and won 12-2 in seven innings.
• Freshman Juan Hernandez (Tucson Magnet HS) drove in sophomore Jackson Glueck and freshman Damian Lorta (Desert view HS) with his two-run RBI single to left field. Glueck and Lorta reached base with two outs.
• The Aztecs scored four runs in the 2^nd inning. They loaded the bases with no outs and sophomore Matt MacDonald came through on a two-run RBI double to left field bringing in sophomores Max Leyva (Tucson Magnet HS) and Ramon Martinez. Glueck hit a sacrifice-fly RBI to score sophomore Leon Cereceres and Lorta capped off the inning with his RBI single to plate MacDonald. Pima led 6-0.
• Glueck helped Pima's cause with an RBI single in the 6^th and walked it off with an RBI double in the 7^th inning as he finished 3 for 4 with three RBIs and a run scored. Lorta had another RBI single in the 6^th inning as he went a perfect 3 for 3 with two RBIs and two runs scored. MacDonald scored the final run in the game in the 7^th inning as he was 2 for 4 with two RBIs and two runs. Hernandez closed it out going 1 for 4 with two RBIs and Cereceres went 1 for 2 with an RBI and two runs.
• Freshman Hayden Green (Sabino HS) got the win as he pitched three innings, giving up two hits with five strikeouts and one walk on 51 pitches.

YC     0 0 0 0 0 1 1    2     9    0
PCC   2 4 0 0 1 2 3   12   12   0

W – Green (1-0). 2B: Guillen, Glueck, MacDonald. SB: Guillen, Lorta, Leyva.

The Aztecs and the Roughriders will close out the series with a doubleheader on Saturday at Aztec Field. The first game will start at 11:00 a.m.