Aztecs Baseball scores nine runs in the 7th inning to run rule Chandler-Gilbert CC

The Pima Community College baseball team (24-24, 16-19 in ACCAC) picked up a bounce back win on Wednesday as it traveled to Chandler-Gilbert Community College (26-25, 17-18) for an ACCAC conference game.

• The Aztecs broke the game open with nine runs in the 7^th inning to beat the Coyotes 16-6 in seven innings.
• Sophomore Mike Jones (Canyon del Oro HS) hit a shot to center field that scored sophomores Owen Wade (Pinnacle HS) and Matt MacDonald to make it 14-6. Jones scored on an error after a flyball was dropped in left field. Sophomore Ramon Martinez capped off the inning with a run after a passed ball.
  Freshman Adriel Figueroa-Brito, sophomore Jackson Glueck, Wade and MacDonald all had RBI singles in the inning. Sophomore Leon Cereceres had a sacrifice-fly RBI to bring in the first run.
• The Aztecs got on the board with three runs in the 1^st inning. Cereceres scored on a fielder's choice. Freshman Damian Lorta (Desert View HS) knocked a two-run RBI double to left field to bring in Figueroa-Brito and freshman Cooper Kruk (Catalina Foothills HS).
• Figueroa-Brito had a sacrifice-fly RBI in the 2^nd inning to score Martinez.
• Kruk made it 5-0 after he hit a lead-off homer to center field in the 3^rd inning.
• MacDonald added to the offense as he hit an RBI single in the 5^th inning to make it 6-1 and had a bases loaded walk in the 6^th inning to put it at 7-3.
• Kruk finished the game 2-for-4 with two RBIs and four runs scored while MacDonald was 3-for-4 with three RBIs and one run. Cereceres closed out the game going 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored. Martinez went 1-for-2 with three runs scored. Figueroa-Brito finished 1-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs and Lorta went 1-for-2 with two RBIs.
• Sophomore Quintin Hennesy (Horizon HS) picked up the win as he pitched five innings, giving up six runs (six earned) on seven hits with two strikeouts on 52 pitches.
• The Aztecs batted .424 for the game and generated eight walks.

PCC     3 1 1 0 1 1 9   16   14   2
CGCC  0 0 0 1 2 3 0    6    10   2

W – Hennesy (4-0). 2B: Lorta, MacDonald. HR: Kruk. SB: Figueroa-Brito.

The Aztecs are back on the road on Friday for an ACCAC conference game against GateWay Community College. It will be played at Gene Autry Park in Mesa at 3:00 p.m.