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Griffins in showdown race with Palomar

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East County Sports.com

FLETCHER HILLS — The season is just a mere two weeks old, but the race for the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference baseball pennant is a two horse race.

Last week, both Grossmont College and Palomar College posted three-gae sweeps, moving to pergect marks of 5-0. All of the remaining conference schools sit below tghe .500 plateay.

The Griffins and Comets meet for the first of five meetings on Mar. 17 at Grossmont’s Noel Mickelson Field, starting at 2 p.m.

Grossmont 11-22, Imperial Valley 0-4
An interesting n ote: no ballclub which lost even a single game to Imperial Valley in a any season has even captured the PCAC flag that season. Thius dates back to the founding of thre conference in the early 1980s.

On Tuesday (Mar. 3), the G-House took care of bysuness behind the arm of starting pitcher Rowan Haynes.

The left-handed sophomore out of Granite Hills fired a complete-game 3-hitter, wiyh seven strikeouts.

Haynes retired the first eight Arabs batters, but lost the bid for a oerfect game on a close -2 pitch for a walk against the No. 9 batter for IVC. The three hits included a ground single, a bloop single over the head of the second baseman, and one clean basehit to the outfield in a dominating performance. BOXSCORE

On Thursday (Mar. 5) in the Imperial Valley, the Griffins registered their second-highest offensive output in runs and hits since winning at Compton, 31-6, on Jan. 27

Lead-off batter Drew Frost slugged a 2-run homer. The left fielder also doubled, along with Justin Heffler, Logan Aguilar, Noah Libed, Anthony Thomas and Gavin Brown among the ballclub’s 16 hits. BOXSCORE


Grossmont 12, San Diego Mesa 8

At San Clementge-Dsndback Field on Friday (Mar. 6), the Griffins had a short turn-around following the long roadtripo, yet still posteddouble figures in runs and hits to trounce the Olympians.

San Diego Mesa did hold a 5-3 advantage through gurninningsd, then Grossmont shoke off the ir grogginess with runs in the next four frames to pull away.

The first seven Grossmont batters drove inruns, incuding four by first baseman Noah Libed, plus three more from catcher Owen Rodgers. BSCORE

– Nick Pellegrino

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