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Slow Start Dooms ASA Baseball in Region XX Tournament May 14, 2011  KEYSER, West Virginia - The ASA Baseball team came into Saturday’s elimination bracket contest against Anne Arundel Community College hoping to reach down deep for some of the magic they started at the tail end of their 13-12 defeat against second-seeded Potomac State. Unfortunately, the Avengers came up empty. Ideal weather conditions didn’t translate into stellar play as third-seeded ASA fell to the fourth-seeded Pioneers 10-7 in the third game of the Region XX Division I Championship Tournament, ending their tournament run and their season at 29-13. The contest began like ASA’s previous one, except this time the visiting team that scored in the top of the first was Anne Arundel, driving in six runs off of Sophomore P Isaac Gil (New York, NY/Fausto Jimenez). Gil would settle in a little after the first, holding the AACC scoreless for the next four innings. ASA would cut the Pioneer lead in half during the fourth to 6-3 with RBI singles from Freshman C/DH Joneiris Rosario (San Francisco de Macoris, DR/Monsenor Francisco Panal) and Freshman 3B Johnathan Tineo (Brooklyn, NY/Murry Bergtraum), who drove in two runs. Both teams went scoreless in the fifth, but in the six, AACC struck again, scoring three more runs off of Gil (5 2/3 IP, 3 K, 2 BB) before being replaced by Freshman P Fernando Jimenez (Santo Domingo, DR/Colegio Catolico Santiago Apostol). Jimenez (1/3 IP, BB) wouldn’t fair much better, throwing two wild pitches and allowing another run to score, extending AACC’s lead to 10-3. ASA employed three pitchers for an inning each during the final three innings of the game. Freshman P/OF Cesar Estevez (Dominican Republic/Cuei-Utesa), Freshman P Nolan Herrera (Bronx, NY/James Monroe), and Sophomore P Yendris Perez (New York, NY/Greenland Iberoamerican School) faced ten batters, retiring the side twice and help AACC scoreless. Anne Arundel did not score in seven of nine innings. ASA wouldn’t score after the German HR and Barreras would go through the Catamounts 1-2-3 to end the seventh. After ASA failed to score in the top of the eighth, a second rain delay – this one a little over an hour – halted the game and seemingly the Avengers’ momentum. After the second delay, PSC would threaten to close the game out, loading the bases once again. Barreras (3 1/3 IP, BB) weathered the storm and got out of the inning unscathed, setting up ASA’s shot in the top of the ninth to extend the game. The Avengers’ bats were just as dormant throughout the game, having their first three batters retired in five of nine innings. ASA looked to mount a comeback in the bottom of the ninth. The first two batters reached base, and Sophomore 3B Hochiminh Astacio (San Pedro de Macoris, DR/Cenapec) - pinch hitting for Sophomore SS/2B Deivid Gomez (Santo Domingo, DR/ENI) – hit an RBI single to cut the deficit to 10-4. Freshman SS Yariel Medina (Dominican Republic/INPHA) would drive in two runs with a one-out double and Freshman C/1B Jose Guaba (Dominican Republic/Cuei-Utesa). added another with a sacrifice fly to make the score 10-7. The run would abruptly end, with Freshman CF Darwin Duran (Dominican Republic/Cenapec) popping out to end the game. PLAYERS OF THE GAME *Kept Anne Arundel scoreless late in game, allowing for rally attempt |
