Zach Edgington tossed SBCC’s first complete game of the season on Friday afternoon — a six-hitter with 13 strikeouts — and the Vaqueros rallied with two runs in the eighth to beat L.A. Mission 5-4 at Pershing Park.
Santa Barbara (16-9) went 3-0 in the Channel Coast Baseball Tournament and improved to 10-3 at home. The Vaqueros, who’ve captured four straight and nine of their last 10, won for the first time this season when scoring less than seven runs.
Zach Edgington fanned 13 L.A. Mission batters on Friday in a complete-game win for the Vaqueros. (Vince Agapito Photo)
Danny Cavaletto had three hits and drove in the tying run with a one-out single in the eighth. Steven Keller beat out an infield single and Tommy White brought home Cavaletto with the go-ahead run on an RBI single to right.
“I just had a feeling they were going to stick with their approach of throwing me off-speed on the first pitch,” said White, who came back from Tommy John elbow surgery in the spring of 2008. “I was 1-4 in the game and hadn’t been seeing the ball as well as I’d like to. There were runners on first and third and I didn’t want to hit on the ground for a double play. I looped it to right and got the run home.”
Zach Pecyna went 4-for-4 and drove in SBCC’s second run to tie the game at 2-2 in the fourth.
It was the third straight outstanding start from a Vaquero pitcher, coming on the heels of strong efforts by Ryan Gardner and Joe McGrew.
Edgington, a left-hander who’s signed with UCSB, retired 13 straight from the first to the fifth. The string was snapped by Nico Garcia’s solo homer that gave Mission a 3-2 lead.
“I had a really good curveball for the first time all year and my changeup was going really good,” said Edgington, a sophomore from San Mateo who allowed just two earned runs with one walk. “The offense picked me up. They told me they were going to get the lead in the eighth and they did it.”
Mission took a 4-3 lead in the sixth on an RBI single by A.J. Dupre.
“I’m shocked to look at the box score and see that we had 15 hits because it seemed like we were consistently spinning our wheels,” said coach Teddy Warrecker, whose team struck out 11 times and left 12 runners on base. “I’ve been waiting for that type of performance from Edgington. He has dominating stuff for this level.
“As we’re getting further into the year, it seems like our starters are getting stronger and stronger, which bodes very well for us.”
The Eagles (14-11) had runners at first and second with two outs in the ninth. Edgington induced a chopper to third and Chris Lauritzen knocked it down on the short-hop, then gunned to first for the final out. “Conner Rehage made a couple of good plays on low throws to first,” noted Warrecker. “A trip to the bench as the DH has re-ignited his will to defend.”
The Vaqueros return to WSC North play on Thursday with a 2:30 p.m. home game against Cuesta.
SBCC 5, L.A. MISSION 4
L.A. Mission …….. 200 011 000 — 4 6 1
SBCC ……………… 001 110 02x — 5 15 2
Hamilton, Boersma (6), Faust (8) and S. Parma, Montgomery (6); Edgington and Keller. W–Edgington 4-2. L–Faust 1-1.
2B–LAM: Almendarez. SB: Keller, Lauritzen. HR–LAM: Garcia, 5th inn., none on.
Records–LAM 14-11. SBCC 16-9.
