CCC Baseball Splits DH With Jefferson

Cayuga Community College Baseball picked up another win over Jefferson Community College on Sunday before losing the second game in extra innings.

The Spartans walked away with a 10-2 win in the opener after scoring seven runs in the final two innings, but saw their comeback in the second game spoiled when they fell 7-6 in nine innings. Cayuga’s record is now 28-14 on the season and 17-9 in the East Division.

The series also marked the end of Cayuga’s Mid-State Athletic Conference schedule, with the Spartans finishing 14-4 in the conference.

Cayuga took the lead right away in the opener, plating three runs in the first on RBI force-outs by Mike DeRosa and Luca D’Emilio and a run-scoring double by Jeremy Recio. The score stayed 3-0 until the sixth, when Cayuga added four more, including two on a single by Jacob Laird. They added three more runs in the final inning, with Alejandro Diaz singling home one run and Laird drawing a bases-loaded walk.

Kyle Peryer fired a complete game one-hitter, striking out eight for his team-high seventh win of the season. Jakson Ross and Recio had two hits, Laird had three RBI and Emilio Turco had two, and DeRosa and Recio both scored twice.

The Spartans trailed 6-2 in the second game before scoring in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings to tie the game. They scored on force-outs in the fourth and fifth, then scored twice on a Cannoneers’ throwing error in the sixth to tie the game. Cayuga put runners in scoring position in the seventh and eighth innings but was unable to score before the Cannoneers scored in the bottom of the ninth.

Laird had three hits in the second game, and Kevin Dolan drew three walks and scored twice. Andrew Seward allowed only two hits and one earned run in four relief innings.

Cayuga is on the road Tuesday, April 29, at Herkimer College, then wraps up the regular season with a weekend home-and-away series against Columbia-Greene Community College.