Cayuga Community College Baseball saw its postseason cut short Saturday in a pair of road losses at Finger Lakes Community College.
Opening the Region III postseason as the East Division’s third seed, Cayuga lost a back-and-forth 9-8 opening game to the Lakers, then fell 12-7 in the second contest. The Spartans end the season with a record of 28-19.
The teams traded the lead seven times in the opener, with neither leading by more than two runs at any point. Cayuga took a 3-2 lead in the second on an RBI double by Alejandro Diaz and a run-scoring single by Owen Browne, then took a 5-4 lead in the fourth on an RBI single by Kevin Dolan. The Spartans again came back to tie the game in the fifth inning on Jacob Laird’s RBI double, then took an 8-6 in the sixth on Mike DeRosa’s two-run single.
The Lakers tied the game again in the bottom half of the sixth inning, though, then took the lead for good on a bases-loaded single in the eighth.
DeRosa, Laird, Browne and Jeremy Recio had two hits, with Recio and Browne scoring twice and DeRosa and Laird finishing with two RBI. Isaac Allison also scored twice.
In the second game, the Spartans took an early three-run lead on a sacrifice fly by Diaz and RBI hits by Browne and Dolan. The Lakers cut the lead to one in the following inning, but Recio launched a solo homer in the third inning to put the Spartans’ advantage back to two. The Lakers scored six runs over the next three innings to take an 8-4 lead before Cayuga cut the deficit to two in the seventh on a bases-loaded walk by Eathen Yoon and an RBI fielder’s choice by Diaz.
Finger Lakes broke the game open in the bottom of the eighth with four runs, though, to take a 12-6 lead. Cayuga put runners on-base in the top of the ninth and scored once on a fielder’s choice by Browne before the Lakers recorded the final out.
Four Spartans — Recio, Laird, Yoon and Luca D’Emilio — had two hits in the second game. Diaz had two RBI, and Jakson Ross scored twice.
The Lakers advance to the Region III Final Four, scheduled to start Thursday, May 15, at Falcon Park in Auburn.
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