PHOENIX, Ariz. – The Western Nebraska Community College baseball team was victims to another big inning in falling to Mesa Community College on their Spring Break trip in Arizona.
WNCC and Mesa were battling through four innings until Mesa scored six runs in the fourth inning to take an 8-1 lead and went on to win 12-1.
WNCC scored first with a run in the third when Arturo Montiel singled. With two outs, Shintaro Inoue singled and then Ashton Ross had a run-scoring single to score Dylan Harris.
Mesa came right back with single runs in the third and fourth innings to go up 2-1 before plating six runs in the fifth on five hits.
WNCC managed eight hits in the contest, all singles. Ross and Levesque led the way with two hits each.
Zane Hendrickx took the loss in going four innings while allowing just three hits and two runs. Julian Garza went two innings in fiving up five hits and six runs, while Cameron Spence went 1.2 innings in giving up three hits and four runs.
WNCC will wrap up the Spring Break trip Friday when they face Paradise Valley Community College.
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LP – Zane Hendricks.
