The baseball community was stunned by the death of SBCC pitching coach Tim Haubursin. Haubursin, 58, died on Saturday after a short battle with melanoma.
Two was the magic number on Saturday as SBCC scored two runs in four different innings thanks to a pair of two-run homers by Kyle Froemke and Jarred Greene in an 8-3 baseball win over Ventura at Pershing Park.
SBCC scored five runs in the third inning on Tuesday and Mason Metcalfe provided strong relief for the last six innings of a 6-3 baseball win over Ventura at Pershing Park.
Alonzo Rubalcaba didn't start Saturday's non-conference baseball game but he certainly had the finishing touch. SBCC erased a 4-1 deficit by scoring eight runs in its last four at-bats to beat Chaffey 9-6.
SBCC got two runners on base in five separate innings on Friday, including the eighth and ninth, but couldn't find any timely hits in a 1-0 baseball loss to Chaffey at Pershing Park.
Kyle Froemke went 2-4 on Tuesday and broke the non-conference game open by ripping a grand slam in the seventh to propel SBCC to a 14-7 win at Fullerton.
SBCC loaded the bases in the ninth on Saturday afternoon and Trevor Davis delivered a sacrifice fly to right to score Jacob Bravo and propel the Vaqueros to a 5-4 WSC North win at Oxnard.
Jacob Bravo and Jarred Greene got things going with solo homers in the first inning on Saturday and Matthew Strother tossed seven solid relief innings as SBCC blanked Cerro Coso 8-0 for its second straight shutout.
Blake Corsentino tossed a no-hitter for 5.1 innings on Thursday and Ryan Guardino went 4-4 with two RBIs as SBCC posted its first baseball shutout with an 11-0 victory at East Los Angeles.
Chase Rowe delivered a two-out, two-run triple in the fifth inning on Sunday to snap a 5-5 tie and send SBCC to a 9-5 comeback win over San Diego City.
SBCC spotted Saddleback a 5-0 lead in Game 1 of a doubleheader on Saturday in Mission Viejo, then erupted for nine runs in the last three innings to pull out a 13-10 victory. The nightcap was tight throughout until the Vaqueros tied it 7-7 on an RBI single by Zach Jensen in the 9th, only to see the Gauchos win it on a two-out, walk-off RBI single by Alex Zerfass.
Kyle Froemke blasted a two-run homer in the first and Zach Orn delivered a two-out, two-run single in the fourth on Saturday afternoon to spark SBCC to a 4-3 win over West L.A. in the baseball home opener at Pershing Park.
SBCC lost most of its pitching from last year's WSC North championship baseball squad with its top four pitchers all playing for NCAA Div. 1 teams this year -- Ian Churchill (last year's State Pitcher of the Year, Arizona); Conner Roberts (UCSB); Jack Aldrich (Tulane) and Dylan Porter (Washington State).