For the second straight year, the postseason for the Santa Rosa Junior College baseball team ended in the Northern California finals as the 11th-seeded Bear Cubs fell 6-5 to No. 2 Ohlone College in a winner-take-all matchup Sunday afternoon in Fremont.<\/p>\n
Ohlone (40-8), which advances to the state championship tournament for the first time since 2022, broke a 5-5 tie in the bottom of the eighth with a two-out RBI single. The go-ahead run scored from second after the runner stole the base just prior to the hit.<\/p>\n
SRJC (34-15) got the tying run to second in the top of the ninth inning with two outs, but a groundout left him stranded.<\/p>\n
The Bear Cubs reached the NorCal regional final by defeating College of Marin in the opening round and then topping Modesto in three games in the Super Regional round.<\/p>\n
SRJC dropped Friday\u2019s opener in the best-of-three NorCal series against Ohlone, 11-8, then bounced back Saturday with a 5-4 victory.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Santa Rosa fell behind 4-0 early as the Renegades scored four runs over the first two innings. SRJC rallied in the top of the fourth as Brett Neidlinger hit a solo home run and Cooper Wood hit a two-run shot later in the inning.<\/p>\n
Then, in the seventh, JT Summers drew a bases-loaded walk to tie the game 4-4 before Chase Sutherland had a sacrifice fly to give SRJC its first lead of the game at 5-4.<\/p>\n
Ohlone got the run right back in the bottom of the seventh inning on an RBI single.<\/p>\n
The three-day California Community College Athletic Association championship tournament, featuring the final four teams, begins Friday in Irvine.<\/p>\n
In addition to Ohlone, Feather River will represent Northern California in the tournament. Santa Ana and Palomar are the teams from Southern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second straight year, the postseason for the Santa Rosa Junior College baseball team ended in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2178,1703,2328,2304,4,2305,2303,7815,38738,79153,30059,185],"class_list":["post-701733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-california","tag-college-sports","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-north-bay","tag-northern-california","tag-santa-rosa","tag-sonoma-county","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116592535399340430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}