The Vikings responded as designated hitter AJ Quezada hit an RBI as the team got back from a 2 run deficit as they won at home 8-2 against Pierce Brahmas on Tuesday.
Vikings baseball stayed home as they faced the brahmas for the first game after sweeping the Pasadena Lancers on saturday placing them in the lead of the South Coast Conference.
The Vikings’ new starting pitcher Luis Guzman pitched strong through the five innings with a strikeout and thirteen outs in spite of the Brahmas two runs start in the 2nd and 3rd inning.
“We did a good job on hitting,” Guzman said. “Just trying to get outs and do everything I can do for this team and get strikeouts.”
While the Vikings hitting lineup responded as Ryan Geck homered to start the bottom of the 4th with third baseman James Provencio stealing home base to tie the game which started the vikings comeback.
“Just trying to get into scoring position as our guys hit pretty well,” Provencio said.
Quezada brought in with an RBI double that helped the Vikings take the lead with four more runs by Xander McLaurin and Olin Snakenborg in the bottom of the 8th.
“It’s great to be with the group of guys like they’re like my little brothers,” Quezada said. “It’s my dream to play ball and it’s great to be playing out there every day” .
During the game, revisions made by the umpires were called in favor of the vikings which head coach Casey Crook mentioned the calls were really close.
“That’s part of baseball for them to ask for the umpires to take a second look.” Crook said. “We were down early but we came back.”
As a result of the comeback, the Vikings are now on a five game winning streak as Crook believes everyone in and out of conference want to beat them.
“After this close game hopefully they’ll be more sharper and focused for Thursday” Crook said.
The Vikings continued their winning streak by taking down Pierce College again 11-8.