Viking lose their third consecutive game to Cerritos

The Vikings baseball team had a rough start against Cerritos on Saturday, March 7th losing 7-4. 

After a few bunts and hit-by-pitches in the second and third inning, Cerritos led a 4-0 lead over the Vikings. 

Having the bases loaded so early in the game had the Vikings very pressured, starting pitcher Anthony Buenaseda commented on the main struggle.

 “I think it was a bunch of mental errors, obviously like on the bunts and  things like that. The most important thing I think we need to take away from today is communication.  Like I said, for the bunts, we need to do a better job at communicating who has it, who’s got bags and stuff like that,” said Buenaseda.

By the top of the fourth, Cerritos had bases loaded, after another error from the Vikings, Cerritos scored making the score 5-0. 

The Vikings used 6 pitchers throughout the game.

At the bottom of the seventh, the Vikings were able to score a run due to an error made by Cerritos shortstop Tyler Peshke that allowed catcher Enrique Lopez to score. 

Over the course of the eighth and ninth inning, the Vikings were able to make it a closer game by scoring 3 more runs but Cerritos had already scored 7 runs.

Head coach Philip Visico talked about the underlying mentality of the team when things start to get rough and stressful.

“When we make errors on defense and things start not to go our way, we don’t just spiral, it goes into our bats and they become really bad and brutal. It just takes us out, literally mentally and physically,” Visico said.  

“Proud of the bullpen for what they did but they gotta play like that at the beginning not towards the end,” Visico added. 

The Vikings lost the series 2-1 with Cerritos, and their current record is 13-18.

Their next game is scheduled for Tuesday at 2 p.m. against Victor Valley.