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April 26, 2008

Baseball:

Vikings close home schedule with 3-1 extra-inning loss to L.A. Harbor

Long Beach City College freshman Teddy Mitrosilis was impressive in his first start of the season, allowing just one hit and a first-inning run, but the Vikings couldn’t make him a winner as they fell 3-1 in 10 innings to Los Angeles Harbor College on a hot Saturday afternoon at Joe Hicks Memorial Field.

The South Coast Conference loss closed the Vikings’ regular-season home schedule and dropped their record to 25-17 overall and 12-11 in conference play.

Mitrosilis made his lone mistake in the top of the first inning. He allowed a lead-off triple to Harbor’s Matt Hibbert and then surrendered a run-scoring groundout from left fielder Alex Salgado to give the Seahawks a 1-0 lead.

But from then on, Mitrosilis was nearly perfect over the next six innings. He allowed just three batters to reach base and erased two of them with inning-ending doubles plays.

Mitrosilis allowed just the one hit and run in 7 1/3 innings pitched. He struck out two and walked one.

Harbor starting pitcher Carlos Pineda (7 1/3 inn., 4 hits, 1 run) was just as impressive as Mitrosilis. But the Vikings finally touched him for a run to tie up the game in the eighth.

Sophomore Sean Beckley got the rally started with a one-out single. Freshman Brian Loard followed that with a single off reliever Ben Rowen and pinch runner Hector Iribe came in to score on a RBI single by freshman Michael Schultz.

Harbor went on to score a pair of runs in the top of the 10th inning off losing pitcher Alex Van Horn (0-5)and despite getting two runners on base in the bottom of the 10th, LBCC could not get the runs in.

Rowen earned the win for Harbor (15-24, 10-11 SCC). He was charged with no runs and four hits in 2 2/3 innings.

Sophomore Derek Junghanel went 2 for 4 with a double to lead the Vikings at the plate.

Long Beach closes its SCC schedule on Tuesday (Apr. 29) with a 2:30 p.m. contest at Harbor.