CBC baseball ousted from NWAC after losses to Walla Walla, Lane

Columbia Basin College’s stay at the NWAC baseball championships came to an end Saturday with a 3-2 loss to Lane at Story Field in Longview.

CBC, the NWAC East Region champs, was coming off a 7-1 loss to East rival Walla Walla on Friday.

Against Lane, the Hawks carried a one-run lead into the eighth inning. But a pair of walks and a single loaded the bases with one out against CBC reliever Austin Bergdahl.

Bergdahl struck out the next batter swinging and looked like he might get away clean. But Bryce Mulcahy followed with a single to score a pair of runs and swing the lead to Lane.

Titans reliever Jalen Fuhriman came on and set down six of the seven he faced for the two-inning save.

After falling behind 1-0 in the second inning, CBC tied it up in the sixth on Michael Wyatt’s two-out triple. The Hawks took the lead in the seventh, again with two out, when Zeb Chamberlain singled in McKlane Elgin. However, CBC left the bases loaded in the inning.

Hawks starter Hunter Mulderig gave up just six hits one unearned runs in five-plus innings. Chamberlain had a pair of singles, but CBC managed just five hits all told.

Friday

Kennewick grad Larry Dewitt tripled and drove in three runs for Walla Walla, and pitcher Clark Streby avoided any real danger despite giving up eight hits in the second-round game.

CBC led 1-0 on the strength of back-to-back two-out singles by Tanner Roundy and Wyatt and an error that plated Roundy for the game’s first run in the third. But Walla Walla went to work in the fifth and finally got to Hawks starter Anthony Alvarado.

A trio of former Lions — Quentin Lafontain, Dewitt and Josh Kutzke — all singled to load the bases with two out. A walk brought home one run, and Brandon Wagstaff (not Kennewick) singled in Dewitt and Kutzke for a 3-1 lead.

Three errors and Dewitt’s two-run triple added four runs in the eighth to salt the game away.

For CBC’s part, though they had nine hits, they were never able to piece it all together. Griffey Halle was the team’s only multi-hit guy (2x4, 2B, RBI).

This story was originally published May 26, 2017 at 10:00 PM with the headline "CBC baseball ousted from NWAC after losses to Walla Walla, Lane."