By Staff reports
LAKEPORT ? Clear Lake High School played “a really good defensive game,” Coach Paul Larrea said Friday.
Clear Lake defeated Middletown at home 7-5.
“We started out ahead and then went behind and then we came back. We showed a lot of character,” Larrea said. “We hung in there. The kids did a really nice job.”
Starting pitcher, pitching five innings, was Ryan Richardson, giving up three hits, five runs, three earned, five walks and struck out four.
Bryan Edwards finished off the game, giving up no runs, no hits and struck out two. Edwards is now 5-0 for the season.
Middletown Head Coach Mitch Tucked said “starting pitcher Dan Sallee did a great job. He went two for three at the plate with a double and Brett Humphrey had two big hits for us ? that gave us a lead at the time.”
Clear Lake High School will play a double-header John Swett High School from Crockett today at 11 a.m.
In other baseball action Friday:
??LOWER LAKE ?The 10-run rule ended the at-home game for Lower Lake versus Cloverdale, with a score of Cloverdale 13 and Lower Lake 2.
The teams started on equal footing with one run each in the first inning.
Lower Lake”s Jesus Fonseca pitched the first three innings and George Novak finished out the game. “In the fourth inning, we melted down, it got away from us,” Lower Lake Coach Joe Mattos said. “It just wasn”t our night.”
Lower Lake had six hits, two runs and five errors, while Cloverdale had 16 hits 13 runs and no errors.
Novak and Joe Riggs claimed the two runs for Lower Lake and Kyle Buckingham had one RBI.
