BULLDOGS Tied Atop Tough GG Baseball Race With 5 To Play

Article Source: Fred Baer

COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO SPORTS NEWS April 13, 2019

Contact: Fred Baer, baerf@smccd.edu

BULLDOGS TIED ATOP TOUGH GG BASEBALL RACE WITH 5 TO PLAY

College of San Mateo enters the final two weeks of play in the tough Coast Golden Gate Conference baseball race on a 5-game winning streak and tied for first place with Mission College, which had lost three in a row.

The Bulldogs started last week with their first no hitter in more than a quarter century as sophomore Brett Karalius led CSM past De Anza, 10-0, with a no-no in his first collegiate start.

Although there are also three games this week, the tight GG race could go down to the wire with a concluding series between the current top two teams: April 23 at Mission and April 25 at San Mateo.

San Mateo (22-11, 11-4 Golden Gate) took advantage of the 3-game skid by Mission against contenders Chabot and West Valley. Meanwhile the Bulldogs included those foes in their current skein. Mission responded with an 11-2 win over last place City College of San Francisco on Saturday, while CSM knocked Chabot out of third place, 8-4.

Saturday, at Chabot, Daniel Haberern doubled home the eventual winning run for a 5-0 lead in the fifth inning and later added a 2-run homer in the seventh. Three hits by the sophomore first baseman raised his season average to .471. He is slugging .765.

JJ Ota had opened the scoring in the fifth with a 2-RBI single. Alec Ackerman had RBIs on a sacrifice fly in the fifth and a double in the ninth (for the final run). Christain Ontai had a pair of doubles. Danny Carnazzo and Cole Gabrielson each had doubles among their two hits. CSM had eight doubles in the game and ranks second in the state with 86 on the year (one behind leader Sierra).

Pitcher Jamie Kruger (6-4) went eight innings for the win, striking out three. He survived a tough fifth inning when Jake Simons and Caleb Millikan both doubled in runs for the Gladiators, who narrowed the margin to 5-3 -- but could not get closer.

--CSM plays a home-and-home series with CCSF on Thursday and Saturday, the latter at San Mateo.

--Only three teams in the state currently have longer winning streaks than CSM’s five game mark. Two of those wins were shutouts – where Bulldogs pitchers lead the state with eight blankings on the season.

Winning streaks: Southwestern 10, Fresno 7, Delta 6, CSM and Skyline 5.

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