CSM gets pitching to go with hitting

0 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Feb 26, 2005 | by Merv Harris, CORRESPONDENT

SAN MATEO -- All three of San Mateo County's community college baseball teams were successful offensively Friday, but only College of San Mateo paired prolific hitting with effective pitching.

CSM collected 10 hits off Shasta (Redding) pitching for an 8-1 non-conference victory, the Bulldogs' seventh in nine games.

Sophomores Matt Canepa and Robbie McDonald homered, and freshman Mike Aicardi tripled twice to back 6 innings of no-hit pitching by sophomore Ben Langridge (3-0).

Eric Mull, a sophomore transfer from San Jose City College who bats second as designated hitter, boomed his Northern California- leading fifth home run, and both Andy Worthington and Daniel Hernandez doubled for Skyline (7-2), but the Trojans fell to Los Medanos (Pittsburg), 5-3.

It was the second day of the San Bruno school's Golden Gate Classic.

Two bugaboos of the past two seasons for Caada College — pitchers' wildness (nine walks) and faulty defense (four errors) — opened the way for College of Marin to post 25 hits in a 24- 11 tournament win at Redwood City.

Caada managed 15 hits in defeat, including a single and double by Brandon Woolard that gave the freshman first baseman seven hits in his past nine at-bats over three games.

Woolard, Jack Chapman and Ryan Murray drove in two runs apiece while Chris Baciagalupi was 5-for-7 with a triple, homer and six RBIs for the winners.

Play in the Skyline event was to continue today and Sunday, weather permitting, with the Trojans facing Marin at 2 p.m. and Caada playing host to College of the Redwoods (Eureka) at 10:30 a.m. today. San Mateo was to play a home-field doubleheader, a game against American River (Sacramento) at 10:30 this morning and a rematch with Shasta at 2 p.m.

High school

Andrew Ticzon's three-run home run in the second inning highlighted Burlingame's offense in a 4-2 non-league win over visiting Newark on Friday. Mike Butterfield (single) and Eric Fregosi (walk) were on board ahead of Ticzon's blast.

Fregosi went six innings, allowing two runs in his first start of the season. The Panthers improved to 2-0.