Baseball team loses pair of conference games Saturday

The Eastern Florida State College lost a pair of Citrus Conference games at Bruce Bochy Field on Saturday.

The Titans lost to Indian River State College 9-4 and 10-4 to fall to 5-7 in the conference. Indian River State College improved to 8-4 with the wins on Saturday.

In Game 1, Indian River State College scored a run in the fourth and then three runs in the fifth and another in the sixth inning to take a 5-0 lead.

Eastern Florida State College got on the board in the bottom of the sixth inning as Jeremy Rivera singled, stole second and scored on Hector Mangual's single. Mangual would score on an Adrian Dominguez double to cut the Indian River lead to 5-2. But Indian River State College would score four runs in the top of the seventh inning.

Carlos Cordero and Ryan Cerrone each had RBI singles in the bottom of the seventh inning but could not get any closer.

Laheim Bell had two hits in the game for the Titans.

In the second game, the Titans took the lead in the bottom of the third inning as Cordero singled, scoring Wayne Wilkerson.

The Pioneers would score four times in the top of the fourth inning to take a 4-1 lead but the Titans would score twice on a Cordero single to make it 4-3. Indian River State College scored four in the ninth to put the game away.

Cordero had three hits in the game while Wilkerson had two and scored twice.

Eastern Florida State College will host Seminole State College Tuesday in a non-conference game at 2 p.m. before hosting Santa Fe College in the first game of a three-game conference series on Thursday at 2 p.m.