The sounds of the bell clock chiming the six o’clock hour rang across Raider Stadium, Tuesday evening hinting that a dramatic finish to the 2016 baseball season was in store as Moorpark College defeated Hancock College 7-5 in 14 innings. As the evening shadows spread across the infield, 18-year-old freshman right fielder Jack Rosenberg, hitless in his previous five at-bats,...

In a welcome recovery after stumbling in the first two games starting the second leg of Western State Conference competition, Moorpark College powered past local rivals Pierce College, 5-2, in the hot afternoon sun at Raiders Stadium, Tuesday, April 5. With the game tied 2-2 in the bottom of the seventh inning, Dalton Duarte’s three-run homer to left center drove...

Santa Barbara City College baseball chipped away with single runs in five separate innings to defeat Moorpark College, 5-3, to open the second half of the Western State Conference series in the afternoon sun, Thursday, March 31, at Raiders Stadium. In what has become a familiar refrain this season, Moorpark took a 3-2 lead in the third, but failed to...

In two games played over the Easter weekend, Moorpark College defeated Golden West College 9-8 in eleven innings on Good Friday, March 25, but lost the rematch 8-6 on Saturday, March 26 to split the nonconference series at Raiders Stadium. In Friday’s win, the Raiders tied the game 8-8 in the bottom of the ninth. Blake Chiaramonte’s leadoff single set...

With the luck of the Irish on its side, Moorpark College clubbed Hancock College into submission 11-7 in a combined 33-hitting barrage on St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday, Mar. 17 at Raiders Stadium. The Bulldogs won the hitting contest 17-16, but the Raiders rode away with the game, snaring runs in all but two innings.“Riley [Conlan] and Terrell [Tate] broke out...

Cheered on by a partisan visiting crowd, Oxnard College defeated Moorpark 6-4 in the second of a four game series in the Western State Conference North on a sunny, but cool March afternoon, at Raiders Stadium, Saturday. Raiders’ second baseman Garrett Kueber was hit in the face by a pitch in the second inning, and dropped to the ground. After...

Given the great expectations for Moorpark College baseball, close losses early in the season left the Raiders hovering just above the basement in the Western State Conference North standings. After the opening day 10-3 shellacking of Antelope Valley College on the road, the Raiders looked all set to run the gamut, but lost the next five games.“Our starters pitched well...

On a cold rainy afternoon, Moorpark College defeated Western State Conference leader Cuesta College, 3-2, with a crucial hit in the bottom of the ninth inning at Raiders Stadium on Saturday, March 5. The game was tied with runners at first and second, and two out, when Raider second baseman Garrett Kueber battled relief pitcher Anthony Baleto, fouling off pitch...

The Moorpark College defense squandered an early 3-0 lead in a comedy of errors against Ventura College and lost 8-4, on a partially sunny afternoon before a sparse crowd at Raiders Stadium on Thursday, March 3. After winning two games on the road, the confident Raiders struck first with three runs in the third inning. The Ventura College Pirates hit...

As the shadows slowly spread across the infield in the early evening at Raiders Stadium on Thursday, Pierce College survived a ninth-inning Moorpark threat, and adding insult to injury, went on to win the game 5-4 in 11th innings. Freshman Blake Chiaramonte’s bases-loaded hit tied the game 4-4 in the ninth, but the Raiders squandered a golden opportunity to buck...