2017 Rio Hondo College Baseball News
After recently wrapping up the 2017 season, seven Rio Hondo College Roadrunners earned postseason honors as they were named All-South Coast Conference North Division.
After snapping No. 1 state-ranked El Camino College's 25-game winning streak on Tuesday, the Rio Hondo College Roadrunners decided to help the Warriors (33-4) begin a new streak by beating them for a second consecutive game. Rio Hondo scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth to walk off with a 6-5 victory on Thursday in Whittier.
Facing the No. 1-ranked team in the state, the Rio Hondo College Roadrunners snapped the El Camino College Warriors' 25-game winning streak thanks to a narrow 3-2 win on Tuesday in Torrance to open a two-game South Coast Conference interdivision series.
For seven and a half innings, Rio Hondo College appeared to be on its way to an easy non-conference win at Oxnard College on Thursday. But then, the bottom of the eighth inning happened. With the Roadrunners leading the Condors 5-1, Oxnard rallied for five runs to send Rio Hondo home with a 6-5 loss.
Rio Hondo College freshman Steve Genera launched a three-run, pinch-hit home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to help lead the Roadrunners past the visiting Pasadena City College Lancers by a final score of 12-11 in Tuesday's conference series opener in Whittier.
On Saturday, the Rio Hondo College Roadrunners salvaged the final contest of a three-game South Coast Conference series by beating the East Los Angeles College Huskies by a final score of 4-2 in Monterey Park.
Seven different Rio Hondo College pitchers combined to allow 21 hits in an offensive clinic put on by El Camino College Compton Center on Thursday as the Roadrunners fell to the Tartars by a final score of 9-6 in Whittier.
After winning its South Coast Conference opener last week, the Rio Hondo College Roadrunners have struggled, losing their last three games including two vs. Los Angeles Harbor College. On Thursday, Rio Hondo suffered an 8-1 defeat coming off the heels of a 9-4 loss on Tuesday.
Rio Hondo College couldn't hold a narrow one-run, seventh-inning lead at lost 2-1 at Cerritos College on Saturday to wrap up a two-game South Coast Conference series.
Sophomore centerfielder Nick Ybarra went 2 for 4 with 3 RBI to help lead Rio Hondo College to a 4-1 victory over the Cerritos College Falcons in both teams' South Coast Conference opener on Thursday in Whittier.
The visiting Oxnard College Condors rallied for five runs in the top of the ninth inning to erase an 8-7 Rio Hondo College advantage as the Roadrunners dropped a 12-8 non-conference game in Whittier on Friday afternoon.
Nick Ybarra went 2 for 4 with a double and 3 RBI while starting pitcher Jake Gaudet tossed five scoreless innings to help lead Rio Hondo College to a 10-1 non-conference win at San Bernardino Valley College on Monday.
Rio Hondo College sophomore R.J. Romo lined a bases-clearing single as part of a five-run seventh-inning to help lead the Roadrunners to an 8-1 non-conference win over visiting Mt. San Jacinto College on Friday in Whittier.
Rio Hondo College banged out 15 hits and took advantage of three crucial Citrus College errors to pull out a 6-5, walk-off win in 11 innings over the visiting Owls on Saturday in Whittier.
A day following their season-opening victory, Rio Hondo College couldn't keep the momentum going as the Roadrunners took to the road and lost 4-2 at Antelope Valley College on Saturday. The non-conference loss evened Rio Hondo's record at 1-1.