{"id":4033,"date":"2009-04-30T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/full-story-lbcc-baseball-clinches-conference-title\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T06:09:00","slug":"full-story-lbcc-baseball-clinches-conference-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/full-story-lbcc-baseball-clinches-conference-title","title":{"rendered":"Full Story: LBCC Baseball Clinches Conference Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo4120094.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p>         <!--StartFragment-->        <!--StartFragment-->       <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Long Beach City College baseball team rallied late and  held on for a big 4-3 South Coast Conference win at rival Cerritos College on  Tuesday to wrap up at least a share of the SCC championship and earn an  automatic bid into the postseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Vikings close the conference schedule with a 17-7 record  and are 26-16 overall with one non-conference game on Thursday left to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For head coach Casey Crook, it is his second conference  title overall and first since the Vikings&rsquo; state championship 2006 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Long Beach can take the SCC championship outright as El  Camino (15-7 SCC) still must play a pair of games on Thursday and Friday  against L.A. Harbor College. A loss in either of those contests by El Camino  would give the Vikings sole possession of the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Regardless, Long Beach will earn the SCC&rsquo;s automatic spot  into the Southern California regional playoffs because of the head-to-head  tiebreaker against El Camino. The Vikings will host a first-round three-game  series against an opponent to be determined on May 8-9 at Joe Hicks Memorial  Field. Playoff pairings will be announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On Tuesday, LBCC trailed 2-0 after six innings before  rallying for the win. Designated hitter Ivan Niebla tied up the game with a  two-run triple and then came in to score on a throwing error to give the  Vikings a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Left fielder Matt Homstad added a big insurance run in the  eighth when he singled, stole second, went to third on a sacrifice bunt, and  came in to score on shortstop Hector Iribe&rsquo;s ground out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">LBCC starter Chris Mieszala allowed a ninth-inning solo  homerun to the Falcons&rsquo; Josh Bryan before settling down to get the complete-game  win. Mieszala allowed three runs and seven hits and struck out 10 to improve to  4-2 overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Vikings close out the regular-season schedule on  Thursday (Apr 30) at 2:30 p.m. with a non-conference game against Mt. San  Jacinto College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Report by LBCC&#8217;s Chris Ruiz<\/span><\/p>\n<p>       <!--EndFragment-->         <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: LucidaGrande;\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/lbccBB3.jpg\"   \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: LucidaGrande; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/lbccBB2.jpg\"   \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>             <!--EndFragment-->                                     <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> body { \tbackground: #FFF; } <\/style><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vikings beat Cerritos to clinch the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}