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From reports by LBCC’s Chris Ruiz<\/span><\/p>\n The Long Beach City College baseball team suffered a tough 4-3 South Coast Conference loss to visiting Mt. San Antonio College on Saturday at Joe Hicks Memorial Field.<\/p>\n \n The loss dropped Long Beach to 19-12 overall and 12-5 in the SCC. The Vikings could be out of first place in the SCC standings after today should second-place El Camino College (10-4 entering today) defeat Cerritos College this afternoon.<\/p>\n Long Beach rallied for two runs with two outs in the bottom of the ninth thanks to a two-run single by second baseman Trevor Costin, but couldn’t complete the comeback. Catcher Jonathan Keener flew out with runners on first and third base to end the ball game.<\/p>\n Freshman Blake Golding (5-2) picked up the loss despite a quality outing. He allowed eight hits and four runs (three earned) in 7 2\/3 innings. Golding got off to a rocky start though, allowing three runs in the top of the first inning.<\/p>\n Costin (1 for 4) drove in all three runs for LBCC. He added a sacrifice fly that scored left fielder Matt Homstad in the third inning. Shortstop Hector Iribe went 4 for 5 to lead the Vikings at the plate.<\/p>\n Shane Youngdale (3-2) earned the win for Mt. SAC (19-12, 9-6 SCC). He nearly went the distance and allowed three runs and 11 hits in 8 2\/3 innings while striking out six. Richard Martin induced Keener’s fly ball to end the game and earn his first save.<\/p>\n Long Beach returns to action on Monday (Apr 6) at 2:30 p.m. when it resumes play against Riverside Community College at home. The two squads will continue their game from February 13 that was halted because of rain. Riverside leads 4-0 heading into the bottom of the fourth inning.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Vikings rallied but fell short yesterday against Mt. SAC.<\/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-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","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=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}