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The Long Beach City College baseball team pounded out 16 hits on its way to a 14-2 South Coast Conference win over visiting Los Angeles City College on Tuesday at Joe Hicks Memorial Field. <\/span>The win snapped the Vikings’ two-game losing streak and keeps them tied for first place in the SCC standings with a 6-3 record (13-10 overall).<\/p>\n \n Long Beach led 4-2 after four innings before breaking the game open in the bottom of the fifth, with four runs—shortstop Hector Iribe drove in two runs with a single, second baseman Trevor Costin plated a run with his one-out groundout, and catcher Jonathan Keener brought in Iribe with a RBI double. <\/span>The Vikings put up four more runs in the bottom of the seventh. The big blow was a two-run single by right fielder Randy Guite.<\/p>\n Costin went 2 for 3 with 3 RBI and two runs to lead LBCC at the plate. Iribe (3 for 5, 3 runs), Guite (2 for 5), and pitcher Jared Smith (1 for 4) all had two RBI for Long Beach.<\/p>\n Smith earned the win to improve to 3-0. He scattered seven hits over seven innings and allowed two runs while striking out five. Scott Watson (8th<\/sup>) and Brian Loard (9th<\/sup>) closed out the game with perfect innings and both struck out two of the three batters they faced.<\/p>\n Shortstop Mario Cabello led L.A. City (3-16, 1-8 SCC) at the plate, going 2 for 3 with 2 RBI. Walter Roberts picked up the loss after allowing four runs and nine hits in four innings.<\/p>\n Long Beach returns to action on Thursday (Mar 19) when it travels to L.A. City for a 2:30pm SCC game.<\/p>\n From LBCC reports<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Vikings snapped a two-game skid with a huge win over LACC.<\/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-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","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=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}