The Long Beach City College softball team split a pair of non-conference games against San Diego County opponents, picking up a 7-3 win over San Diego Mesa College while falling to Palomar College 4-0 to close out the 2012 regular-season schedule on Wednesday at home.<\/p>\n
With a 20-20 overall record, the Vikings will have to wait to see if they receive an at-large bid into the Southern California Regional Playoffs. The playoff pairings will be announced Saturday at the Southern California postseason coaches meeting at Mt. San Jacinto College.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the Vikings closed their afternoon with a much-needed win over Pacific Coast Athletic Conference champion San Diego Mesa. LBCC put together a three-run, two-out rally in bottom of the first inning and never looked back. Freshman Melyssa Rivas (Santa Fe HS) delivered a RBI double and sophomore Cassie Garcia (Banning HS) and freshman Shanise Compton (North Torrance HS) both hit run-scoring singles to give the Vikings an early 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Danielle Hannan (El Segundo HS) drove in freshman Reanna Guzman (Artesia HS) with a double in the second inning to put LBCC up 4-1.<\/p>\n
San Diego Mesa (27-8) took advantage of a two-out error in the top of the fourth to score a pair of unearned runs off LBCC freshman Frances Campoy (Santa Fe HS) to get within one run at 4-3, but Long Beach put the game out of reach with three more runs in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Campoy went the distance in the win over the Olympians, allowing six hits and three runs (one earned) with two strikeouts. Garcia went 3 for 4 with 2 RBI to lead the Vikings at the plate.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the afternoon, the Vikings couldn\u2019t get anything going offensively against Palomar. Bree Burns held the Vikings hitless for six innings.<\/p>\n
Freshman Liz Melendrez (Banning HS) finally broke up the no-hit bid with a leadoff single in the seventh. Long Beach had runners on second and first with one out, but couldn\u2019t put together a late rally.<\/p>\n
Campoy pitched well in loss against Palomar, allowing three unearned runs and seven hits over six innings.<\/p>\n
For Palomar (20-12), Burns struck out five in the complete-game one-hitter. Brenna Parker went 3 for 4 with a homerun and 3 RBI to lead the Comets\u2019 offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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