Eastfield Inches Closer to DAC Title
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
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Dallas College Eastfield | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 0 |
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Dallas College Mountain View | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
DALLAS – Dallas College Eastfield's No. 3-ranked baseball team will take a two-game lead into the final week in the regular season atop the Dallas Athletic Conference after sweeping Dallas College Mountain View, following Saturday's 7-2 victory.
River Curs doubled twice, and drove in three runs, going 3-for-4, and Tyler Do went five innings, allowing five hits, a run and two walks, while striking out three in collecting his ninth win of the season.
Curs broke a 1-1 tie in the top of the third when he doubled to left field to score Josh Vaughn. The Harvester Bees (41-11, 22-5 DAC) added a couple more in the inning when JJ Bush bunted, and reached base on an error, allowing Curs and Payton Poole to score.
Curs extended the lead to 6-1 an inning later with a single up the middle to drive home Michael Caputo and Vaughn. Mountain View's Shaun Williams doubled to center to bring home Ian Bower in the bottom of the eighth to make it 6-2. But that was all the Bees allowed the rest of the way as Teagan Rehwald came on in the ninth to retire all three batters he faced to lock down the three-game sweep.
Vaughn was 3-for-4 with a walk and three runs scored. Poole went 2-for-4 with an RBI. Aubrey Whitehead was 2-for-5. Bush had a hit, an RBI and a stolen base in four at-bats.
Williams was 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and an RBI for the Lions, who fell to 13-31 and 3-24. Bower went 1-for-3 with a stolen base.
Mountain View reliever Tyler Pelton went five innings, allowing one run on four hits and a walk, and struck out two.
Eastfield, which became one of three teams to win 40 games in the country this week, beat Mountain View, 7-4, on Friday to clinch the series, while moving a game ahead of sixth-ranked Dallas College Richland in the DAC standings. Coupled with Dallas College North Lake's 7-6 10th-inning win over Richland Saturday, the Bees added a two-game cushion to their lead over the Thunderducks.
The Harvester Bees host North Lake for the final two games of the regular season Friday and Saturday after beginning the series with the Blazers Wednesday in Irving, Texas.