Sports
It's Hammer Time For Surging Chabot Baseball
Gladiators enter the week riding a five-game winning streak
The Chabot College baseball team continued to surge with its fifth consecutive victory, 11-2 over West Valley in the Coast-North at Steve Friend Stadium on Saturday, April 16.
The Gladiators (21-12, 9-6) have won 10 of their past 12 games. In the blowout triumph over West Valley, starting pitcher Gabe Tanner went six strong innings with seven strikeouts, allowing no runs and walking two. He improved to 5-4 on the season.
Reliever Josh Caravalho struck out three over 1.2 innings.
Chabot pounded out 12 hits and broke the game open with six runs in the fourth inning and four more in the eighth.
Justin Durflinger was 3 for 5 with two doubles, Matt Sugden slugged a three-run homer and had four RBIs.
Sam Gilliam -- ranked fifth in the Coast-North in batting average at .356 -- belted a grand slam in the eighth and also doubled. Nick Maestas and Fred Ramos had multi-hit games.
Brian Duroff, Gilliam and Sugden each have seven home runs to rank tied for 23rd in the state, and tied for second in the conference.
In other action last week, Chabot walloped Canada in back-to-back games by the scores of 15-5 at home and 12-1 away.
In the 12-1 romp, Hawk Hill delivered the goods from the mound with six strikeouts over six innings. Sugden was 1 for 4 with three RBI, Gilliam was 2 for 5 with two RBI, and Maestas was 1 for 3 with two RBI. Durflinger, Fernando Sansone and Alonzo Guijarro all had multi-hit games.
Traditionally aggressive on the base paths, Chabot has two players tied atop the conference rankings in stolen bases in Durflinger and Jon Jon Gazdar, with 18 base thefts apiece. They are also tied for 13th in the state.
In the 15-5 triumph, Chabot amassed 15 hits and starting pitcher Bryce Clark had five strikeouts over five innings.
The offense brought out the big bats.
Duroff, also ranked fifth in the conference in RBI with 28, was 1 for 3 with a homer and two RBI. Sugden was 2 for 4 with a grand slam. Sansone homered and tripled. Guijarro was 2 for 4 with a homer and two RBI.
Also, Gazdar was 2 for 2 with two doubles, and Ramos was 2 for 4 with a double and three RBI.
Chabot, in fourth place, will look to keep it rolling down the stretch, traveling to West Valley (at Mission College) on Tuesday and then hosting CCSF at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday. Chabot travels to CCSF on Saturday.
