Pirates drop 10th straight game

The Porterville College baseball team’s slump continues as the Pirates dropped their latest game 10-2, extending their losing streak to a season-high 10 games.

PC was nearly shutout in Tuesday’s Central Valley Conference game at Reedley in the first game of a three-game series. The Pirates play the Tigers again at 2 p.m. at home, before traveling to Reedley on Saturday for a 1 p.m. game.

Jordon Grader (1-7) was the losing pitcher for PC (3-20, 0-7 CVC) after going 5 1/3 innings giving up 13 hits and six earned runs, including a home run. Grader did not walk any batters and had one strikeout.

Connor Carson relieved Grader and went 1 1/3 innings before he was relieved by Andrew Vivanco. Carson gave up three hits and four runs, three of them earned. He also had one walk and one strikeout, while Vivanco gave up two walks.

The top of the order consisting of Daniel Alviso, Marcos Alvarez and Dane Wasden had three of PC’S four hits in the game. Batting fifth, Jordan Szolek had the other hit. Szolek and Wasden each scored a run for the Pirates in the seventh.

One positive for PC was that they limited their errors to just one while Reedley (15-8, 3-4

CVC) had three.

Porterville’s last win was on Feb. 23 against Barstow, 8-5. It snapped an eight-game skid. Lindsay 10 Woodlake 7

The Lindsay softball team picked up a 10-7 road win against Woodlake in Tuesday’s East Sequoia League game.

The Cardinals went up 3-0 in the first inning and never trailed. They had 14 hits and three errors in the game.

Granite Hills 3 Tranquillity 0

Granite Hills came out on top in a 3-0 shutout of Tranquillity in Tuesday’s non-league game on the road.

Grizzlies pitcher Illiana Castillo struck out the first six batters she faced and finished with six strikeouts on the day.

“We played excellent defense by minimizing our errors the whole game,” GHHS head coach Rosie Campos said. Tuesday matches postponed

Tuesday’s boys tennis matches, Granite Hills at Orosi and Strathmore hosting Lindsay, were postponed due to rain.

Granite Hills’ match is rescheduled for Monday, March 27. A new date has not been set for Strathmore’s match.