This past weekend, the Falcons baseball team season has come to an end in a playoff series fight with Mt. San Jacinto College.

Cerritos won its first ball game against the Eagles, 8-7, which gave it the opportunity to close out Mt. San Jacinto on May 11.

The second game would turn out as the Falcons may have hoped although pitcher George Sanchez pitched a solid ball game through the first four innings.

In that dreadful fourth inning, Sanchez managed to hit his third batter followed by a throwing error at the plate which, put base runners at first and third base.

Cerritos took a 13-7 loss in that second game.

The losses Cerritos took were not easy ones as the Falcons rallied back from deficits, attempting comebacks.

The Eagles showed strong and disciplined bats and that aspect of the games would decide the outcome for both teams.

In the third ball game, which was played 30 minutes after the first game on Saturday afternoon, Cerritos opened up with a 6-0 lead through the first six innings and had a 10-3 lead through the seventh inning until Mt. San Jacinto managed a comeback of its own.

The Falcons ended up with a 12-11 loss, which had to be heart-breaking as well as frustrating, considering the lead Cerritos had and what was at stake.

On a bit of a bright spot for Cerritos baseball that series, first baseman Josh Bryan hit a two-run home run in the sixth inning of that second game and tallied up three RBI hits. 

In the loss for the Falcons in the last game, Bryan hit a three-run homer and third baseman Brian Gaylord hit a solo home run.

The Eagles started pitcher Skye Severns in the seond ball game after he got a saved game on relief duties in the first game.

He only lasted about two and two-thirds innings, giving up three runs in the process.

The difference for the Falcons’ loss was Mt. San Jacinto pitcher BJ Salsbury, who had a successful regular season this year.

He finished the last ball game with a save and ended the Falcons season.

Although Cerritos baseball continues to make the playoffs, the Falcons have faild to win a playoff series in the last six years.

The Eagles’ pitching, that has been the story of the series, turned out to be the achilles heal of the Falcons.

Perhaps the youth of the Falcons ended its season but as coach Jack Brooks put it, the experienced gained, win or lose, will be a learned tool for the future.