No. 1 seed Riverside City College to Host Three Others in Super Regional This Weekend

RIVERSIDE – The Riverside City College (RCC) Tigers women's fastpitch softball team, ranked and seeded No. 1 in Southern California and No. 2 in the state, will host a Super Regional (site A) tournament this weekend at Brown Field (Evans Sports Complex).

 

Riverside (38-3 overall) will face the No. 8-seeded (originally seeded No. 14) Citrus College Owls (26-12) at 5 p.m. to open the four-team, double-elimination affair. RCC's 38 wins ties the club record for most wins, which was set by the 2003 club (38-13). At 8 p.m., the No. 4-seeded (originally seeded No. 5) College of the Canyons Cougars (22-9-2) takes on the No. 5-seeded (originally seeded No. 6) at Santiago Canyon College Hawks (32-9).

 

Riverside is coming off a two-game sweep of the No. 16-seeded Ventura College Pirates by the scores of 8-2 and 2-1 last weekend (Saturday – Sunday, May 4-5). Citrus is coming off a two-game sweep on the three-time defending state champion (No. 3 seed) Cypress College Chargers (33-9) by the scores of 10-7 and 9-0 (six innings) last weekend.

 

Canyons outlasted the No. 12-seeded Saddleback College Gauchos (23-16) last weekend. Saddleback thumped Canyons, 14-5 (five innings) last Saturday, before bouncing back with a pair of wins by the scores of 12-0 (five innings) and 13-0 (five innings). Santiago Canyon dispatched the No. 11-seeded Grossmont College Griffins (24-15) last weekend in two games by the scores of 7-0 and 10-2 (six innings). The Hawks blasted seven home runs in all, including three by Morgan McGee.

 

The weekend's Super Regional tournament continues on Saturday, May 11, when Friday's winners face off in game three at 3 p.m. Friday losers meet in game four at 5:30 p.m. Saturday's game-three loser will meet Saturday's game-four winner in game five at 8 p.m. On Sunday, May 12, Saturday's game-three winner will meet Saturday's game-five survivor in game six at 12 p.m. If a second game is necessary, game seven will be played about 2 p.m.

  

In the other (site B) Super Regional Tournament, the No. 2-seeded Mt. San Antonio College Mounties (37-4) will host the No. 8-seeded (originally No. 9 seed) College of the Desert Roadrunners (31-8) at 5:30 p.m. At 8 p.m., the No. 3-seeded Palomar College Comets (27-12) will face the No. 6-seeded San Diego Mesa College Olympians (32-9).

 

Heading into their fourth consecutive Super Regional appearance (and first time as host), the RCC Tigers have won their last five games and 30 of their last 32. Their only losses during that stretch were the third-place team in the OEC, Santiago Canyon, (March 22, a 1-0 loss, and April 17, a 4-3 loss) in a pair of "walk-off" setbacks in the bottom of the seventh inning. On the positive side, RCC has posted wins over all three teams: Citrus (a five-inning, 15-0 home win, Apr. 13), Canyons (a five-inning, 15-3 road win, Feb. 19), and Santiago Canyon (a five-inning, 17-3 home win, Feb. 27).

 

The two Super Regional tournament bracket winners will advance to the four-team state championships, Friday – Sunday, May 17-19, at the Dean and Adah Gay Sports Complex on the campus of Bakersfield College.