RCTC baseball clinches Southern Division Title with four game sweep of Century College

RCTC baseball clinches Southern Division Title with four game sweep of Century College

Rochester, MN - The RCTC baseball team clinched the Southern Division Title by sweeping past Century College in their four-game series.  The Jackets are now 11-1 in conference play with only four games remaining.  RCTC got a pair of wins on the road Saturday at Century by the scores of 8-3 and 7-6 before returning home on Monday and winning 9-4 and 6-3.

At Century the Jackets got a 7 inning complete game from Rees Campanale to secure the game one win.  Campanale allowed 3 runs on 9 hits over 7 innings.  Luis Rodriguez led the Jacket offense with a pair of homeruns and and 4 RBI.  Owen Vargas and Teagun Ahrens picked up a pair of hits and a double each, while Quinn Larsen picked up a pair of hits. 

In game two on Saturday it was Jerry Santiago going 6 innings while allowing only 2 earned runs that paced the Jackets.  Campanale, fresh off his pitching win in game one had 2 homeruns and 4 RBI, while Griffin Olson added a homerun as well.  

On Monday, the two teams met on the RCTC campus for the final two games of the series.  Game one saw Clement Febus pitch 6 stellar innings, allowing only 6 hits and 1 unearned run enroute to the win.  Campanale homered again and had 3 RBI's, whie Teagun Ahrens was 2-3 with the RBI's.  Campanale, Luis Rodriguez, and Ramon Tehran each had 3 hits in the game.  Ahrens had 3 RBI.

In the final game of the series, Connor Jones went 6 innings, allowing 5 hits and 3 runs (only 2 earned) to pick up the win, while Luis Rodriguez earned the save.  Augusto Mungarrieta went 2-4 with 3 RBI's to pace the Jacket offense.

RCTC is back in action taking on the JV of Luther College in a non-conference single 9 inning game on Wednesday, May 1st at RBC#4.  The Jackets begin theri final conference series on Friday, at home, against Minnesota West. 

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