Nammack’s Heroics Lift Warriors Past Eagles in Extras

TORRANCE, Calif. --- Sophomore Jack Nammack had an outstanding day offensively and capped it off with a bases-clearing double in the bottom of the 10th to lift El Camino College to an 8-7 win over Mount San Jacinto in extra innings on Saturday afternoon at Warrior Field.

Nammack led the Warriors offense as he went 3-for-5 with a run scored and drove in all three of his RBI when it mattered most to help the Warriors overcome a two-run deficit in extra innings.

Cameron O'Neil picked up the win on the mound as he went two and 2/3 innings of relief, allowing two runs on four hits with two strikeouts. He entered the game in the eighth inning with runners on first and second and one out with the Warriors leading 5-4. He was able to get the second out but hit two straight batters to force in the game-tying run. He would strike out Juni Rodriguez to keep the game tied and then tossed a scoreless ninth.

The Warriors had their chance to win in the bottom of the ninth, getting runners on second and third with one out but they could not cash in the runners and the game was off to extra innings.

In the 10th, the Eagles got a big hit from first baseman Steven Kirtides, who doubled off the wall in right-center with two on and two out, clearing the bases and putting ECC in a 7-5 hole heading to the bottom half of the inning.

The Eagles brought in Saul Fregozo in relief to try and close it out, but the Warriors had none of that. O'Neil led off and was hit by a pitch and then Gio Crow muscled a double to right-center field, putting the game-tying run in scoring position with no outs. Daniel Craig then drew a walk to load the bases and the Eagles went back to the bullpen.

Right-hander Slater Theisen drew the task to try and save the game for the Eagles but Nammack smacked a line drive the bounced just inside the foul line in left field and then rolled all the way to the wall.

O'Neil and Crow scored easily and Craig slid past Eagles' catcher Mark Rezkalah's tag attempt with the game-winning run and the Warriors' dugout cleared out to celebrate the walk-off win.

Neither starting pitcher factored into the decision but both pitched well as Adrian Pineda allowed three unearned runs in six innings for the Warriors while left-hander Chad Horton allowed one run on three hits with four strikeouts in six innings of work.

The Warriors are set to return to action on Tuesday as they hit the road to take on Cypress with first pitch scheduled for 1:30 p.m.