Porterville College Athletics celebrated an outstanding 2018-19 season on and off the field on Monday night at the 11th annual Academic and Athletic Achievement Awards.
Porterville College opened a three-game Central Valley Conference series on Tuesday with a 7-2 loss at Taft College. Game 2 is set for Thursday (Apr. 11) in Porterville at 2 p.m. with Saturday’s (Apr. 13) series finale scheduled for 1 p.m. back in Taft.
Porterville College is still in search of its first Central Valley Conference win after dropping all three games of a conference series to first-place College of the Sequoias.
Cerro Coso College sent 19 batters to the plate in the top of the ninth inning and scored 13 runs on its way to handing Porterville College a miserable 22-1 loss to open a three-game Central Valley Conference series on Tuesday.
Freshman Isaiah Moscorro put together his finest day at the plate this season for the Pirates, going 3 for 4 in Porterville College’s 10-5 loss to West Hills College Coalinga in the opening game of a three-game Central Valley Conference series on Tuesday.
Porterville College will be glad to not have to face Reedley College again this season. After an 18-1 loss to the Tigers on Thursday, the two squads wrapped up their three-game Central Valley Conference series with Reedley routing the Pirates 22-0 on Saturday afternoon.
The Porterville College Pirates learned early on that it might be a rough day. First, due to poor field conditions, the second game of their Central Valley Conference series with Reedley College was moved from Pirate Stadium to Reedley. And with Reedley as the official visitor, the Tigers put up eight runs in the top of the first inning on their way to an 18-1 victory over the Pirates.
Porterville College totaled a season-high 11 hits, but couldn’t come away with a win and lost its Central Valley Conference opener at Reedley College by a final score of 6-2 on Tuesday.
The wait is finally over. It took 17 games but Porterville College is in the win column thanks to a narrow 3-2 victory over visiting Barstow Community College in the second game of a non-conference doubleheader on Friday.
The Porterville College Pirates couldn’t get much going offensively in a pair of losses to visiting Ohlone College on Wednesday. PC dropped the opener 10-0 in 8 innings and fell 15-2 in Game 2.
It was a rough day for Porterville College pitchers on Friday. City College of San Francisco came to town and put up a combined 27 runs over two games to sweep a doubleheader at Pirate Stadium.
The rough start to the 2019 season for Porterville College continued on Friday. College of the Siskiyous came to town and put up a combined 25 runs over two games to sweep a doubleheader at Pirate Stadium.
Porterville College’s bats appeared ready for its three-game, season-opening series at home against Lassen College as the Pirates totaled 24 hits. Unfortunately, PC’s pitching had a rough time keeping Lassen’s offense in check and Porterville was wept over the weekend by a combined score of 36-9.