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Sat Feb 22
12:00 PM
Taft
at Oxnard
DH
Sat Feb 22
2:00 PM
Taft
at Oxnard
DH
Sat Feb 22
2:00 PM
Taft
at Coalinga
Tue Feb 25
12:00 PM
Allan Hancock
vs. Taft
Tue Feb 25
2:00 PM
Allan Hancock
vs. Taft
Tue Feb 25
2:00 PM
Taft
at Porterville
Wed Feb 26
12:30 PM
at Big 8 Conference #3
San Jose City / Half Moon Bay GC, Old Course
Thu Feb 27
1:00 PM
Taft
at Monterey Peninsula
Thu Feb 27
2:00 PM
Porterville
vs. Taft
Thu Feb 27
3:00 PM
Taft
at Monterey Peninsula
Sat Mar 01
11:00 AM
Siskiyous
vs. Taft
Sat Mar 01
1:00 PM
Siskiyous
vs. Taft
Sat Mar 01
2:00 PM
Taft
at Porterville
Mon Mar 03
12:00 PM
at State Preview
Bayonet GC / Monterey, CA
Tue Mar 04
1:00 PM
Taft
at Merced
Doubleheader
No Event
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No Event
No Event
No Event
Tue Feb 11
Final
4 Taft
13 at Antelope Valley
Wed Feb 12
Final
8 Taft
9 at Bakersfield
Fri Feb 14
Final
3 Bakersfield
2 vs. Taft
Tue Feb 18
Final
2 Taft
1 at Coalinga
Thu Feb 20
Final
1 Coalinga
7 vs. Taft
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No Event
No Event
No Event
Wed Feb 05
Final
57 Taft
72 at Fresno
Sat Feb 08
Final
55 Porterville
71 vs. Taft
Wed Feb 12
Final
57 Taft
64 at Merced
Sat Feb 15
Final
90 Taft
93 at Reedley
Fri Feb 21
Final
50 Lemoore
62 vs. Taft
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No Event
No Event
No Event
Mon Apr 20
Postponed
at Big 8 South #9 (Monterey Peninsula)
@ Del Monte GC, Monterey
Mon Apr 27
Postponed
at Big 8 South #10 (Sierra)
@ Yolo Fliers GC, Woodland
Mon May 04
Postponed
at Nor-Cal Championships
@ Coyote Creek GC, San Jose
Mon May 11
Postponed
at CCCAA State Championships
@ Bear Creek GC, Murrieta
Tue Feb 22
Cancelled
at Big 8 South #3
Fresno / Madera GCC
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Tue Sep 03
Final
Reedley L, 344-396
Taft / Buena Vista GC
Thu Sep 05
Final
at Conference Tournament #1 L, 325-415
Reedley / Kings River GCC
Tue Sep 10
12:00 PM
Conference Tournament #2 L, 318-375
Taft / North Kern GC
Tue Sep 17
12:00 PM
at Conference Tournament #3 L, 330-424
Fresno / Sunnyside CC
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No Event
No Event
No Event
Fri Nov 08
Final
0 Merced
0 vs. Taft
Tue Nov 12
Final
3 Taft
0 at Lemoore
Fri Nov 15
Final
3 Fresno
1 vs. Taft
Wed Nov 20
Final
0 Sequoias
1 vs. Taft
Northern California Regional Playoffs / Round 1
Sat Nov 23
Final - 2OT
1 Taft
1 at Folsom Lake
1-1 (4-2)
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No Event
No Event
No Event
Tue Nov 05
Cancelled
Taft
at Porterville
Fri Nov 08
Final
3 Fresno
0 vs. Taft
Tue Nov 12
Final
0 Taft
4 at Lemoore
Fri Nov 15
Final
0 Merced
0 vs. Taft
Wed Nov 20
Final
0 Taft
4 at West Valley
3C2A NorCal Regional Tournament Round One
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No Event
No Event
No Event
Fri Feb 14
Final
4 Taft
2 at LA Valley
Game One of Double Header
Fri Feb 14
Final
6 Taft
1 at LA Valley
Game Two of Double Header
Tue Feb 18
Final - 8 innings
3 Cerro Coso
4 vs. Taft
@ Taft College
Thu Feb 20
Final
2 Shasta
4 vs. Taft
@ Taft College
Thu Feb 20
Final
3 Shasta
9 vs. Taft
@ Taft College
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No Event
No Event
No Event
Wed Nov 06
Final
1 Taft
3 at Fresno
25-11, 25-11, 16-25, 25-13
Wed Nov 13
Final
0 Porterville
3 vs. Taft
25-19, 25-12, 25-11
Fri Nov 15
Final
3 Taft
1 at Sequoias
Tue Nov 26
Final
1 Hartnell
3 vs. Taft
NorCal Regionals, Round 2, 22-25, 25-14, 25-12, 25-18
Sat Nov 30
Final
0 Taft
3 at Sierra
NorCal Regionals Round 3, 25-12, 25-15, 25-21
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Cougars Baseball Lose Series 2-1 against Merced College

Photo by Taft Midway Driller / @midwaydriller
Photo by Taft Midway Driller / @midwaydriller

By Brendan Hamilton

TAFT, CA – A low scoring baseball affair took place on Tuesday, March 5 between the Taft College Cougars and the Merced College Blue Devils as conference play resumed. Kaleb Hay took the mound for game one of the series and he went 7 innings of 1 unearned run, baseball. Ian Gross took over and finished the job, going 2 scoreless innings. In the fourth inning, Merced took advantage of a passed ball and opened the scoring, but that would remain their only run of the game. Similarly, the Cougars struggled on offense and could not score until the ninth inning. With runners on second and third after a walk and a single, Elijah Olaybal stepped up to the plate and hit a ball off the left field wall easily scoring 1. Jackson Berry was given the stop sign from assistant coach Fabian Gutierrez, yet he ran through the sign sliding into home safely to win the game.

In Merced, game 2 of the series did not go as planned for the Cougars. In the first inning the Cougars rallied off their momentum from the previous game to plate 2. However, in the bottom half of the first Merced strongly rebounded to score 7 runs. Merced kept tacking on runs as they scored 2 in the second and 3 in the third to go up 12-2. Chance Morbeck came in and shut the door for a couple of innings giving the Cougars an opportunity to strike back, but this strike did not come. Instead, Merced scored 2 more in the sixth, going up 14-2. The Cougars rallied in the late innings, putting 7 runs on the board in the seventh, eighth, and ninth inning. The final score came out to be 14-9 in favor of Merced.

Once again, the Cougars rallied off their late game momentum into game 3, scoring 1 in the bottom of the first to go up 1-0. Merced tied it up in the top of the second, but the Cougars responded quickly, scoring 1 in the bottom of the third to regain the lead. A lead that would be short lived as Merced scored 7 in the top of the fourth. The Cougars started chipping away and put up 2 in the bottom of the fourth, but Merced added 2 more runs in the top of the fifth, a crushing blow. Merced again put up 2 in the seventh and kept the Cougars off the board for the remainder of the game. The game ended at 12-4 for Merced.

The next series of the season is against College of the Sequoias, starting on Tuesday, March 12 in Visalia. The next Cougar home game is on March 14 at 2:00 pm.