College baseball: Lions fall, 5-4

RIVERSIDE - Vanguard University’s comeback bid fell short as its

baseball team lost, 5-4, to host Cal Baptist in a Golden State Athletic

Conference game Tuesday.

Cal Baptist led, 5-2, before the Lions scored runs in the eighth and

ninth innings. Bryan Davis had three hits in four at-bats for the Lions,

and Shane Lariba scored two of Vanguard’s runs. Vanguard outhit Cal

Baptist, 13 to 7.

Vanguard falls to 4-12 overall, 2-9 in the GSAC.

GOLDEN STATE ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

Cal Baptist 5, Vanguard 4

Score by innings

Vanguard 100 001 011 - 4 13 1

Cal Baptist 120 000 20x - 5 7 2

Case, Williams (8) and Dodos; Stien, Blackburn (7), Loggia (8), Horn (9)

and Johnstone. W - Stien, 2-3; L - Case. 2B - Hendricks (CB), HR -

Hendricks (CB).