No. 9 Warriors Down No. 5 Glendale in Extra-Inning Classic to Force Deciding Game

NORWALK, Calif. --- Jack Nammack's RBI double in the bottom of the 10th inning propelled No. 9 El Camino College to an 8-7 walk-off win over No. 5 Glendale on Friday afternoon in game four of the Cerritos Super Regional at Kincaid Field in Norwalk, Calif.

The Warriors and Vaqueros played a classic game in which both teams overcame multi-run deficits with the Warriors doing so on multiple occasions.

The Vaqueros, who eliminated the host and No. 4 seeded Falcons earlier in the day and defeated the Warriors in game one of the tournament on Thursday, took a 3-0 lead in the second.

But the Warriors responded with three runs in the bottom of the third to tie things up and added runs in the fifth and the seventh to take a 5-3 lead with six outs to go.

The Vaqueros answered in the eighth, scoring twice off Henry Sorman to tie things up again.

In the ninth, Henry Sorman recorded the first two outs of the inning but the Vaqueros got back-to-back singles and a throwing error from the Warriors to put runners on second and third. Closer Slater Nunez came in to pitch but catcher Ethan Munoz came through with a two-run single to put the Vaqueros up 7-5 and three outs away from advancing out of the Cerritos Super Regional.

Not to be outdone, the Warriors found some ninth-inning heroics of their own as Ryan Matsukawa led off with a single to right. After a strikeout, Matt Hammond blasted a double to the right-center field gap to put the tying runs in scoring position.

Gil Solis would lift a sacrifice fly to left to bring in Matsukawa to make it 7-6 but the Warriors were left with their final out of the season to work with.

Nunez would make that out was never recorded as he found the right-center gap to plate Hammond and tie things up at 7-7 and send the game into extra innings.

Tyler Tellenbach would toss a scoreless top of the 10th, allowing just one hit. The Warriors, who dropped the designated hitter for a pinch-runner in the eighth inning, sent Tellenbach out to the plate for his first career at-bat.

The freshman pitcher showed he still knew how to use a bat, punching a single up the middle to lead off the 10th. He would later be erased at second on a fielder's choice grounder by Aden Laureano but that baserunner proved pivotal as Nammack unloaded on an 0-1 pitch and sent it to the center field wall. Laureano hustled all the way around from first to score the game-winning run and send the Warriors to Saturday to decide the winner of the Cerritos Super Regional.

The two teams will meet for a third and final time at Kincaid Field on Saturday with first pitch set for noon. The winner will advance to the 3C2A Sectionals next week while the loser will close the book on its 2025 season.