Warriors Clinch Share of South Coast Conference Title with Win over LA Harbor

TORRANCE, Calif. – For the first time since 2010, No. 1 El Camino College has claimed at least a share of the South Coast Conference title after scoring an 11-2 victory over Los Angeles Harbor Saturday afternoon at Warrior Field.

The Warriors (30-2, 17-0) currently lead second-place Long Beach City by 5.5 games in the standings with ECC having five conference games left on the schedule. The next Warriors win or Vikings loss will clinch the SCC title outright for ECC.

ECC claimed its fourth conference title all-time on Saturday and first in seven years as sophomore Taylor Rashi shut down the visiting Seahawks (12-18-1, 7-9). The right-hander tossed eight dominant innings, allowing just one unearned run on three hits. He did not issue a walk and struck out a career-high 13 batters, facing just four batters more than the minimum to pick up his ninth win of the season and the 22nd straight win for ECC.

Offesnively, Trevor Casanova led the way for the Warriors as he went 2-for-4 with a home run, three RBIs and three runs scored. Hunter Lewis had two doubles while Ryan Eastburn, Noah Barba and Cody Wissler all had two hits on the day. Brady Dorn was 1-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored.

The Warriors took a quick lead in the first inning on a sacrifice fly from Angel Mora but the Seahawks got the run back in the top of the fourth after Casanova's pickoff attempt at first found its way into right field, allowing Mike Gonzalez to score from second base to knot things up at 1-1.

But the Warriors regained the lead in the bottom of the inning with a two-run single from Casanova up the middle against Seahawks starter Fernando Rivas.

After a scoreless fifth, the Warriors opened the floodgates as they scored three times in the sixth and then added another five in the seventh to put the game out of reach and complete their third straight series sweep in the SCC-South Division and seventh straight sweep in conference play overall.

The Warriors take a break from conference play next week as they open up a three-game non-conference series against Los Angeles Mission College on Tuesday afternoon.