INZANE!

By Brandon Petersen

What a difference a year makes.

The last time the Westcliff baseball team saw BenU, the Redhawks were showing the Warriors the playoff door.

After Saturday at Orange Coast College, the Dubs are 6-1 and sitting pretty, and BenU is still looking for its first win.

That will come soon enough, the Redhawks are always among the nation's best baseball teams, which is why the Warriors have a lot to celebrate early on in their season.

A whole heck of a lot has gone right.

And even when it hasn't, like when BenU took a convincing lead into the eighth in Game 1 Saturday (and when they tied it in the ninth the night before), the Warriors found a way around, over or through the adversity to come out on the other side unscathed.

Saturday's heroics were stashed away, probably underneath a surfboard somewhere, with Zane Parmenter's name written all over them.

Not only did Parmenter win the game in the bottom of the ninth with a two-out, two-RBI single to center plating both Christian Bartholomew and Kailen Kimata, he also scored Bartholomew with a single in the eighth and came around to make it 6-5 when Ian Avalos doubled to left.

Parmenter finished the game 3-for-3 with four RBIs and a run scored, while his partner in crime, Bartholomew, notched a 2-for-4 day with three runs scored.

Jack Varney was 2-for-4 with a free pass and an RBI.

Avalos, Micah Wallette, Martin Sanchez, Alex Hall (two BBs) and Elijah Guemez (RBI) all notched a knock apiece.

On the bump, Eddie Rios took his turn and was solid once again, turning in six full of two-run ball (one earned), striking out four.

Rios scattered seven and walked two.

Ryan O'Charchin picked up the win on an inning and a third of hitless work in which he struck out a pair.

Game 2 wasn't competitive early on.

By the time Jack Varney hit his fourth homerun of the season, a three-run jack that plated both Bartholomew and Avalos, the score was 8-1 in the fourth.

In the second, Wallette picked up an RBI sac fly (Kimata), and Parmenter had one more in his bag – this time pulling out an RBI double that plated Patrick Morgan.

In the third, Bartholomew made it a day for the books with a two-run shot to left that scored Avalos.

Morgan then plated Varney with a double.

Varney added the cherry on top to his epic weekend in the sixth when he made it 9-1 with a single to right that scored KJ Moo-Young.

Varney went 3-for-4 with four RBIs and two runs scored.

Camden Cooper got the start and the win on four innings of three-hit ball, allowing one earned.

Cooper struck out five and walked a pair.

On Tuesday the Warriors (6-1) host Oregon Tech for a single game before The Master's comes calling for a double-dip Friday.

First pitch Tuesday is scheduled for 6 p.m.