North Lake Takes Series Opener at Mountain View

DALLAS – Dallas College North Lake won the opening game of a three-game series with Dallas College Mountain View, 11-4, Wednesday on the road.

The series shifts to North Lake Friday and Saturday for a pair of noon matinees.

The Blazers (13-16, 5-5 Dallas Athletic Conference) pounded 15 hits. It was the fifth time this season they've produced 15 or more hits in a game.

North Lake right fielder Carlos Pirela crushed a three-run home run on a 2-2 count in the top of the fifth inning. That broke a 2-2 tie, and propelled the Blazers ahead for good. They scored two runs in each of the next two innings, and another in the ninth.

Mountain View, which entered the week on a six-game winning streak, scored once in the sixth and another in the eighth, but it wasn't enough.

Pirela went 3-for-5, and scored three times, bumping his team-leading season average to .373. It was his second homer of the season.

Carter Mach was 3-for-6 with three RBI. Danny Berenthy and Blake Butler each had two hits in the designated hitter spot, while Butler drove in a pair. Ethan Revilla went 2-for-4. Tyler Yancey doubled and walked in three plate appearances. Robert Farr and Michael Riberich each had one hit, while Farr and Eric DeAnda had an RBI apiece. Jeremy Kennard had two stolen bases, a walk and a run scored. Berenthy, Farr and Revilla also had one stolen base apiece.

Anthony Winters and Jafed Parilla both went 2-for-4 for Mountain View (12-13, 3-7). Parilla drove in a run. Adrian Cindo and Bobby Ramirez both doubled, and drove in a run. Alex Munoz was 1-for-3, and Zion Webster went 1-for-4.

North Lake starter Gabby Aragon (1-1) went six innings, allowing six hits, three runs, one earned, with no walks, and struck out six in the win. Logan Lathrop worked two innings, allowing two hits, a run and a walk, while fanning three. Jackson Jones closed the door, pitching a flawless ninth with two strikeouts.