Santa Rosa (2-2) traveled to face the Mariners of the College of Marin (4-2). Santa Rosa was coming off a victory over Shasta College, while Marin was on a two-game skid after dropping the final two games of a three-game series against the College of Sequoias. Gabe Henschel, who was coming off of a 4-5, 4 RBI game, singled to lead off the game, following a walk by Alex Leopard, the Bear Cubs had two runners on one out but could not score. On the mound for Santa Rosa was Tony Suarez, who retired the side in the bottom of the first inning with a strikeout. In the top half of the second, Santa Rosa again had two runners on base but failed to score. Suarez struck out two more batters in the bottom half, and the score remained 0-0. The Bear Cubs left two runners on base for the third consecutive inning without scoring. Marin led off the bottom half of the inning with a walk, and following a popout, Suarez was replaced by Jordan Giacomini. Giacomini surrendered two singles in the inning, and the Mariners scored on a wild pitch to take a 1-0 lead after three innings.

Following a three up, three down in the top half of the fourth, the Mariners continued applying pressure on the Bear Cubs in the bottom half. Marin's leadoff batter doubled in the right-center gap but was thrown out trying to leg out a triple, and two other Mariners reached base but were stranded. In the fifth inning, the Bear Cubs had two runners on base for the fourth time in five innings but could not capitalize. The Mariners also had two runners on in their half of the inning, but Giacomini got out of the jam once more.

The Bear Cub offense was again held scoreless in the sixth. Luke Schat entered from the bullpen and made quick work of Mariner hitters. After 6, 1-0 Marin. Quinn Medin reached on an error by the shortstop and advanced to second on a balk after Henschel was retired. Medin advanced to third after an errant pickoff attempt landed in center field. With the Bear Cubs in position to tie the game, Aidan Lombardi hit a sacrifice fly to right field, scoring Medin and evening up the game. With the bases empty and the game tied 1-1, Leopard crushed a hanging breaking ball over the fence, giving Santa Rosa its first lead of the game at 2-1 in the seventh inning. Schat had a three up, three down shutdown inning to preserve the Bear Cub lead. Santa Rosa had two runners on base in the top half of the eighth, but the score remained 2-1. Schat continued his strong performance on the mound by striking out three batters in the bottom half of the inning. Lombardi reached first base with a walk, but that was it for the Bear Cub offense. In the bottom of the ninth, Marin had the bases loaded with two outs as Santa Rosa was clinging to a 2-1 lead. On the first pitch of the at-bat, Lucas Shaefer of Marin drove a slider to left field but Medin made the catch just shy of the warning track, securing a 2-1 victory for Santa Rosa. The Santa Rosa pitching was the story of the game. Luke Schat got his first winning as a Bear Cub by throwing 4 scoreless innings, striking out 5 batters. The Santa Rosa pitching staff only allowed three walks and struck out 9 hitters over nine innings. No individual Bear Cub had more than one hit, in fact, Santa Rosa only had 7 hits as a team, but had 8 walks. No hit was bigger than the go-ahead solo homerun by Alex Leopard.

Next up: SRJC vs. Canada College, Friday (2/9) at 2:00 PM, Cook Sypher Field.