CULIACAN 5, MAZATLAN 2 IN MAZATLAN

Batting stars:  Carlos Munoz was 3-for-4.  Anthony Giansanti was 2-for-3 with a double and a walk.

Pitching stars:  Tomas Solis pitched 1.2 scoreless innings, giving up two hits.  Juan Ramon Noriega pitched 1.2 scoreless innings, giving up a hit and a walk.

Opposition stars:  Manny Barreda pitched 6.1 innings, giving up two runs on ten hits and one walk and striking out two.  Jose Guadalupe Chavez was 3-for-5 with two doubles and two runs.  Alexis Wilson was 2-for-3 with a walk.  Alan Sanchez was 2-for-3.  Michael Wing was 2-for-5 with a two-run homer, his fourth.  Ramiro Pena was 2-for-5 with a two-run homer, his third.

The game:  Mazatlan scored in the first when Isaac Paredes doubled and scored on a Munoz single.  Culiacan tied it in the second when Eric Meza doubled and scored on an Alan Sanchez single.  Mazatlan took a 2-1 lead in the fourth when Munoz singled, went to third on a Giansanti double, and scored on a sacrifice fly.

It was all Culiacan from there.  In the fifth Chavez doubled and Pena homered to put Culiacan up 3-2.  It stayed 3-2 until the ninth, when Chavez singled and Wing homered, bringing it to the total of 5-2.

WP:  Barreda (4-2).  LP:  Carlos Morales (2-1).  S:  Alberto Baldonado (9).

Notes:  Paredes was 1-for-4 and is batting .339.  Munoz raised his average to .328.  Jose Augusto Figueroa was 1-for-4 and is batting .314.

Morales started and pitched 4.1 innings, giving up three runs on eight hits and one walk and striking out four.

Noriega's ERA remains zero.  Gabino Avalos retired the only man he faced and also has an ERA of zero.

Mazatlan had eleven hits and two walks, but scored just two runs.  They had only two extra-base hits, both doubles.

Record:  Mazatlan is 15-18, in eighth place, seven games behind Obregon.  They are only one game out of sixth.

Next game:  Mazatlan again hosts Culiacan tonight.