By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com
Napa Valley College concluded its 2024 spring baseball season on Friday, falling to host Solano Community College in a Bay Valley Conference game, 21-2, in Fairfield.
Joseph Guttmann had a school-record 12 RBIs during an outstanding 5-for-5 performance at the plate that included two home runs, a triple, two doubles and five runs scored, powering Solano in a season-ending Bay Valley series.
Solano (26-13 overall, 16-5 Bay Valley) had 21 hits, nine for extra bases, and scored its runs in bunches – three in the first inning, five in the second inning, four in the third inning, five in the fourth inning, four in the fifth inning.
The game was called in the seventh inning due to the conference's run rule.
Napa Valley ends the season on a six-game losing streak.
Twelve players had at least one hit for Solano, which finished in second place in the conference standings.
Raisean Avila-Dorsey led Napa Valley (9-28 overall, 8-13 Bay Valley), going 3-for-3 with a home run and driving in two runs.
Avila-Dorsey hit a two-run home run in the third inning.
The Storm's other hits came from Vincent Lencioni, 1-for-4; Owen Nelson, 1-for-3; Peyton McGowen, 1-for-4; Christian Hernandez, 1-for-1, double; and Forrest Kistner, 1-for-1.
Napa Valley had three errors, left five runners on base, and struck out eight times.
Solano also got a home run and double from Connor Ross, and doubles from Kevin Parker and Cameron Taylor.
Jorge Lopez-Rios started and took the loss for the Storm, going 2 1/3 innings.
Pitching in relief was Kyle Worden, Isaiah Franco and Jameson Hogarth.
Guttmann had an RBI double in the first inning, a two-run double in the second inning, a three-run home run in the third inning, a three-run triple in the fourth inning, and a three-run homer in the fifth inning.
Solano's other top hitters:
Parker, 3-for-4, four runs scored, two RBIs.
Ross, 3-for-4, two runs scored, three RBIs.
JJ Dain, 2-for-3, three runs scored. Dylan Trammell started and picked up the win for Solano, going five innings.
For the season, the Storm averaged 5.4 runs per game and compiled a .250 batting average, .363 on-base percentage, and .341 slugging percentage, with 11 home runs.
Solano is the No. 15 seed and begins the California Community College Athletic Association Regionals with a best-of-three series at No. 10 seed Folsom Lake College, May 3-4.
* Marty James is a freelance writer who makes his home in Napa. He retired on June 4, 2019 after spending 40 years as a sports writer, sports editor and executive sports editor for the Napa Valley Register, a daily newspaper in Napa County. He is a 1979 graduate of Sacramento State and a member of the California Golf Writers & Broadcasters Association. He was inducted into the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Hall of Fame in 2016, the Vintage High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2019, and the Napa High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2022.