By MARTY JAMES martyjames.sports@gmail.com

The Napa Valley College baseball team had 10 hits, including a double from Caleb Morant and a triple from Shosei Tatsuno, but lost on Thursday to College of Marin, 10-4, in a Bay Valley Conference game in Kentfield.

Tatsuno was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored.

Morant was 1-for-5.

Napa Valley (7-19 overall, 6-2 Bay Valley Conference) got out to an early 2-0 lead, scoring a run in both the first and second innings.

The loss was the second straight for the Storm, which walked three times, struck out eight times, and left 11 runners on base.

Owen Nelson was 2-for-5 with a run scored.

Mason DeOcampo was 2-for-3 and scored a run.

Hibiki Kodama was 2-for-4.

Myles Gray was 1-for-5 with two RBIs.

Roy Hernandez pitched six innings as the Storm's starter. Hernandez faced 30 batters and gave up eight hits and six runs (all earned), walked three and struck out six.

Shinra Saka pitched an inning, facing seven batters.

Emilio Diaz also pitched an inning, facing four batters.

Napa Valley started off the scoring in the first inning. Tatsuno scored on Gray's RBI single.

Tatsuno tripled in the second inning, driving in Ethan Boatman.

Nelson scored in the ninth inning when Gray reached base on an infield error.

College of Marin had 11 hits.

Derek Bartram was 2-for-5 with a home run, two runs scored and an RBI.

Kisho Li Kircher was 1-for-2 with a home run and two RBIs.

Danil Wells was 2-for-4 with a triple and RBI.

Adrian Ruiz was 2-for-5 with two RBIs and Dante Caiati was 2-for-3.

College of Marin (17-9-1 overall, 7-1 Bay Valley) is in first place in the conference. Tied for second place is Laney College-Oakland (16-11 overall, 6-2 Bay Valley), Los Medanos College-Pittsburg (14-12 overall, 6-2 Bay Valley), and Napa Valley.

Napa Valley and College of Marin meet in the third and final game of the Bay Valley series on Saturday, March 29 at NVC's Storm Field at 1 p.m.

* 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.