Irvine Valley's baseball team won its second straight game and fourth in its last five contests on Thursday afternoon.
The Lasers (5-3 overall) put up another double-digit hit game as a team and got a strong start on the mound from sophomore right-hander Kyle Goodbrand in a 9-1 win over Victor Valley at home.
Irvine Valley finished with 14 hits in the game. It was the fourth game in a row that the team has had 12 hits or more.
Sophomore left fielder and lead-off hitter Clint Jack went 3 for 5 with one RBI and raised his batting average to .432 on the year.
Sophomore center fielder Dillon Millar was 3 for 5 with three runs scored, freshman second baseman Tyler Odekirk went 2 for 4 with a run scored, freshman right fielder Weston Ellis was 2 for 5 with one RBI and freshman designated hitter Joseph Gomez was 2 for 3 with a walk, two runs scored and three RBI.
Irvine Valley took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third on a sacrifice fly by sophomore shortstop Jordan Gillerman.
With the game tied, 1-1, in the bottom of the fourth, Millar scored after an error on a pick-off throw by Victor Valley's catcher and then Jack hit an RBI single up the middle to give Irvine Valley the lead for good at 3-1.
IVC made it a 5-1 game in the bottom of the fifth with an RBI single by Ellis and Gomez being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
Gomez knocked in two runs with a single to center field in the bottom of the seventh.
It was all more than enough for Goodbrand, who improved his record to 2-1 on the year.
He went five innings and gave up one unearned run on two hits and a walk with five strikeouts.
Freshman right-hander Adam Lamar threw two scoreless innings and then sophomores Joseph Chacon and Andrew Jimenez closed out the game with a scoreless inning apiece.
IVC pitchers held Victor Valley to just four hits overall.
Anthony Beasley took the loss for Victor Valley to fall to 1-1. He gave up five runs (four earned) on nine hits and one walk.
Victor Valley's record went to 2-7 on the year.
Irvine Valley has the weekend off and will host Long Beach City next Tuesday at 2 p.m.
