When Maria Carrillo High and Santa Rosa Junior College alum Jake Scheiner was picked in the fourth round of the Major League Baseball draft Tuesday by the Phillies.
Five members of the Santa Rosa Junior College baseball team will continue their careers with Division I programs. The Bear Cubs, who finished second in the state tournament last month a year after winning it all, also grabbed five All-Big 8 Conference first-team nods.
The Santa Rosa Junior College baseball team didn’t lose without a fight, forcing a decisive seventh game in the CCCAA championship tournament but running out of heroics in an effort to win a second consecutive state title.
The Bear Cubs dispatched Delta last weekend at Cook Sypher Field, winning the NorCal Sectional series 2-1 to advance to their second consecutive California Community College Athletic Association Final Four.
SRJC dropped the series to Delta College 2 games to 1 last week. Bear Cubs fall to a 26-7 overall record and 16-5 in Big 8 Conference play, which puts them in 2nd place in the Big 8.