This article has been excerpted from Marin Independent Journal, you can find the full story here: College baseball: College of Marin sweeps Contra Costa with 25-2 win

A threatening gray, overcast sky never produced a drop of rain Saturday afternoon at the tidy College of Marin baseball field.

The College of Marin baseball team’s bats, on the other hand, did more than just threaten. They hit up a storm.

The Mariners completed a dominating three-game sweep of Contra Costa College with a 25-2 walloping of the Comets in a Bay Valley Conference contest in Kentfield.

COM batted through the order – and then some – in both the first and fourth innings, prompting the Comets to concede after five-and-a-half innings.

The Mariners’ one-sided victory came on the heels of an 11-0 romp against the Comets on Wednesday and a 23-0 shellacking of Contra Costa on Thursday to give COM a 3-0 start in conference play.

“Contra Costa is handcuffed by a lack of pitching,” veteran COM coach Steve Berringer said. “They have one good starter and he pitched really well against us on Wednesday. It took us four innings to get to him. Everybody else Contra Costa brought in (to pitch), we had really good at-bats against.”

Winning pitcher Jake Verwiel, a sophomore southpaw, faced the minimum batters in the first. After that, the COM hitters – sparked by D’andre Gaines’ laser beam leadoff homer over the left-field fence – were relentless against Contra Costa starting pitcher Jordan Holmes.