For the third consecutive year, Lassen College's baseball team has failed to advance to the second round of the Northern California Regional Playoffs. The Cougars (21-19) was the first team to get ousted from the first-round, double-elimination regional tournament held at Sacramento City College last weekend.

Seeded No. 15 in Northern California, Lassen opened with a 11-0 loss to Sacramento City on Friday and squandered a 4-0 lead to Chabot to fall 8-7 in 10 innings on Saturday.

Sacramento City starting pitcher Erik Lohse held Lassen to just five hits while striking out 12. The Panthers led 3-0 after three innings before adding five runs in the fourth.

Lassen's Josh Ritter and Dayton Hendricks went 2-for-4.

Against Chabot, Lassen led 5-1 through 5-1/2 innings. Chabot responded with three runs in the bottom of the sixth and pushed the game into extra inning innings with two in the eighth.

Chris Wainhouse's RBI-single in the top of the 10th inning gave the Cougars a 7-6 lead, but Chabot scored twice in the bottom of the inning to win it. Joel Hoffman, Derek Neuenschwander, and Wainhouse had two hits.