The VC softball team put up a fight Saturday, but did not have enough to extend their season in a 3-0 defeat at Cypress in Game 2 of their best-of-three series with the Chargers. Baylany Magana had an admirable performance in the circle for the No. 15-seeded Pirates, allowing three runs on five hits through seven complete innings. She also had on of Ventura's five hits in the game against No. 2 Cypress.
The Chargers, playing as the visiting team in the second game of the series, scored in he top of the first before adding two runs in the fifth inning.
Ba. Magana had her single in the first inning and VC did not have another base runner until Sophia Valencia and Dakota Moore hit back-to-back singles with one out in the bottom of the fifth.
Savanna Higgins recorded a bas hit in the sixth and Alyssa Castaneda reached base with a single in the seventh, but Ventura was unable to push a runner around to score.
Ventura finishes the season at 27-10 overall. They also posted a 12-2 record in Western State Conference North Division play winning the conference in head coach Julia Tamai's first year at the helm of the Pirates' ship.