Third baseman Brian Gaylord drove in the winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning to lead the Cerritos College baseball team to a 5-4 victory over visiting East Los Angeles College last Saturday.

Shortstop Max McEleney scored twice and drove in the tying run in the bottom of the eighth.

The win brings the Falcons’ record to 8-6 overall and 2-1 in South Coast Conference play.

Earlier in the season, the Falcons lost, 17-3, to Compton College last Tuesday and followed the loss up with a win, 8-4, over Los Angeles Harbor.

“It started with the game against Harbor as a team we started playing better and to finish of the week with a win against East Los Angles was great for us,” assistant coach Jack Brooks said.

The Falcons will play to more conference games this week against El Camino on Thursday at 2 p.m. and then on Saturday against Pasadena at noon.

The scoring was started by Cerritos in the bottom of the first inning of last Saturday’s game against East Los Angeles when they had a player on third, McEleney, when Huskies pitcher Fernando Garcia threw a wild pith that let McEleney score.

In the top of the next inning, the Huskies came back to tie the game when the Falcons’ starting pitcher Skye Severns threw a wild pitch of his own.

Severns was wild all game, walking three batters and throwing two wild pitches in 3 1/3 innings.

“He has a great arm,” head coach Ken Gaylord said. “He is putting to much pressure on himself right now.”

Every time the Falcons would tie or go ahead, the Huskies would answer right back until the bottom of the eighth when the Falcons scored two runs and were able to go ahead for good.

“We haven’t been able to come from behind this season so it’s a good sign that we are headed in the right direction,” coach Gaylord said.