Torres wins first-ever baseball playoff game

Wendy Alexander/The madera Tribune

Torres’ Joseph Bass (3) congratulates Ryan Lutz after Lutz scored a second inning run during Tuesday’s history-making victory over the Avenal Buccaneers. The win was the first playoff win Toros baseball program history.

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The Matilda Torres Toros baseball team put any thoughts of playoff jitters to rest with an 11-run first inning to cruise to a 20-1 victory in the first round of the Div. VI Central Section playoffs.

The Toros capped off the shortened game with a nine-run third inning to record the first playoff win in the program’s history Wednesday afternoon at Eddie Chapa Field over the 12th seeded Avenal Buccaneers.

The fifth-seeded Toros banged out 17 hits, but also took advantage of six Avenal errors that led to 13 unearned runs for the win.