Kyle Riveron helps Live Oak muscle past Leland, 10-2

Live Oak scored 10 runs on 19 hits to thump Leland 10-2 Thursday in San Jose.
The Acorns even their league record back to 5-5 after losing to the Chargers on Tuesday.
With four games to play, Live Oak is in a four-way tie for fourth place—the final automatic berth from the Mt. Hamilton Division—and two games back of Branham for first place.
The Acorns will Pioneer starting next week and will finish up with Branham to close out the regular season.
So Live Oak is very much in the mix for a possible league title or, failing that, a playoff berth.
On Thursday, the Acorns needed to get back in the win column to stay in the playoff hunt after dropping a heartbreaker on Tuesday.
Kyle Riveron was a triple shy of the cycle, going 4-5 with a three-run homerun in the fifth and five RBIs.
Josh Alaniz also went 4-5 with three runs scored, followed by Zach Riveron going 2-4 with two RBIs and a run scored.
Justin Sanders, Michael Porras, John Austin and Mitch Conforti all added two hits in the effort.
Porras got the win, throwing a complete game, giving up two runs, one earned, on six hits and two walks with four strikeouts.
Live Oak started off quick with two runs in the first coming off a double from Kyle Riveron to score Alaniz and a single from Zach Riveron to score his brother.
After Zach Riveron scored one in the third on a single from Austin, Live Oak broke the game open with three in the fourth.
The Acorns sent nine men to the plate, including six in a row reaching safely with one out.
Jacob Ryder got things rolling with a single, sparking a series if six straight singles that led to him scoring along with Alaniz and Sanders.
Kyle Riveron, one inning later, put the exclamation point on the game when he blasted a three-run homer to left-center to score Alaniz and Sanders.
Conforti had scored earlier in the inning on a single from Sanders.
Leland, meanwhile, scored once in the first when a two-out error allowed a runner to score from third.
After Live Oak went up 3-1 in the third, the Chargers got one back in the bottom half of the inning on a solo homer.
Leland mustered just three more hits from that point.
Live Oak will kick off the home stretch within the friendly confines of their own park 4 p.m. Tuesday.