For the second straight year, the postseason for the Santa Rosa Junior College baseball team ended in the Northern California finals as the 11th-seeded Bear Cubs fell 6-5 to No. 2 Ohlone College in a winner-take-all matchup Sunday afternoon in Fremont.

Ohlone (40-8), which advances to the state championship tournament for the first time since 2022, broke a 5-5 tie in the bottom of the eighth with a two-out RBI single. The go-ahead run scored from second after the runner stole the base just prior to the hit.

SRJC (34-15) got the tying run to second in the top of the ninth inning with two outs, but a groundout left him stranded.

The Bear Cubs reached the NorCal regional final by defeating College of Marin in the opening round and then topping Modesto in three games in the Super Regional round.

SRJC dropped Friday’s opener in the best-of-three NorCal series against Ohlone, 11-8, then bounced back Saturday with a 5-4 victory.

On Sunday, Santa Rosa fell behind 4-0 early as the Renegades scored four runs over the first two innings. SRJC rallied in the top of the fourth as Brett Neidlinger hit a solo home run and Cooper Wood hit a two-run shot later in the inning.

Then, in the seventh, JT Summers drew a bases-loaded walk to tie the game 4-4 before Chase Sutherland had a sacrifice fly to give SRJC its first lead of the game at 5-4.

Ohlone got the run right back in the bottom of the seventh inning on an RBI single.

The three-day California Community College Athletic Association championship tournament, featuring the final four teams, begins Friday in Irvine.

In addition to Ohlone, Feather River will represent Northern California in the tournament. Santa Ana and Palomar are the teams from Southern California.