Goddard’s Brad Blackwell beats the tag at the second base by Clovis’ Juan Rivas in the top of the second inning in Tuesday’s opener at Bell Park.

A.J. Marez dives back safely to first base on a pickoff attempt in the bottom of the third in Tuesday’s opener against Roswell Goddard at Bell Park.

Senior catcher Brenden Graham is greeted at home plate in the bottom of the second after hitting a two-run homer in the first game of Tuesday’s doubleheader against Roswell Goddard at Bell Park. Graham hit another one in the bottom of the third.

Clovis High’s baseball team got a big win in the opener, then fell apart in the nightcap.

Senior catcher Brenden Graham hit a pair of two-run homers and the Wildcats outlasted Roswell Goddard 10-8 Tuesday in the first game at Bell Park.

Goddard took advantage of eight Cats errors in the nightcap in running away to a 16-5 victory. Clovis committed 12 errors in the twin bill.

Trailing 4-2 in the opener, the Cats (8-6) put together a walk and four consecutive hits, capped by Graham’s second homer, to score five runs in the third inning for a 7-4 lead they would not relinquish.

Graham followed a leadoff walk to Tanner Massanari in the second with a two-run shot in the second after the Rockets had jumped on top with two unearned runs.

Chris Nunez led off a two-run third for Goddard with a home run.

Junior Matt Woodbury pitched into the sixth inning for the win. After walking in a run in the fourth, he escaped further damage by striking out the side, preserving a 7-5 Clovis lead.

Sophomore Tyler Green earned a save despite giving up a three-run double to Nate Guajardo that pulled Goddard to 9-8 in the top of the sixth. He faced a first-and-third, one-out jam in the seventh, but got out of it by getting a strikeout and a fly ball to center on which Jordan Hill made a sliding catch.

Goddard (13-3) had a 10-8 advantage in hits in the opener, but stranded 11 baserunners — eight in scoring position — to five for the Cats.

Green started the second game and got through the first unscathed, but the Rockets got a two-run double from Brad Blackwell in a three-run second and they were off to the races.

Matt Ramey hit a solo homer in the fourth as the Rockets scored three more to open an 8-0 cushion.

Clovis, limited to four hits by three Rockets pitchers, got an RBI single from Massanari in the fourth and Green in the fifth and added three runs without benefit of a hit when the Rockets got a little sloppy in the bottom of the seventh.

Ryan Greene, who had three of Goddard’s 12 hits, and Guajardo each added two-run homers in the late innings for Goddard.