CARSON --
Johnnie Haas,
Chris Olsen and
Justin Watson all homered as Cal State San Bernardino took advantage of six Cal State Dominguez Hills errors in taking an 8-6 CCAA baseball win over the Toros in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader at Toro Field.
The Toros came back in the nightcap to win 7-4 despite home runs by the Coyotes'
Brent Planck and
Jason Klug.
The Coyotes are now 10-8 on the season and 2-5 in the CCAA while the Toros are 7-14 overall and 4-4 in the conference. CSUSB will host Sonoma State for a four-game series starting next Friday at Arrowhead Credit Union Park.
CSUSB went up 3-0 in the first two innings of game one. Mike Minjares led off the first with a triple and scored on Haas' infield hit. In the second inning, after
Danny Soles reached base on an error, Watson homered to left center.
The Toros then jumped on Coyotes starter
Kevin Wilson (2-1) for two runs in the second and three more in the third to lead 5-3. CSUSB tied the game a 5-all in the fifth with two runs on one hit and two Toro errors. In the sixth, CSUSB moved ahead 7-6 on a two-run homer by Haas after
Brent Planck walked.
The Coyotes picked up an insurance run in the ninth on Olsen's solo homer to left. In the meantime, relievers
David Martin,
Michael Leal and
Ward Minich llimited the Toros to just three hits over the final 2.2 innings with Minich picking up his fourth save.
In the nightcap, the Coyotes pulled ahead 4-2 after three innings, thanks to a first-inning solo homer by Planck and a third-inning, two-run homer by
Jason Klug off Toros starter Jeff Phillips. However, Phillips got his groove on and shut down the Coyotes offense, allowing no hits over the final four innings.
The Toros scored four runs in the fifth off Coyotes freshman
Trevor Longfellow t(0-1) o take a 6-4 lead.