TURLOCK -- Senior right-hander
Cheyne Hann shut out Cal State Stanislaus on two hits and his teammates backed him up with 11 runs on 12 hits as Cal State San Bernardino thrashed Cal State Stanislaus 11-0, Saturday in the first game of their CCAA baseball doubleheader.
However, the Warriors came back to rock CSUSB starter Chris Borowski for five runs in the first inning and took a 5-1 decision in the nightcap. The teams wind up their four-game series at noon on Sunday.
The split gives the Coyotes a 14-18 record overall and 5-14 CCAA mark while the Warriors are now 24-9 overall, 16-3 in the conference.
In the opener, the Coyotes pounced on Warriors' ace Marquis Fleming (6-3) for eight runs in five-plus innings and continued to pound away against two Stanislaus relievers while Hann (4-1) was masterful on the mound, striking out six batters and walking none. He faced 31 batters, four over the minimum.
CSUSB defenders committed two errors behind him but neither one caused any damage.
Mike Minjares,
Johnnie Haas,
Jason Klug and
Jesus Beltran each had two hits on the day with all but Haas driving in two runs each in the one-sided contest.
Beltran gave CSUSB a 1-0 lead in the second with his first home run of the season and gave the Coyotes a 2-0 lead in the fourth on a sacrifice fly that allowed Haas to score from third.
The Coyotes made it 4-0 in the fifth as
Justin Watson reached base on an error, advanced on a wild pitch and scored on
Brent Planck's single. Mike Minjares, who was hit by a pitch earlier, then scored on another Warriors error.
CSUSB added four more runs in the sixth off Fleming on RBI singles by
Drew Valenzuela and Watson followed by a one-out single by Minjares that scored two runners.
Klug belted his sixth home run of the season in the seventh off reliever Jeff Harter. The Coyotes added two more runs in the eighth on a sac fly by Planck and an RBI single by Klug.
Stanislaus' Kyle Loretelli singled in the second but was caught stealing. David Contreras got the other hit off Hann in the sixth after Dante Palacios was hit by a pitch with two out, but Hann struck out Dennis Wolfe to shut the door.
In game two, a seven-inning affair, Stanislaus got all the runs it needed with five in the first off Borowski (1-1). The sophomore right-hander lasted only two-thirds of an inning.
David Martin came out of the bullpen to shut down the Warriors on one hit while striking out three.
However, the Warriors' Eric Federico (3-2) never let CSUSB into the game, limiting the Coyotes to just three hits while striking out eight and walking one. Watson, Haas and
Chris LeFay had the only hits off Federico and LeFay drove in the Coyotes' only run of the game in the fourth.