ROHNERT PARK -- Sonoma State continued its mastery of opponents at Seawolf Field Saturday, taking a CCAA doubleheader from Cal State San Bernardino by scores of 7-4 and 4-1.
        The Seawolves, ranked No. 5 in the West Region and No. 18 in the nation, are now 29-11 overall and 21-10 in the CCAA as they give chase to UC San Diego in the race for the regular season conference title. SSU is now 17-2 at home this season.
        The Coyotes dropped to 18-19 overall and 12-14 in the CCAA. The two teams will play a single game on Sunday to conclude the series.
        The sweep dropped CSUSB back into eighth place in the 10-team conference, four games behind fourth-place Dominguez Hills with eight games remaining. Only the top four advance to the CCAA championship tournament.
        In game one, the two teams were knotted at 4-4 after the Coyotes scored a run in the top of the seventh as Jordan Lowe doubled to lead off the inning, advanced to third on a sacrifice by Chris Olsen and scored on Darren Dworak's ground out to shortstop.
       Earlier in the game, Julio Torres hit his third homer of the season and Jesus Beltran hit his sixth home run of the season, both with nobody on for the Coyotes.
       Sonoma reached CSUSB reliever Bryan W. Hart for three runs in the bottom of the seventh, all coming on Kyle Jones' sixth-homer of the season with two aboard. Hart (3-3) took the loss while Taylor Lewis (6-1) the third Seawolves pitcher, got the win by pitching 2.1 innings of hitless relief to finish the game.
       CSUSB managed just five hits in the contest.
       In the nightcap, Lowe accounted for the only Coyotes run of the game with a solo homer in the fourth, his fourth of the season.
       Morgan Rodriguez (5-0) went six innings, giving up four hits and striking out four to get the win for Sonoma State with Brian Flint picking up his sixth save of the season with one inning of work, striking out two of the three batters he faced in the seventh.
       Junior right-hander Andrew Schile (0-1) made his first start of the season for CSUSB, going 5.1 innings, allowing four runs on five hits and striking out three. Schile was relieved by Ian O'Connor with the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth and O'Connor walked in a run and yielded a two-run single to Ryan Averkieff to make it 4-1 SSU.
        The Coyotes return home to face CCAA leader UC San Diego at 3 p.m. on Thursday, the first of a four-game series with the Tritons, ranked No. 6 in the nation and No. 1 in the West Region. The game will be played at Arrowhead Credit Union Park.