LA JOLLA -- Any hope that Cal State San Bernardino's baseball team might rally for a berth in the California Collegiate Athletic Association championship tournament next month was snuffed out  Saturday in a doubleheader sweep of the Coyotes by host UC San Diego Saturday, 10-4 and 7-4.
    The twin losses left the Coyotes with a 19-23 overall record and a 13-18 conference record keeping them mired in eighth place in the conference with only four games remaining next week against lowly San Francisco State at Fiscalini Field.
    The Tritons, meanwhile, took three of four games in the series to join Sonoma State as the first two teams to clinch a berth in the conference tournament to be played at Palm Springs Stadium. UCSD, ranked No. 6 in the nation and No. 1 in the West Region is now 30-11 overall and 24-8 in the CCAA, leading Sonoma State (22-10) by two games with four to play.
    CSUSB has now lost seven of its last eight conference games.
    The Coyotes pounded out 21 hits in the two games at UCSD but had little to show for it.
    The Tritons took control of game one with six runs in the first three innings off freshman pitcher Aaron Brooks with five runs coming in the third on two-run doubles by Matt Cantele and Tim Mort.
    UCSD led 8-1 when the Coyotes got three runs in the eighth on a two-run homer by Jesus Beltran and a run-scoring single by Chris Olsen, to make it 8-4 but the Tritons added two runs in their half of the eighth on a two-run homer by Cantele to close out the scoring. 
    Johnnie Haas was 3-for-5 and Beltran was 2-for-5 with three RBI and two runs scored. Freshman Darren Dworak was 2-for-3 in a 12-hit Coyote attack against winning pitcher Kirby St. John (1-2). The Tritons got 17 hits off Brooks (1-3) and reliever Jorge Dryjanski.
    In game two, the Coyotes started out in a 2-0 hole as Evan Kehoe doubled in two runs off CSUSB starter and loser Andrew Schile (0-2) in the bottom of the first. CSUSB got a run back in the third on a triple by Kyle Davis and Brent Planck's run-scoring groundout. 
    UCSD went up 5-1 in the fifth on a three-run homer by Brandon Gregorich.
    The Coyotes scored twice in the sixth to make it 5-3 on a two-run homer by Julio Torres off reliever Guido Knudson, who had just come in in relief to start the inning, taking over for winning pitcher Trevor Decker (6-2).
    The Tritons padded their lead to 7-3 on an RBI double by Vance Albitz and a wild pitch in the bottom of the sixth. CSUSB got its final run in the top of the seventh via a solo home run by senior Andrew Tapia to lead off the inning.
    Davis and Dworak each had two hits in the game for the Coyotes.