Baseball | 4/9/2016 8:03:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SEASIDE (April 9, 2016) -- Junior LHP Don Sullivan proved a steady performance, allowing just four hits in eight innings as CSUSB secured a doubleheader split in its 5-1 win over No. 15 Cal State Monterey Bay in CCAA baseball Saturday afternoon.

The Coyotes, who lost the opener 4-1, take their 16-18 overall record and 11-11 CCAA slate into Sunday's finale. CSUMB is 23-9, 12-8.

Game 1: CSU Monterey Bay 4, Coyotes 1
The Coyotes were stymied by Otters starter Gabe Katich as CSUSB did not earn its first hit until Brian Lockey came off the bench to lead off the seventh and delivered a double to right center.

The Otters grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first on an unearned run off Coyotes starter Tyler Wells. They padded the lead in the third when Justin Flores hit a three-run home run off Wells -- just the second off the junior right-hander this season.

Damion Edmonds led off the eighth with a triple and put the Coyotes on the scoreboard on Ryan Rich's run-scoring ground out to second.

Wells had nine strikeouts in seven innings and gave up only four hits. After Flores' homer, he retired the next nine Otters in order with four k's in that stretch.

Grant Buchanan and Dylan Lohman each singled for the Coyotes.

Game 2: Coyotes 5, Otters 1
Sullivan improved to 5-3 and benefited early, thanks to Buchanan's single to right in the first that scored William Ouellette, who reached on a fielder's choice.

Then in the second, the Coyotes scored three runs -- all earned -- on three hits for a commanding 4-0 lead.

Lohman got things going on a double to left. Jordan Simon then walked, and Lockey came through with a run-scoring single up the middle. Simon then scored on a wild pitch,and Rich earned an RBI on a sac bunt that brought in Lockey.

The Coyotes were shutdown over the next five innings as CSUMB retired 15 straight batters through the seventh.

Buchanan gave CSUSB a 5-1 lead on an eighth-inning double down the right-field line that scored Rich, who reached on a fielder's choice.

After Ruben Gonzalez scored in the third, not one Otter reached past first the remainder of the game.

Buchanan had two hits

All four Otters' hits were singles.