Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

CHICO -- Cal State L.A.'s baseball team needed a big pitching performance after dropping the opener of a doubleheader Saturday at Chico State and Yuichiro Fujiwara and John Dunn delivered.

The Cal State L.A. duo limited a hard-hitting Chico State lineup to only one run over seven innings in the nightcap and the Golden Eagles posted a 3-1 win at Nettleton Stadium to earn a split of a California Collegiate Athletic Association doubleheader.

Cal State L.A. (14-8, 7-4 CCAA) had dropped the opener, 10-3, to Chico State. The Wildcats (11-8, 7-4 CCAA) collected 17 hits in the first game and broke the game open with an eight-run fifth-inning.

Fujiwara and Dunn made sure there wouldn't be a sweep for the home team. Fujiwara (3-1) worked the first 5 1/3 innings and gave up one run on eight hits. He walked only two and struck out six. Dunn, meanwhile, surrendered two hits over the final 1 2/3 innings to pick up his fourth save.

Fujiwara allowed only a run in the second inning that gave the Wildcats an early 1-0 lead. Deven Braden's two-out single drove in Bret Ringer.

The Golden Eagles came back to take the lead for good with a pair of runs in the fourth inning. Brendan McQuaid walked to start the inning and moved to second on a wild pitch. After Mario Ramirez walked, Travis Tartamella singled in McQuaid to tie the game. Eric Quintero then delivered a sacrifice fly to give Cal State L.A. a 2-1 lead.

The Golden Eagles made it 3-1 in the fifth inning when Matt Miraldi singled to left and then moved all the way to third after a throwing error by pitcher Joel Garcia. McQuaid then hit a sacrifice fly to score Miraldi and give Cal State L.A. a two-run lead.

Fujiwara stranded a pair of runners in the fifth inning and then left in the sixth inning after allowing a walk and a single with one out. Dunn came on and got pinch hitter Eric Stephens on strikes and got Braden to hit into a fielder's choice to end the inning.

Dunn then gave up a single to Nick Victor and a double to Josh Meagher with one out, but he got Ringer to line out to McQuaid at shortstop and he doubled up pinch runner Bryan Willson at second to end the game.

The opener was a bit rougher for the Golden Eagles. Cal State L.A. was buried under an eight-run fifth inning that staked Chico State to a 10-0 lead. The Golden Eagles didn't score until putting up three runs in the eighth. Quintero singled in Max Moya for the first run and Miraldi followed with a two-run home run, his fourth homer of the season.

Brian Dearth pitched three scoreless innings in relief of starter John Mitchell and Travis McBride retired the Wildcats in order in his one inning of work.