Box Score
COMPTON -- Cal State L.A.'s baseball team got back on track and posted its first win of the 2010 season Thursday in the John Scolinos Memorial Tournament.
Anthomy Lopez hurled five shutout innings and Mario Ramirez and Cliff Quick contributed home runs to lead the Golden Eagles to a 10-2 win over Cal State San Bernardino at the Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy. Cal State L.A. (1-1) collected 13 hits and four Golden Eagle pitchers limited the Coyotes to just five hits.
The game between California Collegiate Athletic Association opponents was a non-conference contest.
Matt Miraldi, Ramirez, Sam Wiley and Chris Matzner had two hits each to pace the Cal State L.A. attack. Ramirez scored three runs and Wiley scored twice. Quick and Jesus Campos drove in two runs each.
Lopez pitched well in his Cal State L.A. debut. He worked five strong innings and gave up four hits without allowing a run. He walked three and struck out three. Rory Young followed and gave up a two-run home run, but nothing else in two innings. Matt Stropoli worked a 1-2-3 eighth inning and Quick got out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth inning without allowing a run.
Ethan Chapman hit a two-run home run to account for the Cal State San Bernardino runs. The Coyotes (0-1) hurt their cause by committing four errors.
The Golden Eagles scored runs in each of the first three innings to jump out to a 4-0 lead. Wiley reached on an infield single in the first inning to drive in Miraldi with the first run of the game. In the second, Miraldi doubled in Matzner, who had doubled with one out, to make it 2-0. Cal State L.A. tacked on two more runs in the third on Quick's two-run home run that followed a double by Wiley.
The Golden Eagles struck for three more runs in the fifth to make it 7-0. Campos and Max Moya picked up RBI singles in the inning and Cal State L.A. also took advantage of a Cal State San Bernardino throwing error.
The Coyotes got their only runs in the seventh. James Kono drew a two-out walk and Chapman followed with a two-run home run to center.
Cal State L.A., though, got the two runs back in the bottom of the inning to take a 9-2 lead. Ramirez was hit by a pitch and Elliott Russell walked to start the rally. Quick reached when an apparent double-play ball was booted, allowing Ramirez to score. Campos delivered a sacrifice fly to complete the rally.
Ramirez belted a solo home run to left with two outs in the eighth inning to complete the scoring.
Cal State L.A. will return to action on Friday at 6 p.m. against tournament host Cal Poly Pomona, once again at the MLB Urban Youth Academy.
