Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

LOS ANGELES – Cal State L.A.'s baseball team survived a wild doubleheader opener on Saturday and then completed the sweep with a pitching gem.

 

The Golden Eagles prevailed, 14-13, in the opener and then got a seven-inning one-hitter from Gabriel Asakura in a 7-0 win over Cal State East Bay in the nightcap.

 

Asakura allowed only a first-inning single to Jared Berrier in a dominating outing in the nightcap. He walked one and struck out nine while improving to 3-0.

 

The opener was a crazy game that included 27 runs, 35 hits, 13 walks, and six hit batters. The game wasn't decided until the bottom of the ninth inning when the Golden Eagles, after loading the bases on walks, won the game when Chris Matzner was hit by a pitch.

 

Cal State L.A. (14-5, 9-2 CCAA) stretched its winning streak to five games and has taken the first three games of a four-game series against Cal State East Bay (4-14, 2-9 CCAA).

 

Cal State East Bay led for much of the opener after jumping out to an early 5-0 lead, then fell behind, and then got right back in it by scoring twice in the eighth and three times in the ninth.

 

Noe Flores went 5-for-5 in the opener with four RBI for Cal State L.A., while Manny Acosta was 2-for-4 with three RBI, Brian Compton was 2-for-3 with a home run, triple and three RBI and Cliff Quick went 3-for-6 with three runs scored. Brian Moon had a home run and scored twice.

 

Rex Blaylock was 3-for-4 with four runs scored for Cal State East Bay. Andrew Woolfe was 3-for-5 with three RBI, Charlie Sharrer was 3-for-5 with two runs scored and Berrier was 3-for-6 with two RBI.

 

The Pioneers took a 5-0 lead after their first two at bats and led until the bottom of the sixth when the Golden Eagles scored four times to take a 10-8 lead. A two-run double by Acosta broke an 8-8 tie.

 

The Golden Eagles made it 11-8 in the seventh on Compton's solo home run, his first of the season. Cal State East Bay, though, cut the deficit to 11-10 in the top of the eighth on a run-scoring single by Berrier and a sacrifice fly by Josh Rush.

 

Cal State L.A. got two runs back in the bottom of the eighth on a two-run triple by Compton and those runs came in handy when Cal State East Bay took advantage of a pair of errors, a passed ball and a bad-hop two-run single by Jake Davis to score three times in the ninth inning to tie it.

 

The Golden Eagles got walks to Chad Nacapoy, Flores and Acosta to load the bases with one out. After Joe Park lined out to short for the second out, Matzner was hit by a pitch to win the game.

 

Cal State L.A. struck for four runs in the first two innings of the nightcap to back Asakura's outstanding pitching. Moon picked up his second home run of the day and his third of the series in the first inning to stake the Golden Eagles to a 1-0 lead. Acosta singled in a run, another scored on a fielder's choice by Park and Acosta scored on a wild pitch in the second to make it 4-0.

 

The Golden Eagles added three more runs in the sixth. David Compton was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to force in one run, Acosta singled in a second run and Park drove in a run with a sacrifice fly.

 

Cal State L.A. will conclude the four-game series with Cal State East Bay with a single game on Sunday beginning at 11 a.m. at Reeder Field.