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LOS ANGELES – Cal State L.A.'s baseball team ended its 2011 season in impressive fashion with a pair of wins over Cal Poly Pomona.
The Golden Eagles got complete games from
Wally Goodline and
Gabriel Asakura and swept the Broncos by identical 5-2 scores. Cal State L.A. (27-23, 21-19 CCAA) completes its season in sixth place in the conference, just one game out of a conference tournament spot.
Cal State L.A. rode the strength of some early offense and outstanding pitching both wins. The Golden Eagles grabbed first-inning leads in both games and Goodline and Asakura were in control from start to finish.
Goodline worked the opener and gave up eight hits and two runs while walking one and striking out five. He didn't allow a run until the fifth inning and by then Cal State L.A. had a 4-0 lead. Cal Poly Pomona (30-19, 22-18 CCAA) got its second run in the eighth inning. Goodline (6-3) tossed his first complete game of the season.
Asakura had an easy time of it in the seven-inning nightcap after a two-run home run by
Brian Moon staked the Golden Eagles to quick 2-0 lead in the first inning. The Golden Eagles added three more in the second to take a 5-0 lead. Cal Poly Pomona got single runs in the fourth and seventh innings.
Asakura raised his record to 7-2. He was undefeated in games where Cal State L.A. scored runs – his only losses were in 1-0 and 3-0 decisions. He walked two and struck out four on Saturday.
Cal Poly Pomona was led by Travis Taijeron, who was a consistent threat throughout the series. He hit first-inning home runs in the first two games in Pomona and he was a combined 4-for-5 with three doubles in Saturday's doubleheader. The Golden Eagles, though, did a nice job of keeping runners off base in front of Taijeron and kept the Pomona slugger without a run batted in on Saturday.
The Golden Eagles, after losing by shutout in each of the first two games, struck quickly on Saturday with a pair of unearned runs in the first inning of the opener.
Manny Acosta singled up the middle with two outs to bring home both runs.
Cal State L.A. made it 4-0 with two more runs in the fourth, again doing its scoring with two outs.
Cliff Quick drove in one run with a single and the second run scored on an error.
After Cal Poly Pomona got one run back in the fifth on a groundout by Humberto Tovalin, the Golden Eagles boosted the lead back to 5-1 in the sixth on a single by
Michael Vinyard and a double by
Danny Matienzo.
Goodline surrendered a run in the eighth, but he was strong in the ninth, working around a one-out double by Stephen Gonzalez to complete the win.
Vinyard had three hits and scored two runs in the opener, while Acosta was 2-for-4 with two RBI and Matienzo was 2-for-4 with one RBI and one run scored.
Moon, making his first appearance in the series after being hurt last week, slugged a two-run home run to get the Golden Eagles off and running in the nightcap. The Golden Eagles stretched the lead to 5-0 in the second.
Jordan Castro singled in one run, Quick singled in a second run and the third scored on an error.
Cal Poly Pomona got its runs in the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Chris Miller and in the seventh on a solo home run by Tyson Edwards. Vinyard made an outstanding catch in left field to end the game.
Castro and Quick had two hits each in the nightcap for the Golden Eagles.
