Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

LOS ANGELES – Cal State L.A.'s baseball team completed its best California Collegiate Athletic Association series of the season with a second straight doubleheader sweep of Sonoma State.
 
The Golden Eagles got two more outstanding starts from Justin Harr and Gabriel Asakura, solid relief pitching and timely hitting to sweep the Seawolves, 3-2 and 9-1 Sunday at Reeder Field. Cal State L.A. (19-15, 15-13 CCAA) is now just one game out of third place in the conference. Sonoma State (18-18, 16-12 CCAA) is in a third-place tie with Chico State.
 
Harr set the tone by going six strong innings in the opener. He allowed just six hits and one earned run while walking four and striking out two. Jacob Valenzuela pitched a scoreless seventh inning, Sergio Luna worked a scoreless eighth inning and Daniel Duran finished up with a scoreless ninth inning for his second save of the season.
 
Cal State L.A. scored all three of its runs in the first inning. Nick Rodarte delivered a two-run single to give the Golden Eagles a 2-1 lead and Cliff Quick reached on an error that scored James Wharton.
 
Sonoma State starter Joshua Nervis was brilliant the rest of the way. He went eight innings and gave up just six hits. He walked six and struck out four.
 
There were five double plays turned in the opener and the teams combined to strand 14 runners.

Asakura, the CCAA's Co-Pitcher of the Year last season, took center stage in the nightcap, blanking the Seawolves on just two hits through the first six innings. He walked four and struck out seven.
 
The game was tight early and Cal State L.A. took a 1-0 lead in the third inning when Jeremy Weber tripled and scored on a single by Scott Masik.
 
The Golden Eagles then added three more runs in the fourth to give Asakura some breathing room. Wharton walked, took second on a groundout and beat a throw to third on a grounder hit by Quick. Manny Acosta was hit by a pitch to load the bases and Brian Compton and Weber followed with run-scoring singles. Masik drove in another run with a groundout.
 
Masik turned in the defensive play of the game in the fifth, snaring a ball hit by Jackson Stogner just in front of the right-field fence and rifling a throw to first to get the runner and complete a double play.
 
Cal State L.A. extended its lead to 6-0 in the bottom of the inning on a run-scoring single by Acosta and a wild pitch that scored Quick.
 
The Golden Eagles made it 9-0 in the sixth. Masik doubled and scored on a single by Wharton. Quick and Brian Compton added run-scoring singles later in the inning.
 
Sonoma State scored its only run on a two-out single by Stogner.
 
Cal State L.A. will not play its re-scheduled doubleheader against Cal State East Bay on Monday because the Pioneers are finishing up a four-game series at Cal State San Bernardino. Cal State L.A. will now return to action with the opener of a four-game series against Cal Poly Pomona on Friday at 6 p.m. at Reeder Field.