Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 LOS ANGELES – Cal State L.A.'s baseball team endured a long day at Reeder Field on Sunday and a pair of disappointing losses to show for it.
 
The Golden Eagles scored 18 runs in the opener, only to be outscored, 21-18, by Dixie State and Cal State L.A. was blanked on six hits in the nightcap and lost, 6-0. Cal State L.A. (2-5) lost three of the four games against Dixie State (3-1).
 
Cal State L.A. had 18 runs and 21 hits in the opener, but still came up short. The Golden Eagles trailed 17-6, after 4 ½ innings but scored eight runs over the next two innings to draw close. Dixie State pounded out 24 hits in the opener, including seven doubles.
 
There was only one home run in the opener, a two-run blast by Tyler Christian in the bottom of the eighth that actually put an end to the scoring in the slugfest.
 
Jeremy Weber was 3-for-5 with two runs scored and four RBI for Cal State L.A., while Casey Ryan was 4-for-5 with four runs scored and three RBI. Christian was 2-for-4 with four RBI, Ryan Cooperstone and David Trejo both had three hits and scored two runs and James Wharton and Cody Doyle had two hits each.
 
Garrett Nash was 4-for-6 with three runs and three RBI for Dixie State, while Jordan Hanley was 3-for-7 with three runs and two RBI, Cedric Johnson was 3-for-4 and Mitch Manning, Kris Kaplan, Bryson Kenolio, D.J. Andrade and Yuto Kata had two hits each.
 
The only pitchers to emerge unscathed were Dixie State reliever Kort Christoffersen, who worked a scoreless ninth inning and Wharton, who retired the only batter he faced in the top of the ninth.
 
The nightcap was a tale of missed opportunities for the Golden Eagles, who left 12 runners on base. Doyle had two hits in the game. Cal State L.A.'s best chance came in the third when the Golden Eagles loaded the bases, but ended in a bit of bad fortune when Danny Matienzo ripped a drive that was hauled in by left fielder Jordan Hanley to end the threat.
 
Brandon Quintero pitched well for the Golden Eagles, allowing only four hits and four runs over 6 1/3 innings. He was touched for a solo home run by Johnson in the sixth, but didn't allow many hard-hit balls other than that. He gave up a two-out, two-run double in the second that fell into the right-centerfield gap and the Red Storm manufactured a run in the fourth on a chopper just inside the third-base bag by Kris Kaplan that went for a double and was followed by successful sacrifice bunts by Kenolio and D.J. Andrade.
 
Dixie State's Sam Friend kept the Golden Eagles off-balance for six innings, allowing only four hits – all singles – and walking five while striking out eight. Christoffersen worked around a pair of two-out hits in the seventh to end it.
 
Cal State L.A. will return to action on Friday in the opener of a four-game California Collegiate Athletic Association doubleheader with San Francisco State.