Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 LOS ANGELES – Cal State L.A.'s baseball team punched its ticket for the four-team California Collegiate Athletic Association Championship Tournament on Saturday and put itself in position for an interesting final week of conference play.

The Golden Eagles swept a doubleheader from Cal State Dominguez Hills at Reeder Field, taking the opener, 8-5 and then riding a pitching gem from Brandon Quintero to a 4-0 victory in the nightcap. The wins guaranteed the Golden Eagles of one of the four spots in the conference tourney on May 9-11 in Stockton.
 
Cal State L.A. (29-17, 26-10 CCAA) won the final three games of the series against Cal State Dominguez Hills (21-24, 17-19 CCAA) after dropping the opener on Thursday.
 
The two wins pushed Cal State L.A. into first place in the CCAA, one-half game ahead of Chico State and Cal State Monterey Bay. The Wildcats and Otters both have home games on Sunday that will even up the number of games played.
 
Cal State L.A. will conclude the regular season with a four-game series at Chico State beginning on Friday, while Cal State Monterey Bay will finish up next week with a home series against UC San Diego. Fourth-place Sonoma State is also in the mix and will finish up with a four-game series at Cal State Dominguez Hills.
 
The Golden Eagles completed the doubleheader sweep on Saturday thanks to an overpowering performance from Quintero, who improved to 8-4 on the season. He only allowed two hits, a slow chopper to short that David Steininger beat out for a single in the fourth and a bouncer up the middle by Fernando Gallegos with one out in the fifth.
 
He didn't walk a batter and struck out a season-high 11. He was backed by some solid defense, most notably by right fielder Manny Acosta, who leaped high at the right-field wall to pull down a drive by Chris Allen in the fifth.
 
Quintero retired the last eight batters he faced.
 
Taylor Johnson pitched well for Cal State Dominguez Hills and limited the Golden Eagles to a single run on a balk through four innings before Scott Masik hit a solo home run with two outs in the fifth. Cody Doyle followed up James Wharton being hit by a pitch with a towering home run to right in the sixth to make it 4-0.
  
In the opener, the Golden Eagles scored six times in the seventh to erase a 4-2 deficit and pick up an 8-5 victory. The key play came on a two-out, bases-loaded single by Doyle that resulted in four runs. Two runs scored on the single and when the throw from left field toward home plate was off line, pitcher Matt Montgomery tracked it down and fired back to third base trying to catch Wharton. The throw, though, sailed into left field and Wharton and Doyle both scored to give the Golden Eagles an 8-4 lead.
 
Run-scoring singles by Casey Ryan and Jeremy Weber opened the inning and got the Golden Eagles even at 4-4.
 
Cal State Dominguez Hills had 12 hits in the game, but stranded 14 runners on base. Gallegos had four hits, while Allen and Kevin Logan had two hits each.
 
Cedar Morgan pitched 2 1/3 innings of shutout relief to pick up the win for the Golden Eagles, while Ryan Cooperstone closed things out in the ninth.
 
Cal State L.A. honored its 13 seniors in ceremonies in between games of the doubleheader. The Golden Eagles honored Matt Clark, Samuel Arce, Jordan Castro, Tyler Christian, Ryan Cooperstone, Trevor Hopkins, Scott Masik, Cedar Morgan, Jordan Sechler, Jonathan Skura, Peter Straka, Jeremy Weber and James Wharton.
 
Cal State L.A. will conclude its regular season with the four-game series at Chico State beginning on Friday at 6 p.m.