Box Score LOS ANGELES – Cal State L.A.'s baseball team had a quiet showing in its California Collegiate Athletic Association opener against Sonoma State on Friday.

The Golden Eagles managed only six hits and were blanked by the Seawolves, 3-0, at Reeder Field. Cal State L.A. (2-5, 0-1 CCAA) got some strong pitching from Brandon Quintero, Greg Humbert and Reed Reznicek, but the Golden Eagles were unable to generate any offense against three Sonoma State pitchers.

Quintero kept the Golden Eagles with six shutout innings and probably deserved a better fate in an unfortunate seventh inning. What looked like a routine fly ball to right-center kept carrying and carrying before finally hitting the wall for a double. That put runners on second and third and both runs were cashed in on a ground ball that bounced up the middle and through.

Humbert allowed two hits and one run over two innings of work after getting the Golden Eagles out of the seventh inning and Reed Reznicek got the final two outs.

Quintero took the hard-luck loss and fell to 1-2. He allowed six hits and two runs in 6 1/3 innings while walking two and striking out six.

Sonoma State (2-1, 1-0 CCAA) got outstanding pitching from its starter, George Asmus, who allowed only four hits in six innings to pick up his first win of the season. Stevan Zaharias pitched two scoreless innings and worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth and Ricky Clark struck out the side in the ninth for his first save.

Manny Acosta was 3-for-4 with a double for the Golden Eagles, while Cody Doyle was 2-for-4. Casey Ryan had the other hit, a leadoff double in the first inning.

The Golden Eagles turned four double plays in the game. Cal State L.A. stranded eight baserunners, while Sonoma State left on six.

Quintero and Asmus were locked in a scoreless battle through six innings. The Golden Eagles got the leadoff batter on in five of the first six innings, including doubles from Ryan in the first and Acosta in the fifth. Sonoma State got a leadoff double from Wesley Wallace in the fifth and got him to third with no one out on a wild pitch, but Quintero got out of trouble by retiring the next three batters, two of them by strikeout.

Acosta led off the Cal State L.A. fifth with a double and moved to third on a sacrifice by Drew Vanisi. Asmus, though, got a strikeout and a line drive to left to get out of the inning.

Sonoma State finally broke through in the seventh. Devin Alexander led off with a single and moved to third on Wallace's double. Quintero got a strikeout before pinch hitter Brennan Fulkerson ground a 3-2 pitch up the middle to drive in the first two runs of the game.

The Golden Eagles loaded the bases in their half of the seventh on a two-out single by Acosta, a walk to Vanisi and when Jesus Cuevas was hit by a pitch. Steven Luna, though, hit a one-hopper that was gloved nicely on the backhand by shortstop Jourdan Weiks for the inning-ending fielder's choice.

Sonoma State got its final run in the ninth on a double by Wallace and a sacrifice fly by Shawn Walters.

The Golden Eagles will continue the series with the Seawolves with a doubleheader on Saturday at Reeder Field beginning at 11 a.m.