CARSON -- Cal State LA's baseball team showed it wasn't how it started a four-game California Collegiate Athletic Association series against Cal State Dominguez Hills that was important, it was how it finished it.
After a tough start to the series on Friday, the Golden Eagles completed a doubleheader sweep over the Toros 5-3 and 5-4 at Toro Field on Sunday to win the series, 3-1.
Cal State LA (7-12, 6-9 CCAA) showed tremendous resiliency after a lopsided loss on Friday. After dropping the series opener, 20-4, the Golden Eagles bounced back to win the final three games against Cal State Dominguez Hills (6-12, 5-11 CCAA) by scores of 15-10, 5-3 and 5-4..
The Golden Eagles got a pair of outstanding starts on Sunday from pitchers
Alec Daily and
Micah Hee. Daily went eight outstanding innings in the opener, allowing six hits and two runs and earning his first win of the season.
Dylan Suppan got out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the ninth for his first save of the season.
Hee, meanwhile, overcame a tough second inning and allowed eight hits and four runs over six innings of the seven-inning nightcap. He improved to 3-0.
Miguel Garcia worked a scoreless seventh inning to pick up his first save of the season.
Tyler Odekirk completed a big series and was 3-for-7 with four runs scored in the doubleheader at the top of the lineup.
Adam Gordon was 5-for-7 with a pair of runs scored.
The Golden Eagles backed Daily with three early runs in the opener and he took full advantage, blanking the Toros into the sixth inning. Cal State LA took a 1-0 lead in the second.
Anthony Moreno was hit by a pitch, Gordon singled and the runners moved up on a wild pitch.
Nic Sandoval's groundout scored Moreno for the game's first run.
Cal State LA made it 3-0 in the third.
Jordan Myrow doubled in
Spencer Sundahl for the first run of the inning and
Nate Alam's sacrifice fly drove in
Michael Tillman.
The Toros pushed across a run in the sixth to make it 3-1, but the Golden Eagles got one run in the seventh to regain a three-run lead. Odekirk walked, stole second, moved to third on a single by Gordon and scored on a double play grounder by Sundahl.
Cal State Dominguez Hills closed to within 4-2 with a run in the eighth, but the Golden Eagles scored on a run-scoring double by Sundahl to increase the lead to 5-2.
Suppan gave up hits to the first three batters he faced in the ninth, but gathered himself to limit the damage and got the final two outs with the bases loaded for the save.
Cal State LA jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the nightcap on bases-loaded walks to Tillman and Alam, but the Toros scored three times in the second to take a 3-2 lead. The Golden Eagles responded with a run in the fourth on a two-out double by Gordon, a walk to Sundahl and a run-scoring single by Daily to tie it and then took the lead for good with two runs in the fifth on a grounder that was misplayed by two Toro fielders to allow
Noe Garcia and Odekirk to score.
Cal State LA will return to action with the opener of a four-game series against Stanislaus State at Reeder Field on Friday beginning at 6 p.m.
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