SAN MARCOS -- Cal State LA's baseball team found the going tough for a second straight day at Cal State San Marcos.

The Golden Eagles were unable to contain the Cougars' prolific offense and dropped the second game of a four-game California Collegiate Athletic Association series, 12=4, at Cougar Field. Cal State LA (15-20, 14-17 CCAA) took a 3-2 lead in the fourth inning, but Cal State San Marcos (18-22, 14-20 CCAA) regained the lead with four runs in the fifth and put the game away with six runs in its final two at bats.

Nate Alam was 2-for-4 with two runs and one RBI for the Golden Eagles, while Nic Sandoval had a pair of RBI. Noe Garcia was 2-for-4 with one RBI.

Saxon Andross, who was coming off one of his best starts of the season, went seven innings on Saturday and gave up 12 hits and eight runs. He walked two and struck out five. Angel Lerma gave up four runs in his one inning of work.

The Golden Eagles erased a 2-0 deficit in the fourth inning after bunching together five hits. Alec Daily started the rally with a one-out single and Jordan Peabody followed with a two-out single. Alam drove in the first run with a single and Garcia's run-scoring single tied the game at 2-2. Sandoval's run-scoring single gave the Golden Eagles a 3-2 lead.

Cal State San Marcos, though, got a bases-clearing double from Grant Buck to spark a four-run fifth-inning rally to make it 6-3.

Cal State LA cut the deficit to 6-4 in the sixth on a run-scoring fielder's choice by Sandoval that drove in Alam, but the Golden Eagles didn't score again after that and the Cougars tacked on two runs in the seventh and four in the eighth to put the game away.

The series will conclude on Sunday with a doubleheader at Reeder Field beginning at 1 p.m.