LOS ANGELES -- Cal State LA's baseball team showed some commendable resiliency on Friday, but ultimately had to settle for a doubleheader split with Northwest Nazarene.

The Golden Eagles bounced back from their lopsided defeat on Thursday with a big win of their own in Friday's opener, 16-3, but the Nighthawks came back to take the nightcap, 10-4, at Reeder Field. Cal State LA (5-3) got a second impressive start from Alejandro Huezo and home runs from Alberto Prado, Omar Gonzalez and Jonathan Manuel in the opener, but committed three costly errors in the nightcap to settle for the split.

Huezo, who pitched five hitless innings in his first start of the season, allowed six hits and two earned runs over five innings in his second start against the hot-hitting Northwest Nazarene lineup. He didn't walk a batter and struck out seven. Ismael Quintero, the 2025 California Collegiate Athletic Association Freshman of the Year, tossed four shutout innings to pick up the save. He scattered three hits and struck out two. After the Golden Eagles had allowed 19 walks in Thursday's series opener, Huezo and Quintero didn't issue a walk in nine clean innings on Friday.

Manuel had a huge game at the plate, going 5-for-6 with three runs scored and three RBI, while Cesar Chavez was 4-for-4 with four runs scored and one RBI. Prado was 2-for-4 with four RBI, Carson Panarisi went 2-for-4 with one run scored and two RBI and Gonzalez had a booming two-run home run for the Golden Eagles.

The Golden Eagles erased a 1-0 deficit with a three-run second inning and extended the lead to 4-1 with a run-scoring double from Panarisi in the third. Gonzalez belted a two-run home run in the fourth and Manuel and Ethan Gonzalez had RBI singles later in the inning to stretch the lead to 8-1.

After the Nighthawks (5-4) scored twice in the fifth, Prado and Chavez had run-scoring singles in the fifth before Prado delivered a three-run home run in the sixth. Manuel followed with a two-run home run in the seventh.

In the nightcap, Jake Spence deserved a better fate as he was charged with seven runs - all unearned - in two-plus innings of work. Jared Robles pitched five strong innings of relief and allowed only two earned runs.

Cal State LA got a two-run single from Manuel in the first inning to take a 2-0 lead, but the Nighthawks scored five times after two were out in the second to take the lead for good. Prado had a run-scoring double in the second and Panarisi doubled in Chavez in the fifth to get the Golden Eagles to within 7-4, but Northwest Nazarene scored once in the sixth and twice in the seventh to close things out.

The series will conclude on Saturday with a single game beginning at noon.