Wardour Leads Toros to 4-2 Game One Win Over CS Stanislaus, Before Warriors Take 7-2 Nightcap

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CARSON -- Junior righty Sean Wardour threw 8.2 innings and scattered nine hits en route to a gutty 4-2 game one win over visiting Cal State Stanislaus, throwing 118 pitches while fanning five against just two walks. The visitors, however, regrouped to take a 7-2 win in the nightcap.

With the split, CSUDH moves to 6-16, 4-14 CCAA, while the Warriors go to 10-10, 7-7 CCAA.

In the opener, the visitors notched an early 2-0 lead in the first three innings courtesy of two Toro errors in the first and a suicide squeeze in the third, before CSUDH found its offense in the bottom of the fifth.

In the inning, Carlos Avila made the Warriors pay after starter Byron Lemon intentionally walked Matthew Young with runners on second and third by drilling a 3-2 offering off the second baseman's glove to tie the game at two.

The Toros took the lead for good in the seventh off losing pitcheer Keith McDaniels after Drew Rodela knocked in Matt Akiyama, who singled to start the inning, before adding an insurance run in the eighth on an Akiyama RBI double to right field, his third hit of the game.

Wardour took care of most of the rest, getting two outs in the ninth before reliever Jonathan Boersma registered his first save of the year, inducing a fielder's choice for the last out of the game.

In game two, the Warriors used the long ball to take an early 3-0 lead after Jordan Long belted the first pitch he saw from Toro starter Devon Ramirez over the left field fence with two on, using another 3-run bomb in the fourth courtesy of Eli Davis to take a commanding 7-1 lead.

CSUDH added a run in the bottom of the seventh off reliever Anthony Gotelli, who came in for starter Rafael Vasquez in the sixth inning after Vasquez looked to strain himself on a pitch to Young, the first batter he faced in the frame, but Gotelli finished with a strike out to salvage today's split.

The two teams go at it again tomorrow for two 9-inning contests, with first pitch of game one set for 12 noon.

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