CARSON – The Cal State Dominguez Hills baseball team got a balanced performance from both pitching and hitting to sweep Stanislaus State 7-5 in game one and 12-3 in the nightcap Saturday.
The Toros clinch the four-game series and will go for the sweep Sunday at noon.
Game 1 – CSUDH 7, STAN 5
Ray Diaz pitched perhaps the best performance of his collegiate career, going 7.1 innings allowing two earned runs on six hits and a walk while striking out eight. His strikeout mark is a season-high also.
He got help from
Dalton Duarte, who put five runs on the board in the first two innings with his bat. The designated hitter hit a two-run homer, his third in two games, in the first and then cleared the bases with a three-run double to left center the next inning.
The difference in the game came in the home half of the fifth.
Kevin Lugo and
Jordan James hit back-to-back lead-off singles and were brought in on
Evan Yeager's two-out knock to left.
Stan State did have a rally in the eighth by scoring four runs, three unearned.
Luke Laurita came in relief and stopped the bleeding with a foul out and a strikeout.
Ian Codina pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to earn his second save.
Game 2 – CSUDH 12, STAN 3
Although the Warriors struck first with a run in the second, the Toro bats came to life in their half and did all the damage in the second in which they scored nine.
Stephen Kish led off with a base hit and back-to-back walks by
Daryl Donerson and
Jordan James loaded the bases. Dominguez Hills then knocked in four runs on singles by
Trevor North,
Esteban Ortega, Duarte and Lugo. Kish drew a walk for his second plate appearance of the inning and setup three RBI off singles from James and Donerson to complete the 9-0 start.
Dominguez Hills added three more runs in the fifth, when Ortega hit a three-run shot to left center and complete a season-high five-RBI game.
Willie Traynor also had a stellar performance on the mound, going five innings allowing three runs on seven hits but did not walk a batter and struck out four.
Spencer Hereford went the rest of the way tossing two no-hit innings.