CARSON – The Cal State Dominguez Hills baseball team wrapped up the 2018 season with an 8-6 and 13-8 doubleheader defeat to Cal Poly Pomona on Senior Day Saturday.
 
The Toros finish the 2018 campaign under fourth-year head coach Tyler Wright 18-32 overall and 15-29 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). Prior to first pitch, the Toros celebrated the Class of 2018 in Cy Scott, Luke Laurita, Trevor North, Esteban Ortega, Daryl Donerson, Timmy Shiba, Joe Mercado, Jacob Musial, Nick Suniga, Joshua Gogue and Evan Yeager.
 
Dalton Duarte highlighted the day with a home run in each game to end the regular-season leading the CCAA with 16, besting Cal State Monterey Bay's Hayden Duer by two.
 
Game 1 – CPP 8, CSUDH 6
The Toros had to rally from a 4-0 deficit after six innings. The Broncos' lead got sliced in half in the home half of that inning when Duarte belted the first of his two homers into the parking lot in right field.

Even though the Broncos added three more runs, one unearned, in the seventh to take a 7-2 lead, the Toros did find a way to get themselves back into the game in the eighth. Ortega and Duarte led off with singles and Kevin Lugo drew a walk to load the bases. The runs started to pile in when Stephen Kish and Jordan James hit back-to-back RBI singles and consecutive sacrifice flies from Donerson and North made it a 7-6 score.
 
The Broncos got an insurance run in the ninth off a leadoff walk followed by a squeeze play later.
 
Shiba got the first start of his Toro career, going 2.1 innings allowing three runs on as many hits and a walk. He was followed by fellow seniors Musial, Suniga and Mercado.
 
On the other side, Dylan Francis cruised through seven innings allowing one earned run on five hits and striking out nine.
 
Game 2 – CPP 13, CSUDH 8
The Broncos wasted no time going up against Rigo Fernandez, who got only one out in the first inning before his day came to an end with eight earned runs on three hits and five walks. The Broncos did serious damage when leadoff man Matt Manskar clobbered a grand slam his second trip through the lineup.
 
Duarte would hit his second homer of the day into right center for the Toros' lone run in the inning.
 
Trailing 13-4 in the final inning, the Toros made it interesting as they went through the entire lineup to score four runs. Musial, who came in as a defensive sub to play third base, led off reaching on an error and made his way around the bases using back-to-back singles from James and pinch-hitter Jeremy Ciolek. Donerson kept the momentum going with an RBI single to left and Kai Gomez knocked in a run in in exchange for an out. Kish drew a bases-loaded walk to plate the fourth run.
 
Both teams totaled 29 hits.