CARSON – The Cal State Dominguez Hills baseball team suffered a pair of losses to Cal Poly Pomona to open the California Collegiate Athletic Association season Saturday. The Toros were shut out 6-0 in game one and were the victim of the Broncos' four-run eighth-inning rally in an 8-6 game-two defeat.
The series shifts over to Toro Field for Dominguez Hills' home opener Sunday. It will be the traditional 9/7-inning doubleheader format beginning at 11 a.m.
GAME 1: CPP 6, CSUDH 0
TOP PERFORMERS
Tristan Garnett – LP, 4.2 IP, 3 SO, 2 BB, 3 ER
Jeremy Ciolek – 2-for-2
Aaron Greenfield – 1-for-3
WHAT HAPPENED?
- Garnett was a little shaky in the first inning but got out of it allowing just the one run. He settled down and tossed shutout frames until the fifth, where he gave up two before handing the ball over to the bullpen.
- On the other side, the bats struggled to figure out senior right-hander Tim Holdgrafer. The Broncos ace tossed perfect innings until the sixth, when Greenfield beat out a short grounder to short.
- The Toros had a golden opportunity to get on the board in the sixth with the bases loaded but couldn't produce anything out of it.
GAME 2: CPP 8, CSUDH 6
TOP PERFORMERS
Humberto Chiquito – ND, 5.1 IP, 3 SO, 2 BB, 7 H
Joe Canepa – 2-for-3, 2 2B, RBI, 2 R
Aaron Greenfield – 2-for-4, 2B
Jeremy Ciolek – 2-for-2, RBI
WHAT HAPPENED?
- Game two was very much the opposite for Dominguez Hills. They got on the board first in the first in the second inning. Canepa doubled to lead off and
Pierson Loska and Ciolek followed with back-to-back singles to score in the game's first run. Loska would give the Toros a 2-0 by scoring on
Bailey Bordas' groundout.
- The third inning turned out to be the best for the Toros, in which they would plate in four more runs to take a 6-0 lead. Canepa would double again to score in
Angel Estrada and Loska followed with a two-run single to right. Bordas got another run in only this time using a base hit.
- CPP would get two runs on solo homers in the third and fourth innings, but trailing by two in the eighth, the erased that deficit with four runs on three hits, highlighted by a three-run double.
Ian Codina was tagged for the loss after loading the bases with two out and giving up that two-bagger.