CARSON – The Cal State Dominguez Hills baseball team got itself on the win column in California Collegiate Athletic Association play Saturday as the Toros six runs in the middle innings proving to be enough to hold off a reeling Cal State San Marcos 7-5 at Toro Field.
 
The Toros (2-5, 1-5 CCAA) get even with the Cougars (8-4, 4-2 CCAA) as the four-game series shifts to San Marcos for the doubleheader Sunday beginning at 11 a.m.
 
TOP PERFORMERS
Pierson Loska – 3-for-4, 3-run home run
Domenic Colacchio – 2-for-3, 2 RBI
Humberto Chiquito – WP, 6 IP, 2 SO
 
WHAT HAPPENED?
- The Toros got on the board first in the second inning when Jeremy Ciolek doubled down the left field line and scored on Colacchio's base hit to center.
- Although the Toros scored two runs in the fourth, the difference in the game came in the fifth, when Loska belted a three-run jack, his third homer in two days, to give Dominguez Hills a 7-2 lead.
- Chiquito proved to be a key contributor to the Toros win, allowing only two runs in six innings of work.
- The bullpen took over in the sixth with Ian Codina tossing a shutout inning. Although the combination of Spencer Hereford and Conner Dreyer each conceded a run in the eighth and ninth inning, respectively, it was enough to hold the Cougars from making a comeback. Dreyer got out of the threat with runners at the corners.