LA JOLLA – The Cal State Dominguez Hills baseball team dropped a pair of 7-4 scores to No. 8 UC San Diego to close out the 2019 season. The Toros close out the year 16-29 overall and 15-28 in the CCAA.
GAME 1: UCSD 7, CSUDH 4
TOP PERFORMERS
Pierson Loska – 1-for-4, 2-run HR
Jose Jimenez – 2-for-5, 3B, RBI, 2 R
Jeremy Ciolek – 2-for-3, 2B, RBI
WHAT HAPPENED?
- Trailing 1-0 since the first inning, the Toros did grab their only lead in the game in the third.
Kai Gomez singled to center and scored all the way from first on Jimenez's triple to right center. Loska followed with a two-run jack to left, his team-leading 15
th of the year and first in 13 games.
- The lead was brief as the Tritons responded in their half of the third, recording four straight hits including a double and a two-run home run to score four and build a 7-4 lead.
- Home runs eventually hurt the Toros as the Tritons hit solo shots in the fifth and eighth innings.
- Dominguez Hills got one more run in the fifth. Jimenez lead off with a single and two wild pitches moved him to third. Ciolek brought the run in with a single.
- Toro starter
Humberto Chiquito lasted 2.1 innings after giving up five runs on seven hits and a walk.
GAME 2: UCSD 7, CSUDH 4
TOP PERFORMERS
Eduardo Frayre-Cerda – 1-for-3, HR
Angel Estrada – 1-for-3, 3B
WHAT HAPPENED?
- The Tritons did all the damage in the first three innings, scoring one in the first, two in the second and three in third to take a 6-0 lead.
- The Toros did make an attempt to come back in the late innings. Starting in the fifth inning with
Kaelan Crisosto on first and two out, Estrada scored in the first run with a triple to right and found his way home on Gomez's single. Frayre-Cerda, who came into the game as a pinch hitter in the fourth, led the sixth inning with a home run to left. After
Domenic Colacchio was hit by the pitch, he moved to second on a wild pitch, to third on a ground out and scored on
Grant Decatrel's base hit to make it a two-run deficit.
- Making his final start,
Ian Codina struck out five batters and walked one hitter in five innings of work. He did give up four earned runs in his outing.
Connor Dreyer pitched the sixth inning giving up one run on a hit and a walk.