LOS ANGELES – The Cal State Dominguez Hills baseball team rallied from a four-run deficit since the first inning, but crosstown rival Cal State LA walked off in the ninth to take the series opener 6-5 at Reeder Field Friday evening, ending the Toros' impressive five-game win streak.
 
It was the second time in three games that the Toros had to come back from a large deficit in the first inning. After the Golden Eagles (10-9, 5-4 CCAA) struck first with their four-run first inning off right-hander Dylan Steen, the Toros got one of those runs back on a bases-loaded walk thanks to one of the conference's top walkers in Pierson Loska. Unfortunately, that was the only run the Toros could produce in that inning.
 
Although LA got their four-run lead back with an unearned run in the fifth, the Toros began a rally that started in the sixth. Loska led off with a double down the left field line and eventually scored on Alberto Luevano's one-out single to first.
 
One inning later, the Toros would tie the game with only one out to work with. Scott Ogrin and Loska hit back-to-back doubles to score in the first run, Anthony Accordino drew a walk to setup back-to-back RBI singles to tie the game at 5-5.
 
The Toros went down quietly in the next two innings. LA got its winning run in when a walk and a hit-by-pitch setup a runner in scoring position and was knocked in on a single to left.
 
Steen went on to throw six innings, striking out six while giving up four earned runs on nine hits and a walk.
 
Despite the double being his only hit of the game, Ogrin, the reigning CCAA and National Collegiate Baseball Writer's Association's West Region Players of the Week, saw his impressive streak of four straight games with a home run come to an end.
 
The two crosstown rivals meet again for the 9/7-inning doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.