POMONA -- Cal State Dominguez Hills held a comfortable 7-0 lead after 3.5 innings of play, but host Cal Poly Pomona used the long ball to score nine unanswered runs en route to a 9-7 win over the Toros to close the four-game league series and win the series, three games to one.

Deegan Grgas led the offense with three hits and two RBI, with Jarrett Segura and Angel Cortez punching two hits apiece in the loss that drops the Toros to 13-16 overall and 5-11 in the CCAA.

The Toro offense started hot, plating seven runs in the first three innings of play.

Cortez began the scoring with an RBI single, and was followed by RBI knocks by Grgas and Julio Camarena for a 4-0 lead after 2.0 innings.

One inning later, a Segura RBI single, a Cortez RBI triple and Grgas RBI base hit to right gave the Toros a commanding 7-0 lead as starter Zachary Lopez held the Broncos to just one hit in their first three at-bats.

In the fourth inning, however, it all went south for the Toros as the Broncos plated five runs on five hits to cut into CSUDH's lead.  

Both staffs kept the opposing offenses at bay over the next 3.5 innings until the Bronco bats awoke again in the bottom half of the eighth inning, capitalizing on three hits and two Toro errors to take the lead with four runs, two of which were unearned.

That held up as the Toros went quietly in the ninth, with the Broncos drawing six walks and fanning three times less that the Cardinal and Gold.

Cortez, Grgas and Camarena each drove in two runs in the loss, CSUDH's fourth in its last six games.

The Toros return home to host Cal State San Marcos for a four-game series, with game one set for a 3 pm first pitch on Thursday.
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