Box Score
TURLOCK, Calif. - A ninth-inning homerun from
Travis Taijeron lifted the Cal Poly Pomona baseball team to a dramatic 4-3 victory Friday at Cal State Stanislaus.
The result pushes the Broncos above the .500 mark in conference play, as they now hold a 7-6 record in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. The Warriors have gone 7-4 through league action so far in 2011.
Casey Yokubaitis put together a strong start for CPP, going 6.2 innings with five strikeouts, while allowing just two earned runs.
Jake Reed picked up his third win of the season by throwing the last 2.1 innings and holding CSUS to zero earned runs.
Although Broncos were outhit Friday, 8-5, CPP proved to be efficient on offense. The top three hitters in the visitor's lineup -
Ryan Goodman,
Mike Santora and Taijeron - accounted for all four of the Broncos' runs.
The top of the CPP order got going in a hurry, as Goodman reached on an error to start the game and Santora promptly drove a triple to the left gap to bring home his teammate. A Taijeron sacrifice fly put the Broncos up 2-0.
The Warriors scratched together a run in the second inning and another in the fourth, knotting the score at 2-2.
The seesaw-style affair continued, with CPP manufacturing a score during the sixth when Taijeron rolled into a double play while CSUS allowed Goodman to cross home plate.
Moving into the bottom of the eighth, the Warriors scored in a similar fashion, with a groundout bringing in a CSUS runner. The left the score at 3-3 going into the ninth and potentially final frame.
Taijeron led off that last inning with a homerun over the centerfield fence and Reed put the Warriors' hitters down 1-2-3 in the bottom half, registering a strikeout to close it out.
The Broncos and CSUS will return to action Saturday with a doubleheader starting at 11 a.m.
