Box Score
Friday 7 p.m. Game: Live Stats / Live Audio
STOCKTON, Calif. - With both teams facing elimination Friday in the conference tournament, the Cal Poly Pomona baseball team topped Sonoma State in convincing fashion, 11-4.
The Broncos recorded 18 hits, including a career-high four from junior first baseman
Chris Miller. Senior centerfielder
Travis Taijeron reached base in five of his six plate appearances, including a two-run homerun that gave CPP its initial lead. For Taijeron, it was his 15th homer of the season and 31st of his career.
Right-handed starter
Kevin Bosson threw seven solid innings for the Broncos, allowing seven hits and three runs while striking out six. The victory improves Bosson's record to 10-3 on the season.
CPP plays again on Friday at 7 p.m., when the Broncos challenge the loser of the ongoing game between between UC San Diego and Chico State. Those two squads are battling right now at Klein Family Field on the Pacific campus and to follow live stats of that game,
CLICK HERE. If CPP can capture the Friday night win, it would be one of the two remaining teams in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Tournament.
Joining Miller and Taijeron with multi-hit games were
Tyson Edwards (3-for-4),
Stephen Gonzalez (2-for-4) and
Ryan Goodman (2-for-5).
The 11 runs marks the highest total for the Broncos in a CCAA Tournament game since 2001, when CPP topped the same team - SSU - by a 13-12 score.
Both starters, Bosson and the Seawolves' Joey Van Cleave, worked out of jams in the first two innings to keep the offenses scoreless.
The CPP attack broke though in the bottom of the third, when Taijeron lifted an opposite-field homerun to score himself and
Ryan Goodman. Later in the inning, Edwards managed a 10-pitch walk to load the bases but Van Cleave picked up a strikeout to close the frame.
Taijeron, already 2-for-2 on the day, sent a double down the leftfield line in the fourth to score Goodman and push the Broncos' lead to 3-0.
CPP put up two more runs in the bottom of the fifth, including an RBI single from Edwards. The Broncos had a scary moment to close out their at-bat, as
Mike Santora came up limping as he tried to hustle out a ground ball. He would later be replaced by
Allen Rodarte.
The Broncos' biggest inning came in the sixth on a rally that featured six-straight hits. The first in that strech was a bunt double from
Jordan Whitman, which the SSU third baseman watched roll fair just inside the bag and into the outfield grass. Also registering doubles in the inning were
Jenzen Torres and Gonzalez.
Already on their third reliever of the game, the Seawolves finally put the CPP bats to rest in the final two frames to cap the Broncos' run total to 11.
The SSU offense couldn't get much of anything going against Bosson though and
Jake Reed pitched the final inning for the Broncos without allowing an earned run.
