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Cal Poly Pomona Athletics

Nick Cooksey
6
Winner Cal Poly Pomona CPP 4-0
4
Dixie St. DX-BASE 0-4
Winner
Cal Poly Pomona CPP
4-0
6
Final
4
Dixie St. DX-BASE
0-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Cal Poly Pomona CPP 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 11 1
Dixie St. DX-BASE 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 4 5 1

W: Ponce, Cody (1-0) L: File, D. (0-1) S: Franklin, J.J. (2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Broncos Complete 4-Game Sweep of Dixie State

ST. GEORGE, Utah - The Cal Poly Pomona baseball team completed a four-game sweep of Dixie State on Sunday, picking up a 6-4 win in the series finale.
 
The Broncos improve to 4-0 while the Red Storm falls to 0-4. CPP returns to action on Friday with a 5 p.m. road game at Azusa Pacific. The home opener for the Broncos will be Saturday with a 12 p.m. first pitch.
 
Right-hander Cody Ponce got his first start of the 2015 season on Sunday, going four solid innings on a predetermined pitch count. It marked his 10th career victory.

CPP took a 6-1 lead into the later innings but a late rally from Dixie closed the gap to 6-4. That's when star reliever J.J. Franklin took over, shutting down the Red Storm in the ninth to earn his 11th career save. That set a new school record, breaking the previous mark set in 1966.

Dixie jumped out to a 1-0 lead Sunday but the Broncos bounced back with a big five-run rally in the top of the third inning. Jonathon Reynoso opened it with a leadoff double and after a Matt Muñoz sacrifice bunt, CPP put together three-straight RBI hits off the bats of Ryan Webberley, Kyle Garlick and Michael Zidek.

With two outs in that same inning, Michael Erb lined a single to bring in two more runs and push the Broncos' edge to 5-1. 

In the fourth inning, CPP tacked on one more run when Munoz knocked his first career homerun as a Bronco.

Junior transfer Richard McWilliams put together a stellar effort in relief of Ponce, going two innings without allowing a hit or run. After CPP ran into trouble in the eighth inning, Franklin entered and shutdown Dixie with 1.2 scoreless innings to wrap up the win.



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