ROHNERT PARK, Calif. – The Cal Poly Pomona baseball team made it seven wins in a row on Saturday as they swept a doubleheader at Sonoma State, winning 7-0 and 4-2 at the Seawolf Diamond.
The Broncos improved to 27-18 overall on the year and 23-11 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association as they look to jump to first in the South Division with only four games left in the regular season.
Game One: CPP 7, SSU 0
Jeff Bain continued to dominate on the mound for CPP, throwing eight scoreless innings as the Broncos kept SSU off the board. Bain finished with five hits and two walks as he upped his win total to seven on the season.
The Broncos scored the first run of the game in the fourth inning as
Daniel Pitts hit his seventh home run of the year, this time to left field to take a 1-0 advantage. A single in the fifth by
Jacob Bernardy scored another run for CPP.
In the sixth inning, CPP sealed the victory to open the series, scoring four runs after an RBI single by
Jason Padlo and a two RBI shot by
Brennan McKenzie. The Broncos finished with 11 hits while holding the Seawolves to only six.
Game Two: CPP 4, SSU 2
The second game of the day was much closer as Sonoma State took an early lead with a sacrifice fly in the third inning to go up 1-0.
CPP answered back, tying the game in the fourth after Padlo singled to left field to score
Cody Martin. The Broncos added another run in the fifth as
Chris Stratton reached base on a fielding error, scoring McKenzie in the process.
Henry Omana was the starter in game two, also tossing eight innings while giving up five hits and two runs as he improves to 5-5 on the season.
The Broncos added two more insurance runs in the eighth, first with an RBI single from Pitts followed by another RBI from Padlo.
CPP will close out the three game series with Sonoma State tomorrow with a single game set for 11 a.m.