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Drew Atherton
1
Winner Cal Poly Pomona CPP 28-25
0
Cal St. Monterey Bay CSUMB 33-20
Winner
Cal Poly Pomona CPP
28-25
1
Final
0
Cal St. Monterey Bay CSUMB
33-20
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 R H E
Cal Poly Pomona CPP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 1
Cal St. Monterey Bay CSUMB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1

W: May, Darin (1-0) L: WAHL, Austin (1-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Tyler Lobe, Sports Information Director

Broncos Win In 11th To Reach CCAA Title Game

TOURNAMENT CENTRAL

STOCKTON, Calif. – Nick Peifer broke a scoreless tie in the top of the 11th inning, blasting the first pitch he saw in the at bat up and over the left field foul pole for a solo home run, and with a combined shutout effort by Drew Atherton and Darin May on the mound, the No. 6 seed Cal Poly Pomona baseball team outlasted No. 2 seed Cal State Monterey Bay, 1-0 in 11 innings on Friday to advance to the 2019 CCAA Baseball Tournament championship game on Saturday.
 
The Broncos (28-25) will await one of three possible opponents in Saturday's title fight – the No. 2 seed Otters, who fell to 33-20 with Friday's loss to CPP, No. 4 seed Stanislaus State or No. 5 seed San Francisco State, all three of which are still alive at the moment.
 
CSUMB will play an elimination game Friday at 7:00 pm against the winner of the upcoming elimination game between Stanislaus and SF State.
 
CPP will need to be beaten twice on Saturday by which ever team they face.  The championship game will start at 12:00 pm with an if-necessary game following at 4:00 pm.

See what head coach Randy Betten, Peifer and May had to say about Friday's extra-inning victory HERE.
 
Friday's winner's bracket contest between the Broncos and Otters was an epic pitcher's duel between CPP's starter Atherton, who went the first eight innings, and May, who worked the final three, and CSUMB's starter Ethan McRae (seven innings) and reliever Austin Wahl (four innings).
 
Offensively, the Broncos had their chances all throughout the game to put runs up on the board, but they would leave 10 runners stranded on base through the first 10 innings, including two runners in each of the seventh, eighth and ninth innings.
 
It wasn't until the 11th inning with one out that Peifer lifted his fourth home run of the season, one that cleared the top of the foul pole by 10 feet for the first (and only) run of the game.
 
Meanwhile, the Otters had runners in scoring position with one out in the second and third innings, but Atherton worked himself out of the jam both times.  In the bottom of the ninth, the Otters got the lead off man aboard, chasing Atherton from the game in lieu of May.  CSUMB eventually loaded the bases with one out, but a strikeout and a groundout to short stop ended the threat and the game went to extra innings.
 
After Peifer's home run, the Otters would record two consecutive one-out singles, but a 1-4-6-3 double play sent the Broncos to the championship game.  May was credited with the victory on the mound, as he improves to 1-0.
 
Both teams had seven hits in the game.  On CPP's side, one by seven different Broncos, while CSUMB's Kyle Czaplak and TJ Dove each had two apiece.
 
It is the first game in CCAA Baseball Tournament history (dating back to 1999) to feature just one combined run by both teams.