SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - The Cal Poly Pomona baseball team managed just 12 hits and two runs in dropping both ends of a California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) doubleheader to Cal State San Bernardino at Fiscalini Field on Saturday. The scores of the games were 7-1, and 2-1 in the seven-inning nightcap.

With the results, CPP is 6-6 overall and 1-2 in the CCAA. Cal State San Bernardino moves to 6-7 overall and 2-1 in league play. The Broncos had taken an 11-5 decision in the series opener on Friday night.

CPP will look for the series split as it concludes on Sunday, Feb. 27, with a single finale set for a 12 p.m. first pitch at Fiscalini Field.

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Game One - CSUSB 7, CPP 1
Cal Poly Pomona loaded the bases in the first inning around two strikeouts, through two walks and a single, but a fielder's choice groundout got the Yotes out of the jam.

In the third, Ryon Knowles worked a five-pitch free pass with one away, advanced to second on a passed ball, to third on a groundout, and scored the first run of the game on a two-out opposite-field single through the rightside by Jacob Lopez.

A leadoff walk and two-out home run over the left field wall by Jake Borst gave the home side its first lead of the series in the third. It was Borst's league-leading fifth long ball of the year.

After Casey Slattery worked a five-pitch, one-out walk in the fourth, Nick Lugo put together a great 12-pitch at-bat, fouling off five straight 3-2 offerings before pulling a single through the right side to put Broncos at the corners. An infield popup and inning-ending flyout were wrapped around a Johnny Pappas walk that filled the bags.

CSUSB then went on to add a second two-run home run, this one by Riley Parker, in the fourth to make it a 4-1 game. Kyle Csakan and Parker doubled and homered on consecutive first pitches after a flyout started the inning. It was Parker's first blast.

The Yotes produced a pair of insurance runs in the sixth after earning back-to-back bases on balls to begin the frame, and got a third long ball in the seventh as Csakan went deep with two outs and nobody on. The first-pitch shot to left was his third, and the team's CCAA-best 16th.

Scott Armstrong (0-2) went 5.0 innings and allowed five runs on six hits and two walks. The junior right-hander struck out two. Armstrong ducked around a leadoff hit-by-pitch in the second. Later with Yotes at second and third in the fifth, he escaped with two shallow fly-ball outs.

Knowles was 2-for-3 with a walk and a run scored. Jacob Lopez went 1-for-3 with a walk and an RBI.

Sophomore right-hander John Pfeffer (1-1) gave up one run on four hits and five walks over 5.0 frames for CSUSB. He struck out three, with his lone 1-2-3 inning coming in the second. Borst wound up 2-for-4 with a home run, run and two RBI.

Game Two - CSUSB 2, CPP 1 (7)
Each team got a solo home run in the first inning. Ricky Nuñez put CPP on top with his team-best second long ball of the season, both coming in this series. He belted the first pitch of his at-bat over the fence in left after Yote starter Andres Quinones had struck out the first two hitters. The Broncos threatened for more with back-to-back singles, but a groundout concluded the frame.

CSUSB then leveled matters with one gone in the home half thanks to Deshawn Johnson, who, like Nuñez, had also produced a home run on Friday night. It was his third on the year, to center field and coming on the third offering from CPP right-hander Rhys Stevens.

To say that both pitchers settled down would be a bit of an understatement. Quinones faced the minimum in the second, with Lugo thrown out trying to extend his single into a double. Stevens was clean in the bottom. The two sophomores would combine to toss up nine straight zeroes on the scoreboard.

Csakan finally broke the 1-1 deadlock with his second long ball of the day, another solo shot to left with two gone in the sixth to send Stevens out of the contest. Eric Romo's strikeout ended the inning.

Lugo had singled to lead off the fifth and moved to third through a Dylan Long sacrifice bunt and a flyout, but Quinones got Knowles to ground out and leave him stranded.

Stevens (1-2) allowed the two runs over 5.2 innings off of four hits and two walks, striking out three. Nuñez went 2-for-3 with his home run. The Broncos were unable to draw a walk for the first time in 2022.

Quinones (1-1) earned the winning decision, firing a season-long 6.0 frames with just one run and six hits against him. He fanned a season-best six. Two relievers combined on a 1-2-3 ninth, with Oscar Rauda picking up his first save through a called third strike and a groundout. Andrick Jones began the inning with a strikeout.

Bronco Bits: Cal Poly Pomona is 326-206 (.613) overall and 227-150 (.602) in CCAA play under 12th-year head coach Randy Betten ... Eight more walks on the day increased the Broncos' CCAA-leading season total to 84 ... CPP leads, 81-71, in this series that goes back to 1992 ... The Broncos had won three straight meetings entering the day, and have still taken 21 of the last 28 ... CPP is 29-16 against CSUSB under Betten (13-10 in San Bernardino) ... CPP is the CCAA coaches' preseason favorite, garnering six of the 11 first-place votes, while CSUSB is picked 10th ... The Broncos were receiving votes outside of the top 40 in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper preseason poll, released on Dec. 21 ... Game One: First-year Bronco Scott Armstrong drew his third mound start ... Cesar Lopez was back in center field for the first time since starting the first three games of the season there ... Dante Palacio started for the first time this year in right field after five starts in left, one in center and one as the designated hitter ... Casey Slattery's sixth-inning stolen base was his first as a Bronco ... Ryon Knowles swiped his team-best third bag on his third try in the seventh ... CPP pitching allowed a season-high three home runs ... Drew D'Ambra threw a season-long 2.0 innings ... AJ Moreno fired his first scoreless frame as a collegian, matching his high of two strikeouts in the eighth ... Game Two: Rhys Stevens earned his third mound start of the year and eighth of his career.