TURLOCK, Calif. - Cal Poly Pomona produced its second consecutive dramatic sweep of a California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) doubleheader Friday at Warrior Baseball Field over Stanislaus State. The scores were 8-1 and 7-4 in seven innings.

A winner of a season-high and current league-best seven straight, CPP improves to 22-14 overall and 17-9 in the CCAA. Last-place Stanislaus State has now lost five in a row, and is 10-26 overall and 8-23 in conference play. Together with Thursday's 9-0 shutout, the Broncos have clinched a fourth CCAA series victory, and first on the road.

In game one Friday, sophomore right-hander Noel Soto, the reigning CCAA Pitcher of the Week, provided another seven strong innings to pick up his fourth winning decision in his last four starts. The Broncos entered the seventh inning of the shortened nightcap trailing by a run at 4-3, but scored four times, highlighted by a go-ahead two-run double by Ricky Nuñez, for the come-from-behind triumph.

Similarly last Saturday at home against San Francisco State, Soto had twirled a nine-inning complete-game shutout to begin the twin bill, and the Broncos had walked off as 6-5 winners in the nightcap on Ryon Knowles' two-run single, having trailed 5-4 going into the seventh.

Friday's nightcap marked 12th-year Cal Poly Pomona head coach Randy Betten's milestone 400th CCAA contest in charge.

CPP moved up from fifth to fourth after Thursday's victory, and Friday's wins combined with Cal State Dominguez Hills' doubleheader split at home with league leader Cal State Monterey Bay, vaults the Broncos over the Toros as well and into third behind the Otters and Chico State.

This series concludes with a single meeting on Saturday, April 16. First pitch is set for 12 p.m. at Warrior Baseball Field, as the Broncos will go for their second consecutive series sweep and third of the season.

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Game One - CPP 8, STAN 1
It took three pitches for Cal Poly Pomona to crack the scoreboard, as after a Jacob Lopez groundout and called strike, Johnny Pappas belted his second home run in as many days and third on the year. The sophomore catcher reached base five times on Thursday.

Back-to-back errors by the Stanislaus State leftfielder and third baseman put Cesar Lopez and Nuñez on. Sophomore shortstop Nick Lugo worked a two-out, seven-pitch walk, but a foul pop-up ended the inning.

Trevor McInerney led off the home fourth with an opposite-field double into the gap in right center and moved to third on Matt Elser's flyout. Alex Solis' RBI groundout to Lugo tied the score at 1-1, and snapped an impressive streak by Soto, who had not allowed a single run in his previous 24 completed innings.

CPP took the lead right back in the fifth by scoring three times on two singles and three walks. The rally began with a free pass to Casey Slattery at the bottom of the order as the first baseman fell behind 1-2, fouled off a pitch, and then took three straight outside the zone. Jacob Lopez followed with a single, and a walk to Pappas loaded the bases. Successive fielder's choice RBI groundouts by Cesar Lopez and Nuñez plated Slattery and Jacob Lopez. After Knowles drew another walk, Lugo singled up the middle to score Nuñez from second for 4-1.

Soto registered the shutdown home fifth by bookending two swinging strikeouts around a ground ball to Knowles.

AJ Nimeh's third double of the season led off the sixth, but the true freshman centerfielder was stranded at third.

The Broncos threatened to extend their advantage again in the seventh, loading the bases with no outs on a third Warrior error, Nuñez single up the middle, and Knowles bunt single. Stanislaus State pulled off a great defensive play, a rare 3-2-1 twin killing, to temporarily protect their deficit. Third-year freshman third baseman Tyler Chaffee came through with a two-out, two-run, opposite-field single to right, however, on a 1-2 pitch, to make it a 6-1 game.

Two final CPP runs came in the eighth. Slattery singled to right on an 0-2 pitch for starters, moved to second on a groundout, and scored as Pappas stayed hot with a first-pitch RBI single up the middle. Cesar Lopez's ensuing single put Broncos at the corners, and Nuñez's second fielder's choice RBI groundout of the contest plated Pappas.

Soto (4-0) went 7.0 innings and surrendered one run on four hits, a hit-by-pitch and no walks. He struck out six. The Lakewood product cruised through a 13-pitch first through a groundout, popout and called third strike. After the leadoff man reached via error in the sixth, Soto got a flyout and an around-the-horn double play to end the frame. He then started a 1-6-3 double play to wipe out a leadoff error in the seventh.

Connor Tousignant navigated a 1-2-3 eighth, all on the infield, and Drew D'Ambra took the ninth, each with one strikeout.

Pappas finished 2-for-4 with a walk, home run, two runs and two RBI. Knowles and Lugo each went 1-for-3 with two walks, Knowles scoring once and Lugo driving in one. Nuñez had two runs and two RBI, Chaffee two singles and two RBI, and Slattery a pair of runs. Every Bronco starter had a hit.

Anthony Ramirez (0-4) gave up four runs on three hits and five walks over 5.0 frames. The third-year freshman right-hander fanned four, striking out the side in order in the second and four in a row in all en route to a second perfect inning in the third. Ramirez set down eight Broncos in succession in between two Lugo walks.

Game Two - CPP 7, STAN 4 (7)
Starter Drew Atherton faced some immediate adversity in the home first. Leadoff man Grant Bunker reached and wound up on second thanks to two infield errors on one play. The junior right-hander then got Danny Murphy to pop up a bunt to Pappas, and got McInerney swinging. Bunker stole third and Elser walked, but Atherton got Solis to whiff on a 1-2 pitch to escape unscathed.

Atherton worked around an infield single to begin the Warrior second, but after CPP was unable to convert a one-out Slattery double into a run in the third, he was right back under threat in the home half as Bunker opened with a double of his own.

Once more, the La Crescenta native wriggled out of it. Bunker advanced to third on a groundout to Lugo, ahead of a lineout to Lugo. Elser worked a five-pitch walk and scooted to second on a wild pitch, but Atherton got Solis swinging to strand both Warriors in scoring position.

The game's first runs then came from the Broncos in the fourth, despite only one ball leaving the infield. They filled the bags on a Cesar Lopez single, Nuñez walk, and a perfect one-out bunt single by Lugo. Chaffee chopped one right at third base to score Cesar Lopez on the fielder's choice, but Warrior third baseman Solis' throw got past his first baseman, allowing Lugo to sprint all the way around from first on the error for a 2-0 CPP lead.

Stanislaus State answered right back and loaded the bases, all with one away, on two singles around a walk, ending Atherton's afternoon. Bunker greeted Matt Orozco with a first-pitch sacrifice fly, with all three Warrior runners advancing a base. CPP thus intentionally walked Murphy, but McInerney came through in the clutch by looping a two-run single into shallow right center to give the home side its first lead of the weekend. A balk plated Murphy to make it 4-2.

CPP wasted little time in getting one of those tallies back, as Slattery sent his second double of the contest into the gap in right center again, moved to third on a wild pitch, and came home on Jacob Lopez's RBI groundout to short.

Orozco set the hosts down in order in the fifth with two strikeouts, and put up a second zero in the sixth to give his team a final chance.

Nimeh accepted a five-pitch walk to lead off the seventh, and Slattery sacrificed him over to second. Jacob Lopez then expertly worked a seven-pitch free pass, and Pappas wore Noah Chelberg's first pitch to him to fill the bags. On the very next toss, Cesar Lopez hit a bullet to first base, and the Broncos took full advantage of a mental mistake by the Warriors' Jonluke Goldman. Though it looked like he had a play at home on the lead run, and perhaps even a double play, he started to head toward the first base bag, and before hitting it, pivoted and fired to second to get one out there while Nimeh came across with the tying run.

Nuñez jumped ahead of Chelberg 3-0, and after taking a ball, hammered a two-run double to left that narrowly missed being a home run, to regain a two-run advantage for the visitors at 6-4. It continued to unravel for Stanislaus State after a second pitching change, as Knowles walked, and an infield throwing error led to a seventh run.

Junior right-handed closer Eric Romo entered and got a pair of first-pitch outs before Elser waved at strike three, for his fourth save of 2022.

Atherton pitched 3.1 innings with three runs on four hits and three walks against him. He matched his season high with four strikeouts. Orozco (2-0) fanned four as well over 2.2 frames, and picked up the win.

Slattery went 2-for-2 with his two doubles and a run scored. Cesar Lopez was 1-for-3 with a walk, two runs and an RBI. Nuñez wound up 1-for-3 with the big double late, a walk, and two RBI.

Third-year freshman left-hander Casey Carr threw 5.0 frames and gave up three runs, two of them earned, on five hits and two walks. The Turlock native out of Turlock High School struck out five. He was clean in the first. Chelberg (1-3) provided a 1-2-3 sixth, but took the loss.

Bronco Bits: Cal Poly Pomona is 342-214 (.615) overall and 243-157 (.608) in CCAA play under 12th-year head coach Randy Betten ... Second-year freshman designated hitter Jacob Lopez started his 16th and 17th straight games in the leadoff spot ... Eleven more walks on the day increased the Broncos' CCAA-leading total to 202 ... The Broncos are 7-8 away from home in 2022 ... CPP has swept four doubleheaders this year, with Friday's the first on the road ... CPP leads the all-time series, 61-34-1, with six straight wins (31-17 in Turlock with six wins in a row) ... The Broncos are 26-10 against the Warriors in the Betten era (14-3 in Turlock) ... CPP was the CCAA's preseason favorite, earning six of the 11 first-place votes, with Stanislaus State picked sixth ... Game One: Noel Soto drew his eighth appearance and seventh start on the mound ... Soto completed six innings and allowed no more than one run in his fourth straight outing ... Ricky Nuñez's seventh-inning single extended his hit and reached-base streaks to 15 games ... Tyler Chaffee's seventh-inning single advanced his reached-base streak to 16 and hit streak to double digits at 10 games ... Cesar Lopez's eighth-inning single extended his reached-base streak to 16 ... Game Two: Drew Atherton had made 11 starts among 20 appearances prior to this season, and now has drawn three straight starts in 2022 after four relief stints ... For the second straight series, Betten posted the same batting lineup for the third game in a row, with Pappas thus catching all 16 innings of his second consecutive twin bill ... Casey Slattery's first two-double effort as a Bronco give him five on the year ... Cesar Lopez's fourth-inning single extended his reached-base streak to 17 ... Nuñez's fourth-inning walk moved his reached-base streak to 16, and his 10th double in the seventh extended his hit streak to a current team-best 16 games ... With the sixth-inning caught stealing, his second of the series, Pappas has now thrown out seven of 16 would-be base-stealers on the year ... Slattery's seventh-inning sacrifice hit was his second, both coming in this series ... Pappas' seventh-inning hit-by-pitch was his team-best ninth ... Chaffee saw his hit streak snapped at 10 games, and his reached-base streak ended at 16 ... The Broncos equaled their season high of three errors.