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2023 CPP Baseball Huddle
Will G. MacNeil
7
Winner Colo. Sch. of Mines CSM 1-3
4
Cal Poly Pomona CPP 7-1
Winner
Colo. Sch. of Mines CSM
1-3
7
Final
4
Cal Poly Pomona CPP
7-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Colo. Sch. of Mines CSM 2 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 7 12 2
Cal Poly Pomona CPP 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 4 7 0

W: Rodney Gregg (1-0) L: Jauregui, Elias (1-1) S: Marcus Lee (0)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Tyler Lobe, Assistant Athletics Director for Communications

#21 Broncos Fall In Series Finale To Orediggers

POMONA – The 21st-ranked Cal Poly Pomona baseball team fell behind early and couldn't rally late in falling 7-4 to visiting Colorado School of Mines in the final game of a four-game series on Sunday at Scolinos Field in Pomona.
 
The Broncos suffer their first loss of the season, going to 7-1. The Orediggers, meanwhile, win their first game of the 2023 campaign, leaving California with a 1-3 record.
 
Colorado School of Mines plated two runs in the first and two more in the third off of CPP starter Elias Jauregui (0-1), who lasted just three innings on the mound. Dylan Esquival came on for the next two innings and gave up another pair of runs in the sixth as the visitors took a 6-0 lead.
 
CPP's bats woke up in the bottom of the fifth when Malerba hit a grounder to first base with the bases loaded, but Mines decided to try to get the force out at home and the throw was errant, allowing Bobby Hook and Luke Watson to score on the play. Jacob Lopez then came up and delivered a sacrifice fly to score Jordan Ku, cutting the deficit in half at 6-3.
 
In the sixth, Darius Price lifted a sacrifice fly to left, scoring Dylan Long to make it 6-4, but that would be the final run CPP would score the rest of the day. Mines added an insurance run in the seventh to account for the 7-4 final in favor of the visitors.
 
Hook and Long both recorded triples in the contest and Lopez was 2 for 4 with a RBI.
 
For Mines, Tyler Nielsen led the way, going 3 for 5 with three doubles and three RBI.
 
Cal Poly Pomona will take the next eight days off from competition before heading to Biola on Feb. 21 for a single game at 1:00 pm. The Broncos will then return home a couple days later to open CCAA play against Sonoma State.
 
Bronco Bits
  • Head coach Randy Betten is now 362-220 in 12 seasons at Cal Poly Pomona, including 195-86 at home and 109-60 in non-conference games (51-18 in non-conference games at home).
  • Having scored at least one run in today's game, the Broncos' offense has not been shutout in a program-record 128 consecutive games dating back to Feb. 23, 2019. During this current span, the Broncos have shutout their opponents 12 times.
  • Additionally, CPP has not been shutout in 75 consecutive home games dating back to Apr. 29, 2018.
  • It is just the fifth time in program history that the Broncos have started the season 7-1.
  • The Broncos are now 3-1 all-time against Colorado School of Mines.
  • CPP is 1-1 this season when wearing its Green jersey tops.
  • The Broncos are 2-4 all-time when playing on Super Bowl Sunday (2-3 at home).
  • Marco Malerba has recorded a hit in all eight games this season.
  • Brent Cota and Tyler Chaffee currently have a seven-game hit streak going, while Trent MacKinney has a six-game hit streak.
  • Ranked at No. 21 in this week's College Baseball Newspaper/American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Top 30 Coaches' Poll, this is the 67th week since 1998 that CPP has been nationally ranked, including 59 weeks under Randy Betten.
  • As a program, Cal Poly Pomona is now 1,695-1,506-21 in its 63rd season overall, including 646-428-8 in home games since the start of the 1980 season.
 
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