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CPP Baseball vs Stanislaus State
Will G. MacNeil
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Winner Stanislaus State STAN 22-17, 15-14 CCAA
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Cal Poly Pomona CPP 24-15, 16-13 CCAA
Winner
Stanislaus State STAN
22-17, 15-14 CCAA
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Final
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Cal Poly Pomona CPP
24-15, 16-13 CCAA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Stanislaus State STAN 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 4 7 0
Cal Poly Pomona CPP 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 0

W: CARR, Casey (5-3) L: Stevens, Rhys (3-2) S: BERTONCINI, Caleb (1)

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Winner Stanislaus State STAN 23-17, 16-14 CCAA
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Cal Poly Pomona CPP 24-16, 16-14 CCAA
Winner
Stanislaus State STAN
23-17, 16-14 CCAA
6
Final
1
Cal Poly Pomona CPP
24-16, 16-14 CCAA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Stanislaus State STAN 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 6 6 1
Cal Poly Pomona CPP 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1

W: VALLEJOS, Damian (3-1) L: Moreno, AJ (2-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Doga Gur, BroncoAthletics.com Contributor

Bats Quiet as Cal Poly Pomona Gets Swept in Saturday Doubleheader by Stanislaus State

POMONA - The Cal Poly Pomona baseball team managed just three runs on 11 hits over 16 innings and was swept by Stanislaus State in a California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) doubleheader Saturday at Scolinos Field. Game scores were 4-2 and 6-1 in the seven-inning nightcap.

CPP, which had won two in a row at the start of the day, fell to 24-16 overall and 16-14 in the CCAA. Stanislaus State improved to 23-17 overall and an identical 16-14 in league play as the teams now share the fourth spot in the standings, half a game back of idle San Francisco State. The Broncos have dropped both ends of back-to-back Saturday conference doubleheaders. CPP took Friday's series opener, 6-1, behind a nine-inning complete game from ace Caleb Reyes.

Cal Poly Pomona will look for a second successive series split in its 2023 home finale on Senior Day at Scolinos Field Sunday. The Senior Day ceremony is slated for an 11:30 a.m. start, with eight standout Bronco student-athletes being recognized in Drew D'Ambra, Elias Jauregui, Trent MacKinney, Matt Orozco, Dante Palacio, Eric Romo, Noel Soto and Zuko Tillman. First pitch has been pushed back to noon from the originally-scheduled start time of 11 a.m.

Game One - STAN 4, CPP 2
Saturday's first game took a mere one hour and 46 minutes to play, marking Cal Poly Pomona's shortest nine-inning contest since at least 1999. The Broncos have played quicker than that 16 times over that span, but all were seven frames on the back end of a doubleheader.

CPP scored the opening run of the afternoon through back-to-back doubles to begin the second by Marco Malerba and Cedrick Perez. Perez was thrown out at third trying to extend his fourth double into a triple.

Stanislaus State struck for a three-run sixth, however, capitalizing on two consecutive hit-by-pitches for openers. A Robert Valdivia sacrifice bunt moved both Warriors into scoring position and preceded a game-tying bunt single back to the pitcher by Alex Solis. A Flavio Perez sacrifice fly and Kyle Rachels double made it a 3-1 game.

The visitors added a fourth tally in the eighth thanks to a one-out Solis double and two-out, bases-loaded single by Danny Murphy. The inning ended on the play, with Rachels getting thrown out trying to follow Solis home as rightfielder Luke Watson fired to catcher Johnny Pappas.

CPP got that run back in its final turn. Brent Cota singled to lead off, but a double play left the Broncos with one out to work with. Malerba's second double of the game and team-best 13th of the season was followed by Perez's RBI single, but an infield lineout ended the drama.

Malerba finished 2-for-4 with the two doubles and both Bronco runs. Perez was also 2-for-4, with one double, and drove in those two scores.

Rhys Stevens (3-2) provided 8.0 solid innings on the mound with four runs against him on seven hits and two walks. He struck out five. Andrew Campbell threw a perfect ninth.

For Stan State, Casey Carr (5-3) went 6.0 frames and allowed one run on four hits. He walked none and fanned two. Caleb Bertoncini (5 H, R, 0 BB) earned the three-inning save, his first on the year.

Game Two - STAN 6, CPP 1 (7)
Stanislaus State got out to a 6-0 lead through four innings of the shortened nightcap. Mac Cabero had an RBI double in the second, with Rachels adding an RBI infield single in the third. A throwing error enabled Solis to score while Rachels swiped second. Three bases-loaded walks in the fourth gave the visitors all the runs they needed. The Warriors had filled the bags on two hit-by-pitches and a bunt single.

Cal Poly Pomona avoided the shutout as freshman catcher Ben Lee poked his fifth double of the year to left with two gone in the seventh, and came around to score when Watson reached via infield error.

AJ Moreno (2-2) went 3.0 innings and allowed five runs, four of them earned, on four hits and three walks. The third-year sophomore right-hander struck out one. Dylan Esquivel (H, R, ER, 3 BB, 3 K) likewise went 3.0 frames, with D'Ambra working around a two-out Cabero double in the seventh.

For Stanislaus State, starter Will Crookham (2.0 IP, 2 BB, HBP) and Damian Vallejos (3-1) combined to take a no-hitter into the fifth inning, where Trent MacKinney doubled with two away. The latter Warrior gave up the lone unearned run on two hits with three strikeouts.
 
Bronco Bits
  • Cal Poly Pomona is 379-235 (.617) overall and 269-174 (.607) in CCAA play under 13th-year head coach Randy Betten.
  • CPP is 17-7 at home in 2023 (40-13 the last two seasons), and 6-5 wearing its white jerseys.
  • Darius Price's reached-base and hit streaks were snapped at 15 and 11, respectively, as he went 0-for-4 in Saturday's first game.
  • Marco Malerba extended his reached-base streak to a current team-best 16 games.
  • Malerba has four two-double games in 2023.
  • The seven-inning nightcap took longer to play (1:52) than the regulation opener.
  • CPP still leads the all-time series, 62-37-1, including 31-19-1 in Pomona and 27-13 in the Betten era (13-9 in Pomona).
  • CPP is fifth in the latest West Region poll, with Stan State rated sixth.
 
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CPP Athletics has gone cashless! Tickets are on sale now for all CPP baseball home games. Fans are encouraged to purchase tickets online prior to coming to campus at broncoathletics.com/tickets or by downloading the HomeTown Fan app on your smartphone or tablet. New this year, only debit and credit cards will be accepted at the box office for admission. Limited concession items will be on sale on-site as well, and the concession stand will also only accept debit and credit cards.

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