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Dylan Esquival and Tyler Chaffee
Will G. MacNeil
Dylan Esquival (left) tossed three scoreless innings of relief and Tyler Chaffee provided four hits Friday at SF State.
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Cal Poly Pomona CPP 24-18, 16-16 CCAA
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Winner San Francisco State SFSU 25-16, 18-15 CCAA
Cal Poly Pomona CPP
24-18, 16-16 CCAA
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Final
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San Francisco State SFSU
25-16, 18-15 CCAA
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Cal Poly Pomona CPP 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 10 3
San Francisco State SFSU 1 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 X 6 11 0

W: SHINN, Nathan (53-0) L: Reyes, Caleb (6-2) S: SILVA, Andrew (4)

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

Broncos Edged in Series Opener at SF State

SAN FRANCISCO - Cal Poly Pomona jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning but was ultimately defeated by San Francisco State, 6-4, in the opener of a key four-game California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) baseball series at Maloney Field on Friday afternoon.

A season-high fourth consecutive loss dropped CPP to 24-18 overall and an even 16-16 in the CCAA. San Francisco State improved to 25-16 overall and 18-15 in league play. The day began with the Broncos sixth in the conference standings and the Gators in a two-way tie for fourth, with a single game separating CPP and third-place Stanislaus State. The Broncos now fall 1.5 games back of SF State.

Brent Cota led off the contest with a single to left center on an 0-2 pitch. Following a fielder's choice groundout, wild pitch and walk, Marco Malerba's single drove in Darius Price from second. With two away and Broncos at the corners, Tyler Chaffee doubled the lead with a single.

The Gators answered with single tallies in each of their first three turns at the plate, with one of them unearned as CPP was charged with one error in each frame.

Redshirt sophomore catcher Matt Sugden's two-out, three-run blast, his fourth of 2023, made it a 6-2 cushion in the fifth.

Cal Poly Pomona got a run closer in the sixth as Chaffee produced his sixth double of the year for starters, moved to third on a flyout, and trotted home on Nick Lugo's first-pitch RBI single.

CPP pulled one more run back in the ninth on Trent MacKinney first home run as a Bronco, a pinch-hit, one-out blast to left center. Price drew a two-out, five-pitch walk to bring the tying score to the plate, but a called third strike gave the series opener to the home side.

In his third straight series-opening start, Caleb Reyes (6-2) allowed season highs of six runs, five earned runs and 10 hits. He walked one and struck out five in 5.0 innings. The senior right-hander was coming off of a nine-inning complete game, with his season ERA going from 1.32 to a still-CCAA-leading 1.90. With the bases full and one out in the second, Reyes got back-to-back strikeouts to keep the game tied at 2-2.

True freshman left-hander Dylan Esquival kept CPP in the game with three scoreless innings in relief of Reyes. The Rancho Cucamonga product surrendered a single and two walks with a season-high four strikeouts in his second straight season-long three-frame stint.

Chaffee provided a season-high four hits, finishing 4-for-4 with a double, one run and an RBI. Cota and Lugo each went 2-for-4.

Nathan Shinn (5-3) matched the longest outing of his year and career of 7.0 frames and gave up three runs on eight hits and two walks. The sophomore left-hander fanned a career-high 11. Right-handed sophomore closer Andrew Silva handled the final two frames, with two punch-outs, to notch his team-leading fourth save.

This series continues with a noon doubleheader on Saturday, April 29, at Maloney Field.
 
Bronco Bits
  • Cal Poly Pomona is 379-237 (.615) overall and 269-176 (.604) in CCAA play under 13th-year head coach Randy Betten.
  • CPP is 7-10 away from home in 2023, and 6-2 wearing its grey jerseys.
  • Caleb Reyes made his 11th mound appearance and ninth start as a Bronco, allowing multiple runs for just the third time.
  • Tyler Chaffee had a five-hit game and a four-hit game as a first-year Bronco in 2022.
  • CPP leads 71-40 all-time in this series that dates back to 1972 (33-22 in San Francisco since 1973).
  • The Broncos are 30-13 against the Gators in the Betten era (16-8 in San Francisco).
  • CPP swept last year's four-gamer in Pomona by an aggregate score of 32-14 after the teams had split the 2020 set in San Francisco.
  • CPP and SF State were among the eight teams reflected in the NCAA's first official West Region poll on Wednesday as being under consideration for one of the six West Regional spots.
 
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