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2025 Baseball Senior Day
Delanie Gearing
4
Sonoma State SSU 15-33, 12-28 CCAA
12
Winner Cal Poly Pomona CPP 14-31, 11-25 CCAA
Sonoma State SSU
15-33, 12-28 CCAA
4
Final
12
Cal Poly Pomona CPP
14-31, 11-25 CCAA
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Sonoma State SSU 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 4 10 1
Cal Poly Pomona CPP 0 4 0 0 3 0 0 5 X 12 14 1

W: Adolphus, Evan (1-2) L: SOUZA, N (1-4)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Alex Kline, Assistant Athletics Director for Communications

Senior Day Victory, Broncos Win Final Game Against Seawolves

POMONA, Calif. – Cal Poly Pomona baseball played their final home game of the 2025 season on Sunday afternoon, defeating Sonoma State 12-4 at Scolinos Field. With the win, they avoided the series sweep and improved to 14-31 on the season and 11-25 in CCAA play.
 

Senior Day
Before the game, the Broncos had multiple ceremonies celebrating the accomplishments of their seniors. Senior catcher Johnny Pappas was recognized for breaking the all-time runs scored record, followed by a senior day ceremony that celebrated Clay Porter, Beau Betten, Brent Cota, Tyler Reiter, Chris Fields, Anthony Gibbons, Marco Malerba, Ruben Del Castillo, Robbie Treto, and Evan Adolphus.
 
University President Soraya Coley then threw out her final ceremonial first pitch, as she announced her retirement from the University this summer.
 

Broncos Say Goodbye to Seawolves
On January 22nd, 2025, Sonoma State University announced that their athletics department would be eliminated due to budget cuts. This means Sunday's game at Scolinos Field marked the final regular season game in Sonoma State Athletics history, and the final game ever played for Sonoma State baseball. SSU softball, track & field, and golf will still be competing in the postseason in the coming weeks.
 
Cal Poly Pomona and Sonoma State baseball first met in 1991, with the Broncos winning their first three meetings. The Broncos would end up going 52-58 all-time against SSU over the next 34 years, including 41-47 in conference games and 5-3 in the postseason.
 
The two teams have been evenly matched for nearly their entire history, as neither has won nor lost more than five consecutive games at a time. Additionally, CPP's all-time run total is 615, while Sonoma State is 617 – just a -2 run differential spread across 110 games. CPP is 3-2 in extra-inning games, 22-28 at Scolinos Field, and 26-27 all-time at Rohnert Park.
 
In 2011, head coach Randy Betten's first year at the helm, the Seawolves defeated the Broncos in the West Region title game to advance to the DII College World Series for the second time in program history. CPP would then go 2-0 in their next two postseason meetings, both conference tournament games in 2014 and 2024.
 
Cal Poly Pomona baseball, and the athletics department, bids farewell to one of the few schools that has an all-time winning record against the Broncos.
 

The Game
Cal Poly Pomona came alive on Saturday afternoon, delivering a resounding 12-4 win over Sonoma State to snap a tough seven-game skid. The Broncos set the tone early with a four-run second inning, sparked by Sebastian Arguelles' RBI single and a sacrifice fly from Robbie Treto. Clay Porter then singled up the middle to drive in a run, followed by a Beau Betten ground out to push across the fourth of the inning.
 
After Sonoma State briefly cut the deficit to 4-2 in the fourth, the Broncos responded with a three-run fifth inning. Brent Cota delivered a key triple to left-center to drive in a run, then Anthony Gibbons and Tyler Chaffee added RBI singles to extend the lead to 7-2.
 
Starting pitcher Evan Adolphus (1-2) battled through 6.1 innings, scattering nine hits and striking out two to earn his first win of the season. Sean Suriyaniel and Chris Fields shut the door with clean relief outings, allowing just one runner to reach base.
 
Cal Poly Pomona broke the game wide open in the eighth. With two runners aboard, Marco Malerba lined a two-RBI single to center field. Moments later, Cota capped his huge day — going 3-for-5 with three RBIs — by crushing a two-run homer to right, sealing the dominant victory.
 
The offense racked up 14 hits overall, with seniors Betten, Cota, Gibbons, and Chaffee leading the charge with multi-hit games.
 
 
Up Next
The Broncos will head up to Cal State East Bay this coming weekend for their final series of the 2025 season.
 
 
Bronco Bits
  • The Broncos finish 52-58 all-time against Sonoma State, including 5-5 in their final 10 games.
  • Randy Betten is now 430-297 (.591) as head coach of the Broncos and 307-217 (.586) in CCAA play.
  • Betten is now 17 CCAA wins away from tying John Scolinos (324) for the most in program history.
  • The Broncos have the third-toughest strength of schedule in all of NCAA Division II, with their opponents going 859-571 (.601) entering the weekend.
  • CPP baseball is now 16-3 on Senior Day games dating back to 2007.