SAN MARCOS, Calif. — The San Francisco State baseball team exploded for a season-high 22 hits and 14 runs in a 14-8 victory at Cal State San Marcos on Saturday. The Gators dropped game two of the doubleheader 5-3.

All nine SF State (5-20/3-14 CCAA) starters tallied at least one hit in game one. The first three Gators batters doubled and the first six recorded a hit en route to an early 3-0 lead. SF State opened the game up in the fourth with a five-run inning. Four consecutive singles led to two more runs, then a Jacob Lopez double brought in two more. Myles Franklin capped off the scoring with a sac fly that plated Lopez. Connor Fidone's RBI single in the sixth extended the lead to 9-0. The Cougars (13-14/3-12 CCAA) finally got on the scoreboard in the sixth with three runs on Tyler Place's two-run homer and a Nico Maida sacrifice fly. Zac Neumann manufactured a run in the seventh. He singled, advanced on a wild pitch, stole third, and scored on cleanup batter Jordan Abernathy's RBI single through the left side. The Cougars plated a run with two outs in the bottom of the seventh and the two teams traded four-run eighth innings.

Starting pitcher Andrew Najeeb-Brush picked up his first victory of the season. He recorded his third consecutive start in which he went at least six innings and allowed three runs or less. Brent Montgomery pitched two scoreless innings of relief and lowered his ERA by nearly an entire run. Neumann went a perfect 5-of-5 in game one and went 7-of-10 for the day. He scored four times, drove in a run, and stole a base. Abernathy went 5-of-6 in game one and drove in five runs with a run scored.

Game two starter Ryan Bohnet allowed five runs, four earned, in six and two thirds innings of work and was charged with the loss. Cy Vojak threw an inning and two thirds of scoreless baseball but the Gators were unable to come back from the two-run deficit. Cal State San Marcos took an early 1-0 lead on a sacrifice fly in the first inning, then extended the lead to 3-0 on Griffin Teisher's two-run single. With Neumann at first base, Lopez pulled the Gators within two with a two-run shot to center in the fifth. In the sixth, Myles Franklin drew a leadoff walk and Johnny Juarez followed with a game-tying double down the line. The Cougars regained the lead for good in the seventh. Andy Garretson reached on catcher's interference and Ross Lemmel sent the seventh pitch of the at-bat for a triple to center field. He scored on Maida's double to left center.

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The Gators and Cougars face off in the final game of the series on Sunday, April 26 at 11 a.m.