SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco State baseball team swept its final home doubleheader of the season with a pair of CCAA wins over Cal State Dominguez Hills, 4-0 and 6-2.
Game one Starter
Matthew Hernandez (4-2) went the distance for the Gators. After hitting a batter and allowing a single, the junior settled in and was spectacular. At one point, he retired 14 consecutive batters and finished the game with eight strikeouts and no walks.
Jacob Lopez started the bottom of the first with a hard-hit double to the left field gap and
Bryce Brooks's RBI single back up the middle made it 1-0.
Jordan Abernathy's two-out double gave Hernandez a two-run lead to work with. In the second,
Jacob Lopez sent a two-out single back up the middle. The throw home was up the line and that allowed
Zac Neumann to score easily from second to make it 3-0. In the fifth, Brooks tripled down the left field line and scored on Abernathy's single back up the middle.
Game two starter
Dillon Houser was given an early lead to work with. The Gators drew a pair of walks in the first inning and
Myles Franklin made the Toros pay with his two-out single to right.
The Toros took a 2-1 lead in the fourth but Houser started a 1-6-3 double play to end the inning and escape further damage.
Abernathy led off the fourth with a walk,
Myles Franklin reached on a dropped fly ball in right field, and
Chris Nicholson was hit in the back of the helmet to load the bases. Toros starter Nick Suniga's struggles continued with
Jack Harris' two-run single through the left side that returned the lead to the Gators, then issued his sixth walk of the day to
TJ Conroy before getting out of the inning.
Franklin added an insurance run in the fifth when he drilled one back up the middle past Suniga and in the sixth,
Jack Harris crushed his team-leading sixth homer to left. Franklin came home again on a wild pitch in the eighth.
Houser allowed two runs over six innings, then handed the ball over to
Andrew Najeeb-Brush, who pitched the final three innings and picked up the save.
Up Next
The two teams wrap up the series on Saturday, April 29 at noon. The team's seniors will be honored in a pregame Senior Day ceremony.
Live stats will be available and updates will be posted on Twitter at
@sfstatebaseball.