HAYWARD, Calif. — The San Francisco State baseball team was dominate at the plate on both ends of a doubleheader with Cal State East Bay, winning game one 22-6 and game two 10-1 to clinch the series.
- SF State improves to 16-9 and 10-5 in the CCAA while Cal State East Bay falls to 12-11 and 4-7 in the CCAA.
- Justin Johnson has now homered in three straight games, hitting home runs in games one and two of the doubleheader.
- The 25 hits and 22 runs in game one are new season highs. 25 hits represents the most hits by the Gators since 2018 when they hit the ball 29 times against Cal State San Bernardino on April 13.
- Daniel Santos homered twice in game one, the first time a Gator has homered twice in a game since the second game of the season.
The Gators put up crooked numbers in the second.
Nicholas Cook singled to left field to bring a pair of runners home.
Armando Murillo and
Jacob French hit back-to-back RBI doubles to extend the lead to 4-0. An RBI single by Derek Laferierre brought French home and forced a pitching change by the Pioneers. Johnson capped off the scoring for the Gators with a double to extend the lead to 6-0.
Johnson added to the lead in the fourth with a sac fly in shallow right field to advance runners at second and third. Santos chopped the ball up the middle to make it a 8-0 ball game.
The Pioneers got on the board in the fourth with a two-run homer from Alonzo Guijarro. The Gators would get both runs back when Cook would score on a throwing error and Murillo was plated home off a single by French. Luke Novitske hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the inning to cut into the Gators' lead 10-5.
Santos launched a two-run homer over left field with no outs in the sixth.
Andrew Silva doubled on the next at bat,
AJ Schrader brought him home with a triple and ran home on a fielder's choice. Gators continued their damage in the seventh when Johnson hit a two-run homer and Cook and Murillo hit back-to-back two-out RBI singles. Both runners were able to score on an error by the second baseman when the ball slipped past his glove to go up 20-5. The Pioneers would score a run in the bottom of the inning, but Santos responded with a solo home run.
- Theo Dopkins made his third start and pitched 2.1 scoreless innings.
- Ian Sullivan (2-1) pitched 3.2 innings for the win, tossing three strikeouts while giving up three hits, two walks and six runs, five earned.
- River Diaz De Leon and James Kolbyt gave the Gators relief innings. Diaz De Leon threw a career high three strikeouts.
- Garrison Finck (0-1) drew the loss, only making it through 1.1 innings
Johnson continued his hot streak and homered in his first at bat to score two runs. Schrader hit an RBI double and
Christian Smith hit an RBI single to give the Gators an early 4-0 lead. French hit a solo homer in the second inning to increase the lead to 5-0.
Christian Smith had the green light on a 3-0 count in the third and singled up the middle to plate a sixth run in the third. Laferreire and Santos each hit RBI singles in the fourth to extend the lead to 8-0 in the fourth. East Bay would finally get on the board in the bottom of the sixth when a ground out allowed a run to score. The Gators added a pair of insurance runs in the seventh when
Camden Andrews hit a two RBI single to left.
- Mickey Radonavich (2-0) made his first start of the season and pitched his first complete game. Radonavich struck out four while allowing four hits and one run through seven innings.
- Dwyer Lewis (2-3) took the loss, going two innings and giving up six runs.
The Gators look to sweep the series with one more game on Sunday, March 17 starting at noon. Live stats will be available through
sfstategators.com/livestats_bsb and live video will be available at the CCAAnetwork.
