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Seawolves Fall To Coyotes In Series Finale, 7-3

The Seawolves return to the diamond on Tuesday in Seaside.
Box Score:  Cal State San Bernardino 7, No. 24 Sonoma State 3

ROHNERT PARK, Calif-  Cal State San Bernardino's Eric Dow blasted a grand slam to left center field to blow open a tie ballgame in the eighth inning, allowing the Coyotes to take a 7-3 win in the series finale on Sunday at Seawolf Diamond.  CSUSB takes three out of four in the series and moves past Sonoma in to third place in the CCAA standings at 23-19, 20-14 CCAA.  The 24th-ranked Seawolves drop to 29-16, 20-15 CCAA.

Sonoma State busted out early with a pair of runs in the second.  After Alex Todd was hit by a pitch, Kyle Jones laced a double to rigth center to score him.  Jones would come around to score on a sac fly from Kyle Cerrudo.

San Bernardino got one run back in the third when Brandon Day hit a sacrifice fly to score Ethan Chapman.  The score was knotted in the sixth after a Bryce Holland single up the middle. 

Tied 2-2, the game's momentum shifted in the eighth when the Coyotes erupted for five runs on four hits.  Following walks to Matt Winn and Holland and a single to Darren Dworak, Dow put a charge into a ball that cleared the wall in left center to stake his Coyotes to a 6-2 lead.  Later in the inning, the lead would be pushed to 7-2 when Erik Ornelas singled in Chapman.

Sonoma State would get one run back in the ninth when Cerrudo drove in Kyle Jones on a base hit up the middle, but it would be too little, too late.

Josh Lee got the win for CSUSB, pitching two shutout, no-hit innings, to improve to 4-0.  Dow finished the game 2-for-5 with four RBIs and Holland went 3-for-4 to pace a 13-hit Coyote attack.

Sonoma got a pair of hits from Jones, but he'd be the only Seawolf to get more than one as the Coyote staff held the Seawolves to five hits total.  Jacob Fiss was tagged with the loss after throwing three innings and allowing three.  Brian Bordagaray and Eric Davila also pitched for Sonoma in relief of starter Connor Smith. 

The Seawolves will hit the road on Tuesday to take on Cal State Monterey Bay in the makeup of a game that was postponed due to rain in mid-March.  They return home for their final home games of the season next Friday and Saturday against Chico State.