BOX SCORE 1 | BOX SCORE 2 Game 1:  Sonoma State 7, Cal State Stanislaus 6  --  Box Score
Game 2:  Sonoma State 11, Cal State Stanislaus 3  --  Box Score

TURLOCK, Calif. -- Thomas Lee fanned eight batters in seven innings of work in game one to break the program's all-time strikeouts record and the offense exploded for 11 runs on 14 hits in game two as the Sonoma State baseball team kept its CCAA playoff hopes alive with Sunday's doubleheader sweep of host Cal State Stanislaus in Turlock.  The Seawolves (22-22, 20-16 CCAA), who won by scores of 7-6 and 11-3, took three out of four from the Warriors (26-20, 19-17 CCAA) in the four-game series and moved into a tie for fifth place in the CCAA standings with Cal State L.A.

All eyes will now turn to final weekend of the regular season as seven teams are still vying for the remaining three spots in the CCAA Baseball Championship Tournament, scheduled for May 10-12 in La Jolla.  Tournament host UC San Diego has already clinched a berth into the four-team event.  Sonoma State will host Cal State Monterey Bay (25-21, 18-18 CCAA) at Seawolf Diamond on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  Click here for the CCAA standings.

Game 1:  Sonoma State 7, Cal State Stanislaus 6

With eight strikeouts on Sunday, Lee (6-2) now has 201 career strikeouts, surpassing Aaron Parker's 10-year-old mark of 198.  In the victory, Lee allowed four runs (all of which came in the fifth inning) and eight hits to earn his sixth win of the season.  Paul Anaya tossed the final two innings and, despite giving up a two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth, held on for his first save of the season.

it was an emotionally charged game between two teams fighting for the playoffs, but the Seawolves would jump out to a 5-0 lead through the first four and a half innings.  Almost immediately, SSU plated a pair of runs on a two-RBI double by Garrett Gooselaw, scoring Joel Thys and Devon Zenn for the 2-0 lead in the top of the first.  In the third, Garrett Schwartz brought home Gooselaw to put the Seawolves up three, then Thys doubled home Zenn and Jackson Stogner in the fourth for the 5-0 advantage.

Cal State Stanislaus came right back with four runs in its half of the fifth inning on a pair of RBI singles and a two-RBI triple, all with no outs in the inning.  However, Lee came up big with two strikeouts and Thys threw out a Warrior runner attempting to swipe second base to end the inning.

In their next at bat in the sixth, the Seawolves added a couple of insurance runs, runs that would prove to be huge down the stretch.  Zenn blasted a home run down the right field line, scoring himself and Evan Warner to put Sonoma State up by three at 7-4.

With one offensive opportunity remaining, Cal State Stanislaus made things interesting as Eli Davis took SSU reliever Anaya deep with a runner on base, closing the gap to just one run at 7-6.  Anaya would come right back to strikeout Ross Gonsalves, effectively ending the game and securing the win for Sonoma State.

Thys, Gooselaw and Steven Filippi combined for six of the eight hits by the Seawolves in the game, all three had two hits apiece.  Zenn would go 1 for 3, but would score three runs, including the two-run shot in the top of the sixth.

Game 2:  Sonoma State 11, Cal State Stanislaus 3

In game two, five Sonoma State players recorded two hits each as Harmen Sidhu (5-1) struckout another eight batters en route to his fifth win of the season.  Zenn, Thys, Gooselaw, Jeff Boulware and Justin Serrao combined for 10 hits, three of which were a part of a five-run second inning, shortly after surrendering two runs to Cal State Stanislaus in the bottom of the first inning.

Three more Seawolf runs would cross the plate in the top of the third inning to give SSU a large 8-1 lead.  The Warriors countered with one more run in the third, but that would be it for the CSUS offense, as Sidhu and Taylor Herbert stifled Cal State Stanislaus' lineup from the fourth inning on.  Sidhu allowed just five hits, three runs and two walks in six innings, before giving way to Herbert in the seventh; Herbert retired the side in order, striking out two batters to secure the game (and series) victory for Sonoma State.

For good measure, the Seawolves tacked on two runs in fifth and another run in the sixth to post the 11-3 final score.

Sonoma State will welcome Cal State Monterey Bay into Rohnert Park this coming weekend, beginning with a single game on Friday at 3:00 p.m.