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BOX SCORE 2 Game One: #21 Sonoma State 8, Fresno Pacific 3 -- Box Score
Game Two: #21 Sonoma State 10, Fresno Pacific 1 -- Box Score
ROHNERT PARK, Calif. -- The Sonoma State baseball team was firing on all cylinders on Saturday afternoon, sweeping a doubleheader from Fresno Pacific in non-conference action at Seawolf Diamond in Rohnert Park. The Seawolves won by scores of 8-3 and 10-1 to improve to 8-2 on the season. The Sunbirds drop to 8-5.
Steven Moen got the Seawolves on the board in the second inning of game one with a bases loaded RBI single up the middle. A
Jackson Stogner sac fly later in the inning put the Seawolves up 2-0.
After an FPU run in the top of the third,
Sam Montgomery doubled, then came around to score on a
Steven Filippi single. It was the first of four hits in the game for Montgomery, who would lift batting average to .467 by the end of the day.
The score would stay close through the middle innings before Sonoma put the game out of reach in the eighth.
Garrett Gooselaw and Moen each drove in runs as the Seawolves crossed the plate four times despite having just one hit in the inning.
Harmen Sidhu got the start, and eventually the win, on a day in which Coach Goelz stretched out his bullpen with six pitchers. Sidhu tossed a pair of hitless innings while striking out three. Steven Zaharias nailed down the save with a two-inning relief appearance.
Fresno Pacific got out to an early lead in game two, scoring a run in the first inning. The Seawolves wouldn't wait too long before answering, however, pumping out five hits on their way to three runs in the second.
The Seawolves' biggest inning of the day came in the fourth. After a single and a pair of errors,
Marcus Kimura hit a grand slam to push the lead to 7-1.
It was the first home run in over 300 at bats this season for Sonoma State hitters.
The Seawolves would proceed to tack on one more run in the fourth and then two more in the sixth to win, going away.
Sonoma State pounded out 11 hits, but they were also aided by a trio of Sunbird errors that led to five unearned runs.
The Seawolves got tremendous pitching from all three hurlers that took the mound.
Austin Wiggins got the start, going two innings, before giving way to
George Asmus and
Glenn Wallace. The latter two held the Sunbirds hitless over the final five innings, striking out seven.
Asmus was credited with the win after his three-inning performance. He is now 4-0 on the season.
Glenn Wallace extended his season-opening shutout streak to 13 innings.
As a team, the Seawolves have compiled a microscopic 1.91 ERA through their first ten games of the season. They've allowed opponents to hit at a .199 clip.
With eight wins in their first ten ballgames, the Seawolves have concluded non-conference play. They'll open up the CCAA portion of their schedule on Friday when they host Cal State East Bay in a doubleheader.