BOX SCORE 1 | BOX SCORE 2 GAME 1: Sonoma State 8, Cal State East Bay 7 (10 inn) -- Box Score
GAME 2: Sonoma State 2, Cal State East Bay 1 -- Box Score

ROHNERT PARK -- Wesley Wallace smashed a walkoff solo home run in the 10th inning of game one, then Justin Serrao came through with a go-ahead (and eventual game-winning) two-RBI double in the eighth inning of game two to help the Sonoma State baseball team to a pair of thrilling victories, 8-7 and 2-1, over visiting Cal State East Bay on Saturday at Seawolf Diamond.  The Seawolves won the series, improving to 6-4 overall and 5-3 in the CCAA.  The Pioneers fall to 6-6 (3-5 CCAA).

Reliever Anthony Pezzola (2-0) recorded the victory on the mound in each contest, working a total of three and two-thirds innings, not allowing a hit to any of the 12 batters he faced, although he did walk two.  Cody Lane came on for the save in the ninth inning of game two, it was his second in as many days.

Offensively, Alex Crosby led the way going 5 for 9 with a home run, two RBI and two runs scored.  His two-run shot in the seventh inning of game one broke a 5-5 tie, which was later erased by Cal State East Bay in its half of the ninth inning with two runs of its own to force extra frames.Dallas Seidel went 4 for 8 with a run batted in and Serrao laced two doubles, one of which held up to be the game winner in the series finale.

In the opener, Daniel Caresio brought home Jackson Stogner on a groundout to put SSU up 1-0 in the first inning before CSUEB came back to score five runs in the third to take a 5-1 lead.  In the fourth, an Eric Ehlow sacrifice fly, a Seidel single, a Garrett Schwartz groundout and a Serrao double brought home runs to knot the game at 5-5.

After Crosby's blast in the seventh, the Pioneers scored twice in the ninth to tie the game at 7-7 and threatened to regain the lead, but Ricky Clark stopped the bleeding and induced an inning-ending groundout to leave the bases full of East Bay runners.  The Seawolves had a chance to end the game in regulation in their half of the ninth, but two runners were left in scoring position on a fly out by Serrao.

A 1-2-3 effort in the top of the 10th by Pezzola put Sonoma State back on offense and it took just two pitches for Wallace to end the game in celebratory fashion with a big fly over the left center field fence.

In the nightcap, Cal State East Bay struck first with a run in the third, but that's all it could muster between three SSU pitchers -- Jon Richards, Pezzola and Lane -- despite eight Pioneer hits in the contest.  Meanwhile, CSUEB's Ben O'Bryan went the first seven innings and gave up just two hits and three walks, striking out nine Seawolf batters.  Brian Bynum came on in relief of O'Bryan and with two outs, he gave up the go-ahead double to Serrao on the 10th pitch of the at bat, scoring Jourdan Weiks and Devin Alexander.

Pezzola gave up a walk to open the top of the ninth, so head coach John Goelz went to Lane, who got two groundouts and a game-clinching strikeout to end the day.

Sonoma State will hit the road for the next two weekends, beginning with a tough four-game series at UC San Diego next Friday through Sunday in La Jolla.  The Seawolves will then step outside of conference play the following weekend for a three-game series at Fresno Pacific before returning home to host Cal State Dominguez Hills on Mar. 14-16.