BOX SCORE 1 | BOX SCORE 2 GAME 1: Cal State Monterey Bay 10, #30 Sonoma State 8 -- Box Score
GAME 2: Cal State Monterey Bay 3, #30 Sonoma State 1 -- Box Score

ROHNERT PARK -- Good Friday wasn't so good to the Sonoma State baseball team, as the 30th-ranked Seawolves -- despite a late, ninth-inning rally in game one -- dropped both ends of Friday's doubleheader, 10-8 and 3-1, to visiting Cal State Monterey Bay at Seawolf Diamond in Rohnert Park.  With the losses, Sonoma fell out of first place in the CCAA standings at 17-6 (20-12 overall), but remains one half game ahead of UC San Diego for second place.  The Otters rise to 16-25 (11-20 CCAA).

The Seawolves burst out of the gate in the opener, plating three runs -- all with two outs -- on back-to-back-to-back RBI singles by Alex Crosby, Garrett Schwartz and Steven Moen.  However, the Otters punched right back in their next at bat, knotting the game up at three apiece, due in part to a couple of defensive errors by SSU and a two-RBI triple by Matt Urakami.

Tied at 3-3 heading into the fifth inning, Cal State Monterey Bay unleashed another blow, a grand slam off the bat of Travis Bonner to put the visitors up 7-3, chasing Sonoma State starter Jon Richards from the ballgame.  Another CSUMB run came across the plate in the top of the sixth for a five-run lead, which would later prove to be crucial.

In the bottom of the sixth, the Seawolves got a run back on a sacrifice fly by Wesley Wallace, but the Otters quickly erased it with another run of their own in the top of the seventh to take a 9-4 lead.

Again, Sonoma State matched Cal State Monterey Bay with a run in the bottom half of the seventh, but again trailed by four runs, 9-5.  The offense for both teams never quit and the Otters proved it by pushing another run home in the top of the ninth for their 10th run of the game.

Being that the Seawolves have five walkoff wins at Seawolf Diamond this season, they rallied for what could have been their sixth.  Jackson Stogner laced an RBI double to right field, Eric Ehlow followed with an RBI infield single and Crosby recorded an RBI groundout to put SSU down just two runs.  However, Sonoma would come up short as CSUMB reliever Brett Hammond came on to get the final out of the game and secure the 10-8 win for the Otters.

Ehlow, Schwartz and Moen had two hits each for the Seawolves, who had 10 as a team.  Richards (4-1) suffered his first loss of the season; he went four and a thirds innings, allowing nine hits and seven runs (four earned).

Kory Groves (2-4) got the win for Cal State Monterey Bay after replacing starter Rickey Guerrero in the fourth inning.  Groves went five and a thirds innings, giving up five runs (four earned) on three hits and two walks.  Three of the five runs off of Groves came in the bottom of the ninth, but both Christian Stubbs and Hammond, who got his first save of the year, combined to get the final two outs in the victory.  Urakami led all hitters, going 4 for 5 with a triple and four RBI.  As a team, the Otters had 15 hits, the most allowed in one game by the SSU pitching staff this season.

In the nightcap, Cal State Monterey Bay drew first blood with a run in the second inning and two more in the third for the 3-0 lead.  Sonoma State got a run back in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI infield single by Stogner, but that would be all the Seawolves would get off of Otter starter A.J. Quintero (4-3), who went the distance for CSUMB's 3-1 victory.  He allowed six hits and the one run while walking two and striking out six.

Stogner went 2 for 3 with the aforementioned RBI and Daniel Caresio also had a pair of hits in the contest.  Haydon Turpin (1-1) was tagged with the loss -- he went five innings and gave up three runs (two earned) on five hits and one walk and a hit-by-pitch.  Devin Alexander came on for the final two innings and kept the Otters hitless the rest of the way, but the damage had already been done.

Sonoma State and Cal State Monterey Bay will wrap up the four-game series with a single game on Saturday, scheduled for 11:00 am.