LOS ANGELES -- Sonoma State gave up an eighth inning run that put Cal State L.A. ahead 6-5 and retired the Seawolves in the ninth to win game one of their Saturday doubleheader at Cal State L.A. In game two, the Seawolves were doomed by a four-run fourth inning for the Golden Eagles in a 4-1 game two loss. With the two conference losses, the Seawolves drop to 0-3 in CCAA play and 3-6 overall. The Golden Eagles are now 3-0 in the conference and 8-2 overall.

Game 1: Cal State L.A. 6, Sonoma State 5

For the second consecutive game Sonoma State jumped out to a first inning 2-0 lead, but were unable to ride the early momentum to their first conference victory of the year. The Seawolves two first inning runs came on an RBI single by Cody Morris that scored Daniel Caresio and RBI double by Hayden Cronenbold that plated Eric Ehlow. The Seawolves opened up a 5-2 lead in the seventh when Caresio hit a sacrifice fly that scored Cameron Merriwether, but the Seawolves would lose the three run lead in bottom half of the seventh and go into the final two innings tied at five. The Golden Eagles were able to push across a run in the eight and held down the Seawolves in the ninth to take game two of the series.

Caresio, Cronenbold, Morris and Merriwether each collected two hits in the game and all had RBI's. Spencer Neve went 1 for 4 and got the fifth RBI.  The Seawolves had 12 hits, which is a season-high for them.

Hayden Turpin started the game for the Seawolves and went 3 2/3 innings giving up two earned runs on six hits with three strikeouts. DeVon Golden took the loss for Sonoma State (0-1) going three innings and gave up three runs with only one of them being earned. Golden allowed seven hits and struck out four Golden Eagles. Aaron Gillis was impressive on 1 1/3 innings work striking out three and not allowing a hit.

The Cal State L.A. offensive attack was led by Trent Zaks who went 2 for 3 with two RBI's. Reed Reznicek faced one batter, struck him out and collected his first win of the year (1-0).

Game 2: Cal State L.A. 4, Sonoma State 1

The second half of Saturday's twinbill can be summed up by a four-run fourth inning for the Golden Eagles that opened up a 4-0 lead that the Seawolves couldn't come back from. The Seawolves were able to push a run across home plate in the fifth inning on a Caresio sacrifice fly that scored Devin Alexander. But with the teams playing seven innings in game two, the Seawolves only had six more outs after their run-scoring fifth to tie or take the lead. The Seawolves went 1-2-3 in the sixth and seventh to end the game.

The Seawolves were outhit in the game 7-4 in the game and committed one error to the Golden Eagles zero. Cal State L.A. left five men on base to Sonoma State's four.

Alexander went 2 for 3 in the game. Merriwether and Steven Nagy collected the other two hits for the Seawolves. Ryan Luna started for the Seawolves, going 3 1/3 innings giving up four earned runs on four hits and striking out four. Tyler Sanders came in relief of Luna and give up three hits and no runs in 2 2/3 innings work.

Rodrigo Martinez went 3 for 3 with two RBI's for the Golden Eagles. Ralph Ramirez started and went seven innings allowing the one run on four hits with strikeouts.

Sonoma State wraps up the four game series against Cal State L.A. Sunday at 10:00 AM.