ROHNERT PARK, Calif. – A wild day of baseball at Seawolf Diamond wrapped up a four-game sweep of Cal State San Bernardino as the Sonoma State Seawolves walked off a bizarre, 12-inning game one, 5-4, before blowing out their opponents in a six-inning game two, 13-2.
 
Game 1
It took Sonoma State, not one, but two walk-off hits to win the first game of Sunday's doubleheader with San Bernardino, as a baserunning miscue cost the Seawolves a win in nine innings. Despite the extension of the game, the Seawolves came away winners in 12 as they walked off, 5-4.
 
With the score tied at four in the bottom of the ninth inning, Sonoma State loaded the bases with nobody out. Inducing a pair of outs with a fielder's choice and a strikeout, Cal State San Bernardino stayed alive and set their sights on the Seawolves next batter, Rayson Romero, in an attempt to escape the inning unscathed. On a 1-0 pitch, Romero scorched what appeared to be a game-winning base hit to left field. Mitch West trotted home and touched the plate while the Seawolf dugout mobbed Romero between first and second, but as the home team celebrated, the Coyotes appealed back to second base and cut SSU's party short. While the base hit into left brought home the would-be winning run, first-base runner Joshua Montelongo failed to advance from first to second and was subsequently called out on San Bernardino's appeal to the base. The scoring went down as a fielder's choice and a 9-4 putout, which forced the game into extra innings.
 
The two teams battled into the 12th before a winner was finally crowned. Rayson Romero found himself right back in the middle of the action, this time on the base paths while Joshua Lenney smacked an RBI single from the box. Romero, who singled to left and stole second came all the way home on the base hit to left by Josh Lenney. The game-winner capped off a four-hit day for the third baseman.
 
After hitting his first home run of the season the day before, Romero again went yard in game three of the series. Down by one in the first, the Seawolf shortstop turned on a pitch by Blake Timm and sent a long fly ball up and over the fence in left field to tie game at one. Guardino helped the cause in the first as well, scoring Lenney all the way from first on an RBI double to right.
 
The Coyotes tied things back up in the second and the score would remain 2-2 until Jake Sahagian lifted a sac fly to center field, again scoring Lenney on the play. However, San Bernardino came back in the sixth to take a 4-3 lead on Erik Allegro's two-run homer to center.
 
Bryce Nagata hit an RBI double in the seventh which tied things at four, but just missed giving the Seawolves the lead. The lead runner, Grant St. Martin raced home from second for the Seawolves fourth run of the game, but Montelongo proved unable to beat the relayed throw home from right and score the go-ahead run from first on the play.
 
The Seawolf bullpen was outstanding in the outing. Nicolas Vega took over in relief in the sixth, contributing 4.1 shutout innings of two-hit ball, before Grant St. Martin earned the win with his two no-hit innings of work.
 
Game 2
 
The 12-hit Seawolf performance of game one primed Sonoma State for an offensive outburst in game two of the day. A 10-run fifth inning saw 14 Seawolves come to the plate and powered the home team to a 13-2 rout of San Bernardino to wrap the series sweep in six innings.
 
Commanding a three-run lead through three innings, Sonoma State opened up the floodgates in the bottom of the fifth. With runners at the corners and one out, Montelongo doubled to left center bringing home Lenney and Nagata on the play. Anthony Clyma came in to run for Montelongo at second before advancing the final two bases on a pair of wild pitches. Matthew Richards walked, prompting a pitching change, but the next Coyote arm would fare no different. A stolen base, a single to right and another steal put Richards at third and Mitch West at second before Daniel Hawkins hit an RBI single to left. With the score 7-0, Alex Emerick walked to load the bases and forced another call to the bullpen. Nathan Mann greeted the new pitcher with a single to center, before pinch hitter Grant St. Martin walked in the Seawolves' ninth run. An infield fly netted the Coyotes just their second out in the fifth before Lenney reached base for the second time in the inning, working four balls to drive in another run. Sonoma State's 11th run crossed the plate on a wild pitch before Clyma, who originally entered the inning as a pinch runner, saw his batted ball roll through the legs of the San Bernardino shortstop to push the score to 13-0.
 
Michael Byerline was lights-out on the mound and retired the first 14 batters he faced before giving up his first hit of the game in the fifth inning. The Coyotes worked two men aboard during the sixth via single and a hit-by-pitch before eventually scoring their first run on a pair of infield groundouts. A single by Erik Allegro drove in the visitors' second run before Rory McDaid replaced Byerline to record the final out of the inning.
 
The game was called after six innings as San Bernardino could not play past 5:00 pm due to their travel arrangements. Friday's rainy weather forced a double-header to be played on Sunday, which was previously only scheduled for a single, 11:00 am game.
 
With the four-game sweep, the Seawolves improve to 20-14 and 16-12 in conference play, moving the team into a share of third place with Chico State. Sonoma State currently sits behind only 15-11 UC San Diego and 20-7 Cal State Monterey Bay. The Seawolves will return to action Friday, April 13 as they kick off a four-game set with Cal State LA in Southern California. First pitch is slated for 6:00 pm.