Box score

CARSON, Calif. – The Pioneer baseball team held a 4-2 sixth inning lead in the opener of their four-game series against Cal State Dominguez Hills. The Toros, who have scored 53 runs in their last five games, erupted for nine runs in the last three innings en route to an 11-6 victory over the Pioneers on April 5.

The defeat leaves the Pioneers with a 5-16 CCAA record. East Bay is 11-20 overall. Cal State Dominguez Hills is 6-15 in the CCAA and 10-19 for the season.

Brad Rich had a good afternoon for the Pioneers going 2-for-2 at the plate with a run scored.

Sako Chapjian led a 20-hit Toro attack with four hits in five plate appearances. Chapjian scored three runs.

The Pioneers opened the scoring with two runs in the top of the third inning highlighted by an Andrew Woolfe sacrifice fly.

Brett Hall drove in David Castillo with a single in the fourth inning to extend the Pioneers' lead to 3-0.

The Toros cut the Pioneers lead to 3-2 in the bottom of the fourth on a Chris Vopinek two-run homer.

Eddie Rettagliata sacrifice bunt scored Woolfe giving the Pioneers a 4-2 advantage in the fifth inning.

Vopinek drove in his third run of the game with a single and Devon Ramirez had a RBI single as the Toros scored twice in the sixth inning to tie the game.

The Toros broke the tie with three runs in the bottom of the seventh. Chris Allen drove in the go-ahead run with a single. Ramirez knocked in his second run of the game with a base hit. Cole Wilson accounted for the Toros third run with a run-scoring single.

Chapjian added a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth for the victorious Toros.

East Bay scored twice in the top of the ninth inning. Kenny Uyetake doubled and later scored on a throwing error. Kyle Zozaya's groundout scored Alex Anicich with the Pioneers second run of the inning.

The four-game series will resume on April 6 with an 11:00 a.m. doubleheader at Toro Field.