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CARSON, Calif. – The Pioneer baseball team overcame a 4-0 deficit to defeat Cal State Dominguez, 12-6, on April 7. The victory gives the Pioneers their first CCAA series win of the season.
East Bay improves to 8-16 in CCAA play and 14-20 overall. Cal State Dominguez Hills falls to 6-18 in the CCAA and 10-22 for the season.
“Our team was due for a series victory,” Pioneer coach
Bob Ralston said. “We hit the ball well and came up with a lot of two-out hits in the series.” I was proud of the way we battled and came from behind to win three games over a tough Cal State Dominguez Hills team.”
Jordan Wilder had a big day at the plate for the Pioneers going 4-for-6 with three runs scored and two RBIs. Wilder was 6-for-12 in the series with four runs scored and six runs driven in.
David Castillo contributed to the Pioneer victory with two hits and four RBIs. Castillo hit .500, drove in five runs and scored three times in the four-game series.
Brett Hall and
Kyle Zozaya each had two hits.
Andrew Woolfe drove in a pair of runs.
“Jordan and David came up with some big hits in our victory,” Ralston said. “They both had a tremendous series.”
Pioneer starting hurler
Brandyn Bell allowed four earned runs with four strikeouts in five innings of work to pick up his second victory of the season. Reliever
Michael Chaves hurled four scoreless innings to record his first save.
“Brandyn hung tough and kept us in the game,” Ralston said. “Michael stepped up and pitched great.”
Trailing 4-0, the Pioneers scored six runs in the top of the fifth inning. Wilder singled to drive in a pair of runs while Woolfe and Zozaya each had an RBI. Castillo knocked in the fifth and sixth runs in the inning with a single.
The Toros tied the game with two runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Charlie Sharrer drove in
Brad Rich with the go-ahead run in the top of the sixth inning.
The Pioneers added to their lead with a run in the seventh and three more in the eighth, highlighted by Castillo's two-run single.
East Bay pushed another run in the ninth, matching their highest run output of the season.
The Pioneers will be back in Southern California on April 13-15 to take on Cal State San Bernardino in a four-game series. East Bay will play at Cal State Los Angeles in a makeup doubleheader on April 16.
