HAYWARD, Calif. – The Cal State East Bay baseball team exploded for 10 runs in extra innings to open their California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) road series against Cal State San Marcos with an 18-10 victory at CSUSM Baseball Field.
 
With the win, the Pioneers move to 4-3 in CCAA action with a 13-6 mark overall on the season. This was East Bay's second consecutive CCAA win.
 
CSUEB tied their season high with 21 hits, which they set in a win over Holy Names in February. The Pioneers also tallied a season high in run scored (18) and RBIs (17). East Bay also set a season-high with five players hit by pitches.
 
In the opening game the East Bay scored early and often as they propelled to a 6-0 lead headed into the fourth frame.
 
During that time, CSUEB stacked up six runs on 10 hits with 5 RBIs. After a Troy Resch single, Wyatt Foreman, who leads the CCAA in batting average (.444), helped the East Bay scoring punch with a RBI double to left field to bring home Michael Thomas, wo reached with a single up the middle.
 
Foreman finished the game with a season marks in hits (5), runs scored (3) and RBIs (3). The native of Brentwood, boosted his league leading batting average to 4.71. Resch and Thomas combined for three hits and three runs scored.
 
Dallas Dey capped off the second inning with a single to left field followed by a single to center field from Matt Cantelme. Dey then scored on an error by the Cougars catcher to claim a 2-0 East Bay lead.
 
Junior Dallas Dey compiled two runs and a hit for East Bay. Matt Cantelme added three runs, three hits, two RBIs and drew two walks.
 
Marcus Wise then pushed a RBI single through the left side scoring Cantelme. Wise, the Pioneer baseball career steals leader, stole his CCAA-leading 17th base. Then Kris Bartlett knocked an RBI single up the middle to score Wise to put the CSUEB ahead 4-0.
 
Marcus Wise turned in a solid overall outing with two runs, two hits, two RBIs and a stolen base. Kris Bartlett, a senior from nearby Tracy, set season highs with four hits and four RBIs and scored two runs.
 
Wyatt Foreman collected two more RBIs with a single through the right side, scoring Bartlett followed by a single by Zack Perugi single up the middle bringing home Thomas who reached after being hit by a pitch. The Pioneers ended the inning with a 6-0 lead over the Cougars.
 
East Bay would score another run in the top of the 4th frame after Wyatt Foreman scored on a Matt Cantelme RBI single up the middle before San Marcos finally got on the board as the Pioneers clung to a 7-1 lead after four innings.
 
The Cougars would battle back with four runs through the next two innings. East Bay added their last run of regulation off a Kris Bartlett RBI single that brought home Matt Cantelme. But CSUSM would take the game into extra innings with three runs in the bottom of the 9th inning.
 
The Pioneers used the extra inning to refuel and blasts off for 10 runs on five hits in the extra frame of action. East Bay began the extra inning with a Wyatt Foreman walk followed by three consecutive CSUEB players hit by a pitch in Zack Perugi, Dallas Dey, and Matt Cantelme that prompted a scored from Foreman.
 
The Pioneers finished the game with nine walks.
 
Pablo Artero then slapped a 2RBI single to left field scoring Dey and Daniel Goodrich, who was pinch running for Zack Perugi. Marcus Wise followed with a RBI double down the left field line to bring home Cantelme. Kris Bartlett then pushed a 2RBI single up the middle with scores from Wise and Artero.
 
After Michael Thomas was hit by a pitch, Evan Steele doubled down the right field line to scored Bartlett before scoring a run himself on a Wyatt Forman RBI single to right field.
 
Daniel Goodrich added another run with a RBI sacrifice fly to bring home Steele. The Pioneers 10 run 10^th frame would conclude with three consecutive walks of Dallas Dey, Matt Cantelme and Pablo Artero and score Foreman for East Bay's final run of the game.
 
The Cougars added a run of their own in the extra frame but it was not enough as East Bay came away with an 18-10 victory.
 
Senior Andrew Fernandez (W, 2-0), a Castro Valley native, racked up his second win of the season after tossing 1.0 innings with one strikeout. But it was Alex Vesia who did most of the work on the mound for East Bay going 5.0 innings with a game high four strikeouts and only one earned run.
 
Nick Risucci also recorded a strikeout with no walked batter in his one inning of action.
 
The second game of the doubleheader was suspended for darkness in the top of the 8th inning with San Marcos leading East Bay 13-4.
 
The Pioneers have registered nine hits and committed a season high six errors. Michael Thomas and Troy Resch leads CSUEB with two hits apiece. Marcus Wise, Zack Perugi, Wyatt Foreman and Evan Steele each have an RBI while Michael Thomas, Dallas Dey, Resch and Joey Dice have all scored a run.

When played resumed Sunday morning, East Bay tacked five runs on the board, tallying four hits and three walks. They made the score 13-9 before San Marcos added a run in the bottom of the eighth. The Cougars then retired the side in the ninth to preserve the 14-9 win.