CARSON, Calif. --The Cal State East Bay baseball team closed out its series at Cal State Dominguez Hills on Sunday with a dominant 11-0 victory over the Toros, as five Pioneer pitchers combined to hurl a two-hit shutout. 

CSUEB dropped the first two contests of the weekend, but did not allow a run over the final 16 innings of the four-game series to earn a 2-2 road split. The Pioneers improve back to .500 for the season at 19-19 with a 16-16 mark in CCAA games, keeping them in the hunt in a tight CCAA race. 

Jordan Milligan, Stas Kuntz, and Mark Woinarowicz each tossed a scoreless inning to open the game for the Pioneers. Senior Jacob Call took over in the fourth and breezed through five frames, striking out three and throwing just 57 pitches. 

The Toros didn't get their first base runner until the fifth with an infield single off Call that ended up being the only hit the right-hander would allow, as he earned the victory to improve to 4-2. Fellow senior Andrew Fernandez struck out the side in the ninth to secure the shutout victory, East Bay's fifth of the season as a team.

The Pioneers tallied 11 runs on 11 hits, with nine different players recording at least one. Dakota Conners and Adam Hollar led the way with two hits apiece, and Dallas Dey knocked in a team-high three runs. 

CSUEB didn't need to do anything, however, to plate their first run. Four straight walks to open the second inning made it 1-0, and then Jacob Eder hit a sacrifice fly to double the lead. 

The Pioneers broke it open in the fifth after Hollar and Joey Dice were both hit by pitches and Conners singled. Dey roped one down the third-base line for a bases-clearing double, and then Aaron Albaum followed with an RBI single to complete the four-run inning. 

They scored three more times in the sixth on four singles and a walk, then tacked on two more in the ninth on an RBI double by Dice and a two-out single through the hole by Steve Robinson. 

Next up, the Pioneers return to the Bay Area for a crucial series against SF State, beginning Friday, Apr. 20.  The top six teams in the conference advance to the annual CCAA Tournament, and with three series remaining the Pioneers and Gators are currently tied for seventh place with identical 16-16 records, just one game behind Cal Poly Pomona in sixth.