HAYWARD, Calif. — The Cal State East Bay baseball team split two contests on the final day of its season-opening series against Academy of Art on Saturday, winning the game 6-4, before dropping the series finale, 9-5.

CSUEB begins the season with a 2-1 record, and resumes action next week with a four-game series against Holy Names beginning at home on Thursday, Feb. 10 at 2  p.m.

CSUEB 6, AAU 4

Junior Ryan Maciel went 2-for-4 with 2 RBI, and starting pitcher Mark Woinarowicz allowed just one earned run while striking out eight over six innings to lead the Pioneers to a 6-4 win in Game 1 on Saturday.

Woinarowicz gave up only four hits before giving way to senior Ryan Gibson and junior Adrian Padilla, who threw perfect seventh and eighth innings, respectively. Senior Blake J. Campbell pitched around a leadoff walk to record his first save of the season.

Maciel's two-RBI double down the left-field line gave East Bay an early lead, and freshman Jacob Klinovsky's RBI groundout made it 3-0 in the first inning. Academy of Art rallied to knot the score in the fifth, 4-4, but Essex Brown Jr. stole home in the bottom half to put the Pioneers back on top.

Senior Francisco Pedraza homered to left on an 0-1 pitch in the bottom of the eighth to give CSUEB breathing room before sealing the victory.

AAU 9, CSUEB 5

Klinovsky scored two runs, while Brown Jr. tripled and drove in a run in the second game of the day, as the Pioneers fell short 9-5.

Freshman Tommy Scavone threw four innings, allowing seven earned and striking out six to take the loss on the mound. 

East Bay fell behind 7-0 in the top half of the fourth, but scored one run in the bottom half, one in the fifth and three runs in the sixth before the PIoneers' comeback fell short.