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Box Score 2 BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—After nearly a 24-hour weather delay, CSU Bakersfield and Sacramento State completed Saturday's game Sunday morning before the teams wound up their Western Athletic Conference series later on Sunday afternoon.
Originally scheduled to resume at 11 a.m., game two was delayed an additional two hours after the WAC umpiring crew was dissatisfied with the condition of foul territory and the warning track on Hardt Field. The ninth inning took eight minutes to complete with Sacramento State coming away with a 6-3 victory to even the series at one.
Kody Reynolds finished a triple shy of the cycle for Sacramento State (18-13, 7-2 WAC) as he went 3-for-4 with two RBI's and two runs. Brandon Hunley was 3-for-4 while Andrew McWilliam went 2-for-5 with two runs scored. Frailey. Metzgar, and Carter have combined for six of the eight Roadrunner hits.
In Sunday's regularly scheduled game, CSU Bakersfield defeated Sacramento State 4-2.
Dustin Frailey led off game two for CSUB with a single and stole second. After moving up a base on a Mahlik Jones ground out, he scored on a David Metzgar single. Metzgar came around to score with one out on a Cody White RBI single.
The Hornets got on the board in the second and tied it on a Matt Smith infield single in the third. Jones returned the lead to the Roadrunners with a double that drove in Frailey with one out in the fifth. Cody White added a RBI single to score Jones later in the frame.
Roadrunner starter AJ Monarrez took it from there. The redshirt senior righty retired the final 10 Hornets he faced to lead CSUB to the series victory. Monarrez scattered seven hits, allowed one earned run while striking out six. He threw 116 pitches, 77 for strikes in recording the second complete game of the year for the 'Runner pitching staff.
Frailey was 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Metzgar and White both were 2-for-4. White drove in two runs.
CSUB (7-23, 2-7 WAC) hosts UC Irvine Tuesday night at 6 p.m. Tickets are available through the CSUB Ticket Office at (661) 654-BLUE or tickets@csub.edu, or online at Vallitix.com. The game can be heard on ESPN 1230 AM/98.1 FM and will be streamed via the Roadrunner Sports Network.
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