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Eric Charles
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Winner CSUN CSUN 11-15, 11-15 Big West
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CSUB CSUB 14-11, 11-7 Big West
Winner
CSUN CSUN
11-15, 11-15 Big West
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Final
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CSUB CSUB
14-11, 11-7 Big West
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
CSUN CSUN 4 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 8 11 1
CSUB CSUB 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 5 7 0

W: Tillman, Zuko (1-4) L: Tucker, Cody (2-3) S: Traxel, Blaine (2)

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Winner CSUN CSUN 12-15, 12-15 Big West
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CSUB CSUB 14-12, 11-8 Big West
Winner
CSUN CSUN
12-15, 12-15 Big West
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Final
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CSUB CSUB
14-12, 11-8 Big West
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
CSUN CSUN 0 5 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 10 13 1
CSUB CSUB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 1

W: Hassel, Jeremy (2-0) L: Joven, Art (2-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Bakersfield Swept in Saturday Doubleheader

Bakersfield, Calif. – CSUN used a big inning in each game to out-slug CSU Bakersfield and sweep a Big West double header at Hardt Field. The Roadrunners dropped just their second series of the season and their first against a conference opponents.
 
The `Runners rallied from a 5-0 deficit in game one on a Tyler Jorgensen two-run homer, but CSUN answered in the bottom of the seventh, when Jason Newman lifted a three-run home to the opposite field to give the Matadors an 8-5 victory.
 
Cody Tucker suffered a hard-luck loss after throwing 5.0 IP with an earned run and four strike outs, keeping CSUB in the game until the seventh.  
 
Bakersfield scored in the first in game two, grabbing their first lead of the series, but the advantage was short lived as CSUN answered again with five runs in the top of the second.
 
This time, the Matadors never looked back, pounding out 13 hits in a 10-1 win.
 
Aaron Charles and Art Joven started for CSUB; neither lasted longer than 1.2 IP, while their CSUN counterparts Gavin Lizik and Jeremy Hassel each pitched into the sixth and earned a win.  
 
Jorgensen and Eric Charles led the `Runners with three hits on the afternoon, while Evan Berkey was 2-for-5 with a walk and a hit by pitch.
 
Newman homered in each game for CSUN.
 
The two team's will wrap up their four-game Big West series tomorrow, with a single game set for 1:00 PM Pacific. Roman Angelo will get the ball for Bakersfield, against CSUN's Blaine Traxel.
 
How it Happened – Game One:
• The Matadors scored four times on five hits in the top of the first inning. Kai Moody and Jason Ruiz had RBI singles, Ryan Ball drove in a run with a triple and Jason Newman added a sacrifice fly as CSUN sent eight men to the plate in the frame.
• CSUN tacked on another when Moody reached on a single with two outs in the second. Ruiz followed with a double over Nick Grossman's head in right to make it 5-0.
• The `Runners got one back in the bottom of the second when Berkey and Grossman led off the inning with singles. Grossman would walk to load the bases, ahead of a run scoring double play off the bat of Jo Stevens.
• CSUB tied the game at five with four runs in the bottom of the sixth. Nick Salas started the rally with a double down the right-field line and came around to score on an Eric Charles single. Roberson followed with an RBI double and two batters later Jorgensen connected for his third home run of the season, knotting the game at five.
• Newman's three-run homer in the seventh broke the tie and provided the final margin of victory, 8-5.  
 
How it Happened – Game Two:
• Berkey put the Roadrunners on top in the first inning of game two with a sacrifice fly to left. Salas scored on the play after reaching on a lead-off single and advancing to third on an Eric Charles base hit.
• CSUN roared back with five in the second to take a 5-1 lead. A single and a pair of walks loaded the bases, before Dalton Vanhille singled to right, clearing the bases when Grossman's throw hit base runner Robert Bullard and ricocheted into the first-base dugout. Vanhille would score on a sacrifice fly from Moody to make it 4-1. One batter later, Newman belted his third home run of the series.
• The Matadors made it six to one on singles from Carlos Arellano and Jason Ajamian in the third.
• CSUN scored two more times in the fourth. Brandon Bohning singled through the left-side for an RBI and Ajamian drove a sacrifice fly to right to make it 8-1.  
•  The Matadors threatened again in the fifth, but Berkey and Casillas combined on a relay to cut down Newman at the plate as he tried to score on Denzel Clarke's double to left center.
• Bohning made it 9-1 when he belted his second home run of the season in the sixth.  
• Clarke manufactured a run in the eighth, when he singled, stole second, reached third on a passed ball and scored on a sacrifice fly from catcher Sean Skelly.
• Angel Saldivar drove in Daniel Carrizosa with a sacrifice fly in the 9th to make it 10-2, but that was as close as CSUB would get.
 
Notable:
• Evan Berkey singled in both ends of the double to extend his active hitting streak to 17 games, best in the Big West. It's also the  
• Jorgensen was 3-for-7, with a home run and two RBI. He reached base in both games extending his on-base run to 23 games, which ranks 10th in program history. He's now tied with Jason Kudlock for the fifth-longest hitting streak at CSUB all-time. He's six games shy of first place, held by current first-base coach David Metzgar (23 games).
• Bakersfield has lost three straight for the first time this season.
 
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