Box Score

TURLOCK -- The Cal State Stanislaus Warriors baseball team made the best of two Central Washington errors, turning a tight game into a blow out en route to an 11-4 win Thursday afternoon.

Just like Wednesday, the Warriors had two four-run innings to record their 10th straight victory over Central Washington dating back to 2008. Stanislaus, now 2-0 on the young season, begins a four-game set against Academy of Art on Friday at Warrior Baseball Field.

Thursday's starter Vinny Pacchetti struck out 10 batters in six innings and gave up two unearned runs on seven hits for the win on the mound.

Offensively, Thomas Shull went 3-for-4 with a double and Fred Atkins had three hits, a double, two stolen bases and drove in two runs. David Contreras went 2-for-4 with three runs batted in as the 1-2-3 batters combined to go 8-for-13 with six RBI and scored five times. John Canepa also had two hits and two RBI.

Central Washington took a 2-0 lead on a Derrick Webb two-run homerun off Pacchetti in the third inning with starter Kyle Long throwing up zeros. Long, who gave up a leadoff double to Atkins in the first, retired nine straight until the Warrior fourth.

In the Stanislaus fourth, Shull singled to start the frame and went to third on a single by Michael Johnson. Shull then scored on a sacrifice fly by Canepa.

The Warriors even the score in the fifth on three hits, including two doubles. The rally was capped by a Shull run-scoring double that brought home Atkins.

In the sixth, CWU second baseman Brandon Wang was charged with an error for not stepping on the bag during an attempted double play. That set up a first and second, nobody out situation. Then, Vince Hungerford laid down a bunt single to load the bases. The inning eventually ended up with four Warrior runs that included four singles, the error and a passed ball to turn a 3-2 game into a 7-2 Warrior advantage.

The scoring didn't stop there for Stanislaus. After Central scored two more in the seventh off reliever Sean Carrillo, the Warriors pushed four more runs across in the eighth.

Again, the Wildcats defense helped the Warriors with the inning. A leadoff single by Casey Filkins started the rally. Ross Gonsalves put down a bunt to move the runner, but reached first when second baseman Brandon Wang missed the bag again, this time trying to cover first. With one out, Shull singled to center to load the bases to set up a two-run single by Contreras. Shull and Contreras later both scored on singles by Canepa and Joe Medeiros.

Relievers Phil Quad, Michael Johnson and Leonard Giammanco pitched the final 2 2/3 innings of hitless baseball to shutdown the Wildcats (0-2).

Long ended up going 5 2/3 innings and gave up seven runs -- four of them earned -- for the loss. Glen Reser was 3-for-3 and Webb went 2-for-5, scored twice and drove in two runs with his first home run to lead Central Washington.