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TURLOCK — Fresno Pacific's Andrew Douglas got hot late in the game against two usually realible Warrior arms out of the bullpen as the visiting Sunbirds defeated the Cal State Stanislaus, 6-3, in a non-conference game Tuesday.

The Warriors, now 18-13 overall, have lost four straight heading into this weekend's huge four-game series on the road at No. 17 UC San Diego in La Jolla. The Warriors have lost nine straight to the Tritons, the national runner-up team from a year ago.

In Tuesday's non-conference contest against the 12th ranked team in the NAIA, the Warriors went with the entire bullpen on the mound after Kory Wallace threw the first inning. Stanislaus held FPU scoreless for the first five innings and took a 3-0 lead after five.

Ross Gonsalves doubled to start the fifth to extend his hitting streak to 12 games to start the Stanislaus three-run inning. Gonsalves scored on a Colton Beatty single to right for the first run. Fred Atkins and Thomas Shull, who doubled, also drove in runs in the inning.

Two hits and a stolen base created a run for Fresno Pacific (25-14) in the sixth, but it was in the eighth when FPU even the score.

The Sunbirds got two runs on two hits off Quade, who had entered the game with a 3-0 mark and a 1.33 ERA. Opponents were batting just .180 against him. Douglas doubled in the middle of the Sunbird rally.

In the Sunbird ninth, however, came up with two runners on with two outs. He hit an opposite-field shot that cleared the manual scoreboard in right field off Stanislaus' Leonard Giammanco to give FPU a 6-3 lead.

Cal State Stanislaus threatened in its last at bats and worked the bases loaded with just one out on singels by David Contreras and Gonsalves plus a Beatty walk. FPU's Greg Kilgore, however, got two fly outs to the outfield to end the game.

Contreras went 3-for-4, Shull finished with a 2-for-3 game and Gonsalves had two hits to lead the Stanislaus offense.

In all, head coach Kenny Leonesio used eight pitchers in the game with only Michael Johnson pitching more than an inning. Warrior pitchers recorded 10 strikeouts.

Douglas ended up with a 2-for-4, double and three-run homer game. Ryan Acevedo had three hits for FPU.