Box Score TURLOCK -- It only took one mistake Friday for the flood gates to open against the Cal State Stanislaus baseball team.

Cal State L.A. followed a leadoff error by the Warriors in the fourth inning with four two-out RBI hits en route to a six-run inning and a 7-2 win in the opener of a four-game California Collegiate Athletic Association series.

The Golden Eagles (12-8, 10-3 CCAA) had four base hits in the first three innings but only had one runner reach second, as starter Byron Lemon played damage control for Cal State Stanislaus (5-15, 2-11 CCAA) with three scoreless innings.

The tides turned in the fourth when Tyler Christian reached on a fielding error by third baseman Tynan Pedretti. Lemon hit a batter with one out to give the Golden Eagles two base runners, but he would get two outs on infield pop-ups and look poised to escape any trouble in the inning.

That's when Cal State L.A. got their four consecutive RBI base hits. An RBI single by Casey Ryan, RBI double from Scott Masik and two-RBI bloop single to left field by Niko Garcia were all capped off by a two-run homerun over the center field fence by James Wharton, and like that the Golden Eagles were up 6-0.

Lemon (1-3) would throw seven innings and give up seven runs on 11 hits in the loss, but only one of the runs charged to him was earned.

Lemon's counterpart on the mound, Jordan Sechler, nearly threw a complete game and was one inning from a shutout before allowing back-to-back hits in the bottom of the ninth, including Pete Pendley's RBI double to break it up.

Sechler (4-0) went 8 2/3 innings and gave up two runs, both in the ninth, on eight scattered hits, striking out seven and walking none. The reigning NCBWA West Region pitcher of the week retired nine of the first 10 batters he faced and followed that by putting down 12 of the next 15 hitters before Cal State Stanislaus started hitting him in the later innings.

Craig Beevers and Ross Gonsalves each went 2 for 4, with Beevers scoring the Warriors' first run in the ninth after a leadoff infield single. Justin Charles drove in Pendley for the Warriors' second run in the ninth with a two-out RBI single that hopped straight over Garcia at shortstop, who thought he was in position for a routine groundout to end the game.

Four different Golden Eagles had at least two hits. Garcia and Wharton each drove in two runs.

The series continues Saturday with a doubleheader scheduled for an 11 a.m. first pitch.