Box Score TURLOCK — A crooked inning for both teams supplied most of the offense on the day as visiting Cal State East Bay defeated the Warriors, 13-6, on Friday.
The Pioneers scored six times in the top of the seventh to take a 9-2 lead and the Warriors got four runs back in the home half of the seventh but fell short.
Cal State Stanislaus, now 5-10 overall and 1-7 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association, has lost seven straight games.
The Warriors jumped all over the Pioneers early on while starting pitcher
Donnie Fairchilds kept CSUEB quiet.
Skippy Ferreria took the first pitch down the left field line and later came around to score on a
Colton Beatty groundout.
In the second inning,
Clint Brill also doubled down the left field line. Brill would score when East Bay failed to convert the double play chance with a throwing error, to make it 2-0.
Cal State East Bay (10-7, 4-5 CCAA) scored twice in the sixth and scored six times in the seventh on four hits and two Stanislaus errors. The Warriors did get four runs back in the bottom of the seventh to make it 9-6. But CSUEB didn't stop there en route to the 7-run win.
The Pioneers scattered 11 hits off six Warrior pitchers. The Stanislaus bullpen allowed nine runs in the final three innings.
Five Warriors — Ferreria,
Eriksen Dickens, Brill,
Brent Hall,
Tanner Negrette — each had two hits.
The series shifts to Hayward for a doubleheader on Saturday. First pitch is at 11 a.m.