TURLOCK — The Warriors would love to forget the final three innings of the series opener in a really long and slow paced baseball game Friday night as Cal State San Marcos won the first-ever meeting between the two programs, 12-6.

Stanislaus State, which has been playing great baseball at home this season, allowed 10 runs in the final three innings to dropped its second straight game by allowing double-digits in runs. The Warriors fell to 12-10 overall and 5-7 in California Collegiate Athletic Association play and will have to regroup before Saturday's doubleheader at 11 a.m.

The Stan State pitching staff had trouble all night with a tight strike zone as the Warriors issued 10 walks, hit two batters and threw four wild pitches. Add all that to four errors and a passed ball the results were not pretty for the Red and Gold.

The scrappy Cougars (15-14, 7-10 CCAA), leaders in the CCAA with a .323 batting average, did most of their damage in the 7-run ninth inning. CSUSM, though, only needed three hits in the inning and capitalized on two Warrior errors to take-over and beat Stanislaus in a 4-hour, 5-minute contest for its fifth straight win.

CSUSM received three straight free bases to start the final inning, followed by consecutive blooper singles. Mix in an infield error, a catcher's throw into centerfield trying to cut down a base-stealer and a wild pitch — the long inning finally ended with the Cougars up 12-5. San Marcos had trailed 5-2 going into the seventh, but scored twice in the seventh and a run in the eighth to tie the game at 5-5.

Before all of that, the Warriors managed to stay ahead despite the tough night on the mound. Patrick Mulry's solo bomb over the manual scoreboard in right had given Stanislaus a 4-2 lead. Kyle Nixon's single up the middle scored Aldo Koutsoyanopulos from second in the sixth to make it 5-2.

Koutsoyanopulos, who tripled in the second and scored on a Nixon flyout, ended up 2-for-4. Nick Molina drove in two scores with a double in the third inning and Michael Chavarria also had two hits.

L.A. Gamo led the Cougars with a 3-for-5 night as all 12 CSUSM hits were singles. The first five batters in the CSUSM order went 8-for-23 and scored seven runs and drove in five.