TURLOCK — With great pitching and solid defensive plays, the Stanislaus State baseball team took both ends of the doubleheader to sweep visiting Cal State San Marcos to win the three-game series.

The Warriors won 5-2 in game one and took the finale 8-2 to improve to 14-10 overall and 7-7 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association.

Playing six games in five days, and in need of pitching arms, head coach Kenny Leonesio had to be pleased to see yet another complete game from Jordan Kron in Saturday's first game.

Kron earned his second consecutive complete game and allowed just four hits without yielding an earned run. While not dominating like his last start at San Bernardino (a two-hit shutout with 10 strikeouts), Kron only allow more than one baserunner in an inning twice — and both times the Cougars plated a run without the benefit of a hit. Kron did walk five batters, but limited the damage.

In his last three starts, Kron has allowed just one earned run (against Cal State Monterey Bay) in 26 innings of work with 19 strikeouts.



Offensive, Patrick Mulry stayed hot. In game one, he just missed a homer with a triple off the manual scoreboard. Then, in the second game, Mulry belted a shot over the tall right-field wall into the javelin throw area for his team-leading fifth homer. Mulry, who cleared the highest point of the manual scoreboard Friday night, has now homered in three of the last four games.

Mulry's triple was part of the Warriors' four-run third in the 5-2 win. Nick Molina doubled in two runs and Charlie Gaff accounted for another score with a squeeze bunt that scored Mulry.

In the series finale, Aldo Koutsoyanopulos drove in two runs in the first and Mulry's two-run bomb in the second gave Stan State a 4-0 lead that would hold up. The Warriors tagged on three more runs in the sixth with doubles by Erik Colombini and Scott Stetson ahead of a two-run single by Nick Ippolito.

Robbie DeVries also gave the Warriors the needed effort on the mound with a quality start. DeVries allowed just one run on four hits in six innings to earn the win in the series finale. Three relievers — Phillip Clark, Blake Wilson and Ian Chandler — pitching the final three innings, with the only run a bases loaded walk in the ninth, to close out the game.



Mulry, Colombini, Stetson and Ippolito each had two out of the team's 10 hits in the nightcap.

Defensively, the Warriors turned four doubleplays in the twinbill — three in the second game. Ippolito, who made his retun in the lineup, also made some nice plays throwing out runners from the hole. Mulry also threw out a runner at second trying stretch a single into a double in the fifth inning of game one.

John Putnam had three of the team's nine hits on the day for Cal State San Marcos (15-16, 7-12 CCAA).