SEASIDE — It took more than 74 hours to complete the first two games of the series, but the Warriors and the 11th ranked Cal State Monterey Bay Otters did it.
In the end, the home team Otters took both games, winning game one of the series 9-1 before hanging on to win the second game 4-2 on Tuesday. The first game, which started at 1 p.m. on Friday was halted in the middle of the seventh due to rain, resumed on Tuesday at Noon before Cal State Monterey Bay posting the win, nearly 72 hours after it had started.
The teams got the second game of the series, originally scheduled for Sunday in Seaside, in the books as well.
Jordan Kron went the distance on the mound for Stan State with a solid, but losing, effort.
Games three and four of the series will be made-up in the the upcoming month with date and time to be announced. The remaining two games of the four-game CCAA set is to be played at Warrior Baseball Field in Turlock, where the Warriors are 7-1.
The Warriors have now lost four straight CCAA games and fell to 9-7 overall and 2-4 in league play. Stanislaus is scheduled to host a three-game set against Cal State L.A. this Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting.
In the second game on Tuesday, Kron threw all eight innings and gave up just one earned run on nine hits. He struck out seven and walked three. But the Warrior defense spoiled his good outing. CSUMB scored twice in the third inning on a throwing error and added on another run in the eighth due to a player advancing an extra base on a fielding error.
The only run earned by Kron was on a groundout double-play that scored a run in the fifth.
For the Warriors,
Patrick Mulry doubled in
Michael Chavarria in the first to give Stanislaus a 1-0 lead. Chavarria had tripled to center to start the game. In the Warriors sixth,
Charlie Gaff singled to right to score
Erik Colombini, who had started the inning with a single.
Gaff and
Aldo Koutsoyanopulos each had two hits in the game.
When the series opening game finally resumed today, the Otters had a 6-1 lead. Two dingers — by Hayden Duer and Jeffery Amaral — in the seventh inning gave CSUMB three more runs to make it 9-1. Duer ended up with two homers in the game — but four days apart.
Duer finished "game one" 3-for-4 with two homers and drove in four runs and Amaral was 3-for-4. Monterey Bay, ranked 11th in this week's Collegiate Baseball poll, is now 15-3 and 4-2 in CCAA play.
Nick Molina had homered for Stanislaus in the fourth inning of that game.
