CARSON — The Stanislaus State baseball team pounded out 17 hits — but it wasn't enough as the Warriors dropped the final game of the three-game series at Cal State Dominguez Hills, 11-6, on Sunday.

The Warriors lost all three games and fell to 18-18 overall and 9-15 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association and now face a tall mountain to climb to get into the conference tournament race. Stanislaus is now 3 1/2 games out of third place in the CCAA North as the top three teams in each division will qualify for the six-team postseason tournament in Stockton.

On Sunday, Stan State scratched and clawed its way back after trailing 3-0 in the first two innings. Run-scoring singles by Gino Franceschetti and Garrett Serino in the fourth and a RBI single by Patrick Mulry in the third tied the score at 3-3.

However, Cal State Dominguez Hills (20-18, 13-13 CCAA South) scored five times in the fifth to regain an 8-3 lead that the Toros never let-up.

Franceschetti highlighted the Warriors' seventh inning with a two-run triple that scored Aldo Koutsoyanopulos and Kyle Nixon. Franceschetti then scored on a grounder by Serino to get the Warriors within two at 8-6.

Michael Chavarria went 3-for-5 including a double in the eighth and Franceschetti tallied three runs batted in with two hits in the game. Mulry, Koutsoyanopulos, Serino and Nick Ippolito each also had two hits.

The Warriors used five pitchers in Sunday's game with starter Robbie DeVries going four innings and gave up five runs on five hits for the loss.

Stanislaus State out-hit CSUDH 17-13 on Sunday despite the loss. It was an offensive three-game series as teams totalled 42 runs on 72 hits.

San Francisco State is the Warriors' next opponent next weekend as Stanislaus will host the Friday opener and the Sunday finale. SF State will host the middle two games of the series as a doubleheader in San Francisco.