SAN FRANCISCO — As expected in a low-scoring series with close games, Stanislaus State and San Francisco State played two more one-run games on Saturday, but unfortunately for the Warriors, they were on the losing end both times.
The Gators scored twice in the eighth to win game one 3-2 and held on to a 1-0 game in seven innings in the late-afternoon contest for the doubleheader sweep at Maloney Field at SF State.
The Warriors managed eight total hits in 16 innings on Saturday to dropped to 19-20 overall and 10-17 in the CCAA as the long odds of making the six-team conference tournament get even longer. Meanwhile, SF State keeps its hopes alive by improving to 18-19 overall and 11-15 in league play. Both teams are on the outside looking in up at third place Cal State East Bay (15-12 CCAA). The top three teams in each division are invited to play in the CCAA tournament.
Stan State and SF State will play the rubber game of the series on Sunday back in Turlock with first pitch at Noon.
All three games in the series so far have been decided by one run as the Warriors won Friday night, 2-1, at home.
Saturday in San Francisco, the Warriors led 2-1 after three innings on a two-run single by
Aldo Koutsoyanopulos to score
Patrick Mulry and
Scott Stetson. But SF State gets two runs back in the eighth — one on a throwing error and anotehr on a wild pitch to go ahead 3-2.
Brent Montgomery came in and faced four Warrior batters to get the save on a sac but, a strikeout and a fly out.
Stetson saw his 10-game hitting streak come to an end in game one, going 0-for-3. He did reach in the third when was hit by a pitch. Mulry and Koutsoyanopulos each had two hits to pace Stan State.
Ryan Paramo got the start and threw seven strong innings. He gave up just a run on seven hits, but
Ian Chandler was tagged with the loss in relieve when he walked three batters in the eighth.
In the second game, Stan State starter
Robbie DeVries was in a duel with SFSU's Dillon Houser. DeVries gave up the only run in the game on three hits in six innings of work and fanned six Gators, but Houser held the Warriors down to just two singles — a
Michael Chavarria hit in the fourth and a Mulry leadoff single in the seventh.
Chad Thurston's pinch-hit single in the fourth drove in Myles Franklin for the only run in the game.
