TURLOCK — Last season, the Stanislaus State baseball team won 20 games at home. The Warriors opened the new season with two more victories on Warrior Baseball Field as they swept Fresno Pacific in a doubleheader on Super Bowl Sunday.

The Warriors defeated the Sunbirds, 7-4, in game one and 5-3 in the seven-inning nightcap to win the four-game series.

Charlie Gaff went 3-for-3 and drove in three runs and the bullpen closed out the game to give Ryan Paramo a win on the mound in the opener. In the second game the middle of the lineup had six hits and Nick Voumard picked up his second save of the day as the Warriors improved to 3-1 on the season.

In the home opener, which started at 10 a.m., the Warriors got on the board right away in the first inning on a solo homer by Kyle Nixon. Nixon ended up with a 2-for-4 game. Gino Franceschetti also homered, a solo shot to left in the fourth which gave Stan State a 4-1 lead at the time. Franceschetti had a nice day, going 2-for-3 with two RBIs in each game of the doubleheader.

Paramo made a quality start, going five innings and gave up two earned runs on five hit. Chris Senn and Stewart Alexander pitched in relief before giving way to Voumard to close out the game with a 1-2-3 outing.

In game two, the Warriors' 4-5-6 hitters — Austin Fitzpatrick, Franceschetti and John Holleran — went a combined 6-for-9 with four runs and four RBIs. Holleran smacked the first pitch he saw at Warrior Field with a no-doubter homerun to left in the second inning for a 1-0 lead. Holleran also doubled in a run in the Warriors' three-run fifth that turned a 2-1 game into a comfortable 5-1 lead.

Cody Kruip had a nice outing after taking over for starter Micah Hall in the sixth. After the Sunbirds scored on an error, Kruip struckout Travis Anderson to end the FPU rally. Voumard recorded the final two outs in the top of the seventh for another save — his third in two days.

Fresno Pacific (1-3) was led by Baron Bower who had four hits in the twinbill. Anderson went 3-for-3 in game one.