SAN DIEGO—The hits, and wins, just keep coming for the
Point Loma baseball team.
For the second day in a row, the Sea Lions put up football-score numbers with a 19-13 win over CSU San Bernardino at the NCAA West Regionals at Carroll B. Land Stadium. That puts the hosts into a Saturday match-up again with the Coyotes at 11 am. CSUSB would have to defeat PLNU to force another game for the title.
The Sea Lions have scored 85 runs over their last seven games, all wins. Today, they mashed out 16 hits, 12 of them singles. Every player in the starting line-up had at least one base hit, and
Mason Cook and
Josiah Rodriguez had three each. Rodriguez had a solo home run in the second inning.
There were four lead changes in this slugfest and nine multi-run innings between the two squads.
The Coyotes, who defeated Cal Poly Pomona on Thursday and won the CCAA tournament last week, did most of their damage in the first inning with five runs. They also scored two in the third and sixth, and three more in the eighth.
But the Sea Lions matched their offensive output. They scored four in the fourth to erase a 7-5 deficit to take a 9-7 lead. They scored three in the sixth on
Jake Schwarzt’s three-run shot and then blew the game open in the seventh with a seven spot. They did so on only four hits, using a combination of walks, wild pitches and four singles to plate seven.
Schwartz finished with six RBI on the day, while Cook and
Aidan Arriaga had three each.
The Sea Lions will look to salt away the sub regional tomorrow. The winner will face the victor of the other sub regional at Monterey Bay in a best two-of-three series next week.