SAN BERNARDINO – Ten different Chico State hitters recorded at least one hit, run, and RBI as the Wildcats pushed across 20 runs on 23 hits to win the series finale at Cal State San Bernardino 20-5 Sunday and salvage a series split. Adrian Bringas led the high-powered Chico State offense with a 4-for-5 effot, home run, and five RBI. Jackson Evans, Jordan Larson, and Michael Murphy collected three hits apiece.
The Wildcats, who have scored 20 or more four times this season and 10 or more 11 times, improved to 15-5 overall and 11-5 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. Cal State San Bernardino dipped to 14-7 overall and 14-6 in the CCAA.
Adam Arakawa, Kevin Seaver, and Deven Braden logged two hits apiece for Chico State. Arakawa pushed his multi-hit streak to eight games and his team-high batting average to .493. Larson, Murphy, Seaver, Danny Dyer, Johnny Hay, and Kyle Leon drove in two runs apiece.
Chico State starter Scott Greene earned his first win as a Wildcat, allowing five runs on seven hits in five innings. Ian Waldron and Jordan Lindebaum each pitched two innings of shutout, one-hit relief.
Evans led off the second with a double and scored on Bringas’ single to left to open the scoring. As it had all series, Cal State San Bernardino also struck early, scoring twice in the second. But it was all Wildcats after that.
With one down in the third, nine straight Wildcats reached base. Larson, Murphy, Arakawa, and Seaver all singled. Arakawa drove in one run and Seaver a pair. Evans tripled home another run, Hay singled home Evans, Bringas smashed a two-run homer, Braden walked, and Leon doubled him home. Just like that it was 10-2.
Evans led off the fourth with a single, stole second, and scored on Braden’s infield hit. And Braden was driven home by Larson’s base hit.
Cal State San Bernardino took one last shot at a comeback with three runs in the fifth, but Chico State answered with an eight-run sixth to put the game away. Bringas’s RBI-double plated Hay, who had walked leading off the inning. After Braden’s single moved Bringas to third, Leon drove him in with a sacrifice fly. Larson’s double scored Braden and Murphy’s single brought Larson home. Danny Dyer’s bases-loaded double drove home two more runs, and Hay and Bringas wrapped up the scoring with RBIs.
Chico State is back in action this weekend when it takes on Cal State Stanislaus in a four-game series. They’ll play single games in Turlock Friday at 3 p.m. and Saturday at noon before heading north to play a doubleheader in Chico Sunday at 11 a.m.
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