POMONA - Two bunts in the opener and a laser beam to close out the day gave the Chico State baseball team the go-ahead runs and Juan Guerra tossed four scoreless innings to earn his first two saves as the Wildcats swept a doubleheader at Cal Poly Pomona by scores of 6-5 and 4-3 Sunday at Scolinos Field. In the first game, Shane Kroker and Justin Manci successfully got down consecutive squeeze bunts in the seventh inning to give the Chico State baseball team a 6-5 lead. Guerra saved the game with three innings of one-hit ball. In the second game, Adrian Bringas smashed an RBI-double down the left field line for the game-winning run in the top of the seventh and Guerra closed the door with a 1-2-3 bottom-half of the inning.

Bringas went 3-for-3 in the first game and set up the squeezes with a sacrifice bunt. Kroker and Jackson Evans finished with two hits apiece.

True freshman Nick Baker picked up his first collegiate victory, surviving a five-run third to throw six innings. Four of those runs were earned. He allowed eight hits, a walk, and struck out three.

Guerra retired the side in order in the seventh, worked around a hit by pitch in the second and then, and got a ground out and a fly out after allowing his only hit of the day, a one-out double in the ninth.

But his day was not done.

Zach Steele's RBI double and Justin Manci's first home run of the season helped the Wildcats build a 3-1 lead in the second game. But the Broncos tied it with two runs in the fifth.

Scott Newberry (2-0) earned the win on the mound by entering with a runner on and no one out in the sixth and retiring three straight Broncos.

The Wildcats got some help when Ben Manlove reached on an error leading off the seventh. Pinch runner Cody Foster moved to second on Mike Schultz's sacrifice bunt, and then instead of pitching to Jackson Evans, the Broncos decided to walk him intentionally to face Bringas.

Bringas' response: Bring it on. He blasted the first pitch he saw down the left field line to plate Foster with what proved to be the winning run.

Chico State starter Jordan Lindebaum was effective, allowing just one run in three-and-two-thirds innings.

The Wildcats, now 5-1 overall and 3-1 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA), return home for a three-game non-conference series against Montana State-Billings Sunday and Monday.

Cal Poly Pomona, which won the first game of the series to improve to 7-0, dipped to 7-3 overall and 1-3 in the CCAA with the losses.