Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CARSON – Troy Neiman’s stretch of zeroes in the hit column finally came to an end. But the zero most important to the Chico State baseball team – the one in the loss column - remains. The Wildcats swept a doubleheader against Cal State Dominguez Hills Saturday in Carson, taking the opener 12-6 before winning the second game 3-1. They improved to 7-0 overall and 3-0 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA).

Neiman, who fired the first six innings of the first no-hitter in Chico State history one week prior, held the Toros without a hit through the first four and two-thirds frames of the nightcap before Alex Sixtos’ ground single up the middle broke the string.

Neiman (2-0) went five full to earn the win. He allowed one run on four hits and struck out four. Chris Rodriguez pitched the final two innings for his first save as a Wildcat. Rodriguez has now thrown five hitless innings this season and struck out 10.

Luke Barker (1-0) threw four scoreless innings in relief of Sean Martin to earn the win in the opener for the 8th-ranked Wildcats. The sophomore struck out four and surrendered three hits and two walks. Mike Botelho got the Wildcats out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth and then pitched a scoreless ninth to collect his first save of the season and the 14th of his career.

Barker entered with two on and none out in the third and allowed one run to score on an infield hit. But he got a huge double-play grounder to limit the damage to a single run and the Wildcats trailed just 5-4.

Chico State quickly took the lead for good in the fourth with Manlove’s single and consecutive triples by Roger Boulden and Slader. Pierson Jeremiah then got Slader home to give Chico State a 7-5 advantage.

Barker pitched around an error in the fourth, and after the Wildcats added an insurance run in the fifth, struck out the last two hitters in the bottom half of the inning with runners on second and third.

Slader singled, stole second, and then scored on Eric Angerer’s base hit to stretch Chico State’s lead to 9-5 in the eighth. They tacked on three more runs in the ninth keyed by Ryne Clark’s 2-run single.

The Wildcats took a quick lead in the opener and then held on. Jake Bailey smacked an opposite-field RBI-single in the first and the Pierson Jeremiah and Cody Webber drove in runs in the second to make it 3-0.

The Toros threatened when Neiman allowed consecutive singles to start the sixth, but Rodriguez got out of the jam while allowing just the one run to score. He worked around a two-out walk in the seventh to close it out.

The series concludes with a single game Sunday at 11 a.m. as the Wildcats attempt to win their 10th straight against the Toros (3-5 overall and 0-3 in the CCAA).