Box Score SACRAMENTO – The Chico State baseball team is hoping that the Capital City Clash marks the end of its late-season crash. Sonoma State completed its first four-game sweep of the Wildcats since 1993 with a 5-0 win Sunday night at Raley Field in Sacramento.

The Wildcats have now dropped six of their last eight games to fall to 32-12 overall and 25-11 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). Two weeks ago Chico State was in strong position to defend its conference title. Now the Wildcats are a game behind conference co-leaders Cal State L.A. and Cal State Monterey Bay.

The Wildcats got a gutsy performance from Kagen Hopkins, who didn’t have his best stuff but limited the Seawolves to three runs on nine hits in six innings. Still, he fell to 7-1 with his first loss of the season. Eric Angerer went 2-for-3 with a double and two walks and Austin Prott went 2-for-3.

But Chico State stranded 14 runners and went hitless in their first nine at-bats with runners in scoring position. The Wildcats also made baserunning blunders with a runner on third in the second and the third inning.

With the shutout, the Wildcats finished the series with just five runs, their fewest in a four-game series since scoring five against Sonoma State in 2003.

They had the crowd thinking back to last year’s “Rally at Raley” when they came back from six runs down to win 9-7 in last year’s meeting in Sacramento. Pierson Jeremiah and Cody Webber walked with two down in the ninth and then Blake Gibbs ripped a single to left to load the bases.

But Prott lined out to center field to end the game.