Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Chico State baseball team continued its recent run of brilliant baseball in a doubleheader sweep of visiting Cal State San Bernardino Saturday at Nettleton Stadium. The 5th-ranked Wildcats won 6-1 and then 10-3 to stretch their winning streak to 12 games.

Starting pitchers Troy Neiman and Mike Botelho threw five shutout innings apiece, seven different Wildcats had multi-hit days, and the defense played error-free baseball. The Wildcats improved to 26-5 overall and 19-4 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA).

Neiman and Botelho benefitted from early run support as the Wildcats put up a two-spot in the first in each game. Myles Dempsey drove in a run in the first inning of each game and finished the day 4-for-8 with four RBI.

That was really all the help the starters needed. Neiman struck out nine in five innings, including five straight at one point, to improve to 5-2 on the season. He allowed just four hits and walked three while lowering his season ERA to 1.62.

Botelho also scattered four hits and didn’t walk a hitter over five innings to earn a victory in his third consecutive start and improve to 4-1. The converted closer struck out three and has now given up just two runs in his last 17 innings.

Offensively, Cody Webber and Pierson Jeremiah stayed red hot as well, stretching their hitting streaks to 12 and 11 games, respectively. Jeremiah went 4-for-6 with three runs, two RBI and a sacrifice bunt and is now batting (24-for-44) .545 over that stretch.

Roger Boulden banged and bunted his way to a six-hit day in seven at-bats. He doubled, scored twice, and knocked in two runs. Dempsey went 4-for-8 with five RBI. Blake Gibbs was 3-for-6 with a triple, three runs scored, two RBI and a stolen base. Cody Slader went 3-for-3 with a double, stolen base, and laid down three sacrifice bunts. And Ryne Clark went 2-for-2 with two runs and a stolen base.

Eric Angerer set the tone for the day when the first pitch he saw drilled him leading off the first. It was the 20th time he’s been hit this season and the 34th time in his career – the second most in school history. He’s now just eight doses behind Robby Poole's Chico State single-season record and 11 shy of his his career mark. Angerer is also on pace for 2nd most hit-by-pitches per game in NCAA Division II history.

Jeremiah singled him over before Gibbs knocked him in. Dempsey drove in Gibbs later in the inning to make it 2-0. The Wildcats tacked on a run in the third when Austin Prott led off with a base hit and came around to score on Boulden’s RBI-grounder.

Chico State made it 5-0 in the sixth. Jake Bailey was hit by a pitch leading off the frame, and after Boulden singled up the middle, Slader sacrificed both runners over. Angerer grounded out to short to bring one run home and then Jeremiah singled home another.

Clark singled leading off the seventh and made his way to third with a stolen base and a ground ball before Boulden dropped a bunt single to bring him home for a 6-0 lead.

Sean Martin allowed his only run in three innings of work in the eighth before Luke Barker shut the door in the ninth with a pair of strikeouts.

The second game was very similar in nature.

Angerer and Jeremiah hit consecutive singles to start the first. Angerer would score on a balk before Jeremiah scampered home on Dempsey’s single to left.

The Wildcats added two more runs in the third to stretch their lead to 4-0. Jeremiah singled and Gibbs walked, allowing Webber to sacrifice them over. Dempsey then slammed a two-run single through the right side of a draw-in infield.

They broke it wide open in the fourth as Jeremiah, Gibbs, Webber and Dempsey logged consecutive two-out RBI hits to give Chico State an 8-0 edge.

They tacked on a run in the fifth when Boulden doubled and scored on Jon Peters’ pinch-hit double. And when Cal State San Bernardino threatened to get back into the game with a three-run sixth, the Wildcats got a run back in the bottom-half of the inning on Ronnie Galosic’s RBI-single to left.

Morgan Yee retired the Coyotes in order in the seventh as the Wildcats improved to 10-1 at home, where they’ve won nine straight and 20 of 21 dating back to last season.

The series concludes with a single game Sunday at 11 a.m.