Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 LOS ANGELES – The Chico State baseball team bounced back from a 7-4 loss in game one to beat Cal State L.A. 9-0 in the nightcap Saturday at Reeder Field behind a complete-game shutout from Brad Lohse.

Lohse allowed just five singles and struck out five in improving to 4-0. The sophomore from Chico's Pleasant Valley High School lowered his ERA to 0.67. He's allowed just two runs in 27 innings.

Chico State is now 15-5 overall and 7-4 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. Cal State L.A. is 10-13 overall and 9-9 in the CCAA.

The 15th-ranked Wildcats took the lead on Tyler Madrid's two-run triple and never looked back. Ruben Padilla went 3-for-3, stole a base, and scored three times. Ryan McClellan was 2-for-3 with a pair of runs batted in. Ryne Clark was 2-for-4 and scored two runs.

Chico State trailed 4-0 in the opener but tied it with a fourth-inning rally capped by Eric Angerer's 2-run single. But the Golden Eagles took the lead for good with a run in the fifth.

Marcos Lara (4-1) absorbed his first loss of the season, allowing five runs (four earned) on eight hits in four-and-two-thirds. Jesse Silva, Matt Hutchins and Clayton Gelfand all pitched a scoreless inning in relief.

Padilla pounded out two hits for the Wildcats. Peter Miller and Cody Slader drove in a run apiece.

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