Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SAN BERNARDINO – Even when the Chico State baseball team lost Friday, it won. The Wildcats won Friday's first game at Cal State San Bernardino 4-3 behind seven scoreless innings from Brad Lohse. They lost the second game 4-0, but still finished the day atop the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) standings thanks to Cal State Stanislaus' sweep of Sonoma State.
 
Chico State is now 32-8 overall and 24-7 in the CCAA. With nine regular season games to play, the Wildcats lead Sonoma State by percentage points for the conference lead. Chico State is two games ahead of UC San Diego and three games ahead of Cal Poly Pomona.
 
The Wildcats' magic number to clinch a spot in the CCAA Championship Tournament is three.
 
Lohse (8-0) scattered five hits in seven shutout innings of the opener. He struck out four and walked two.
 
Ruben Padilla and Eric Angerer drove in runs to give Chico State a 2-0 lead. Cody Slader's sacrifice fly made it 3-0 in the sixth and then Peter Miller mashed his first home run of the season in the seventh to make it 4-0.
 
Angerer, Miller, Tyler Madrid and Ryne Clark finished with two his apiece.
 
The Wildcats were shutout for the first time this season in the nightcap as Coyotes' starter Ruben Rios (2-2) allowed only four singles.
 
Marcos Lara (7-3) absorbed the loss for the Wildcats. He allowed four runs on seven hits in six innings, striking out seven and walking three.
 
Padilla and Clark each went hitless, ending their hitting streaks and 15 and 13 games, respectively,