Box Score ROHNERT PARK – The Chico State baseball team's California Collegiate Athletic Association Championship chances just got a lot better. The Wildcats used four pitchers to beat Sonoma State ace George Asmus to take the first of a four-game series 4-3 Friday in Rohnert Park.
 Asmus had allowed four earned runs all season before Friday. He gave up four runs on a season-high 10 hits, including RBI singles by Ryan McClellan, Ryne Clark and Ruben Padilla's go-ahead RBI single in the seventh. Dylan Garcia's sacrifice fly accounted for the Wildcats' other run.
 
The Wildcats need two wins in the last three games of the series to clinch the conference crown. The series continues with a doubleheader at Seawolf Diamond Saturday at 11 a.m. and concludes with the Capital City Clash at Raley Field in Sacramento Sunday at 1 p.m,
 
Chico State trailed 3-0 before scoring twice in the fourth. They tied it in the fifth when Cody Slader led off with a double and scored on Clark's single up the middle.
 
Clark was also in the middle of things in the seventh, starting the rally with a one-out bunt hit. Eric Angerer doubled, but Clark was thrown out trying to score the go-ahead run. Moments later, Angerer did when Ruben Padilla singled to right field, signaling the end of Asmus' outing.
 
After Derek Sesma started and allowed three runs (one earned) on five hits in three-plus innings, Chico State relievers Jesse Silva, Robert Hook and Luke Barker combined on five and two-thirds scoreless frames, allowing only two hits.
 
Silva threw two innings and struck out two. Hook threw two and two-thirds innings, allowing only a hit to earn the win and improve to 6-0. Barker collected his 13^th save with a scoreless ninth, striking out three of the four batters he faced.
 
Clark, Angerer, Padilla and McClellan muscled two hits apiece to lead the offense.