SAN FRANCISCO – Kurt Laver spun four shutout innings in relief and Danny Miller mashed a two-run homer, but it was too little, too late for the Chico State baseball team. The Wildcats fell behind 7-1 before eventually losing 7-4 Sunday at San Francisco State.
 
Chico State's first three pitchers all struggled. Brad Lohse (2-4) allowed three runs on six hits before being removed from the game in the third. The junior has now been jumped on for 24 runs on 39 hits in his past 23 innings as his ERA has risen from 2.12 to 5.30.
 
Hunter Haworth gave up two more runs in a third of an inning and then Torgen Soderlund surrendered two runs in an inning of work.
 

After San Francisco State scored seven times on 10 hits in the first four frames, Laver held the Gators without a hit from the fifth through the seventh.
 
The Wildcats, who got on the board on the fourth when Gordon Deacon doubled and scored on Andrew Carrillo's base hit, got back into the game in the eighth on Miller's two-run blast.
 
Deacon reached on an error and scored on Clayton Gelfand's base hit ahead of Miller's rocket over the right-field wall. It was just the second home run hit at Maloney Field this season and cut the lead to 7-4.
 
Carrillo kept the rally going with a single, but a double play ended the inning and the Wildcats went down in quietly in the ninth despite Cody Bistline's base hit.
 
Carrillo and Cameron Santos finished with two hits apiece for the Wildcats, who fell to 17-22 overall and 16-20 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association.
 
They'll wrap up the 2015 regular season with a four-game series against Cal State East Bay beginning Friday at 6 p.m. Senior Day is scheduled for Sunday's season finale.