For a time this season it seemed as though the Chico State men's soccer team's Senior Day would mark the end of the road for its three seniors–Isaiah Dargan, Omar Nuño, and Rajaee DeLane. Instead, Sunday's showdown with Humboldt State provided an opportunity for the Wildcats to clinch a postseason berth.
 
The trio made sure they will still be playing when the California Collegiate Athletic Association's postseason tournament rolls around, leading the Wildcats to their seventh win in the last eight matches, a 4-1 shellacking of the visiting Lumberjacks.
 

Nuño scored twice and delivered an assist, DeLane dished out two assists, and Dargan anchored a dominating defensive effort.
 
The Wildcats wrapped up the regular season 8-5-3 overall 7-3-2 in the CCAA. They'll now watch the scores roll in from around the conference next weekend and await word on whether they will earn a first-round bye into the conference tournament semifinals, a first-round home match one week from Tuesday, or a first-round road game.
 
Chico State will likely be playing on Nov. 1. The only way the Wildcats will get a bye is if the following for results play out:
-Cal Poly Pomona goes 0-1-1 or worse.
-Sonoma State goes 1-1 or worse.
-Cal State L.A. goes 1-0-1 or worse
-Cal State Dominguez Hills goes 1-0-1 or worse.
 
The Wildcats will play a home match that night unless Cal State L.A. and Dominguez Hills both go 2-0 at Humboldt State and Sonoma State, and Cal Poly Pomona picks up  a win or two ties.
 
In their last chance to pick up points Sunday, the Wildcats took full advantage. Chico State outshot Humboldt State 23-4 and surrendered only one shot on goal.
 
Carter Johnson opened the scoring in the third minute, putting the Wildcats ahead to stay. After stealing the ball in Humboldt State territory, Johnson played a give-and-go with DeLane, dribbled patiently from left to right across the top of the box, and when he found an opening, drilled a low laser home to the far post for his first goal of the season.
 

Dylan Wakefield, who notched the match-winner in the 89^th minute Friday night, scored his second goal of the season Sunday, making it 2-0 in the 22^nd minute. Sasha Peranteau's throw-in got things started. Nuño flicked it with a header to the penalty-kick spot where Wakefield volleyed it home with a chip over the keeper after one bounce.
 
Nuño put the match away with his ninth and 10^th goals of the season during a four-minute stretch early in the second half, becoming the first Wildcat to reach double-digits in goals in consecutive seasons since Major League Soccer MVP Chris Wondolowski did it in 2002 and 2003.
 
In the 56^th minute, Nuño intercepted a back pass, turned, took a touch and hammered it into the top shelf from 18 yards out. In the 59^th minute he got on the end of DeLane's cross, took a touch past the keeper, and scored into the open net.
 
DeLane set the play up with a gorgeous headed flick to himself down the right flank into space.
 
Humboldt State got on the board in the 76^th minute after a defensive miscommunication allowed Johan Muliadi to slide in and poke the ball home from just outside of the goal.
 
But by then the match and postseason berth were in the bag for the Wildcats.