That must have felt good to Cody Bistline – the huge hit and the refreshing shower.
 
Bistline's two-out bunt single in the bottom of the 10th plated Cameron Santos with the game-winning run, giving the Chico State baseball team it's third walkoff win in the first five games of 2016 Saturday in the first game of a doubleheader against Point Loma Nazarene University.
 

The Wildcats completed the series sweep, improving to 6-0 with a 3-1 win in the second game on the first warm and sunny day of the season Saturday at Nettleton Stadium.
 
It must have felt good to Skip Reager too. The long-time sports editor of the Chico Enterprise-Record and Chico State athletics photographer of late was recovering from surgery in a hospital bed Saturday and listening to the games online.
 
You could say that the Wildcats won two for the Skipper.
 
Bistline started last season – his first in a Chico State uniform – as the backup catcher to All-West Region backstop Peter Miller. But Bistline became the starter when Miller was lost to injury. He performed admirably, hitting .277 and providing strong defense in 30 starts.
 
But the team's rough season left no job safe, and Junior College All-American Dillon Kelley won the catching job entering this season, leaving Bistline to backup duties once again.
 
That did not stop him from making a huge impact Saturday. He came on as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the ninth with the Wildcats trailing 2-1 and laid down a sacrifice bunt to move Josh Falco to second base.
 
Falco scored the tying run on Jerrett Maas' bunt single after moving to third on Cody Snider's infield hit.
 
The Wildcats threatened to win it in the ninth, but with the bases loaded and two down, Sonny Cortez was thrown out a first base on a controversial bang-bang play.
 
In the 10^th, Santos was hit by a pitch leading off the inning, went to second on Kyle Dixon's sacrifice bunt, and stood on third with one out when Bistline strolled to the plate. He laid a perfect bunt down the third base line, catching the Sea Lions sleeping. They did not even get off a throw on the play.
 
Bistline rounded first, threw his batting helmet in the air, and then began running away from the mob of 40 Wildcats sprinting toward him from the first-base dugout wielding water bottles.
 
He quickly succumbed between first and second base and got doused, smiling all the while.
 
Santos finished 3-for-4 with two runs and two stolen bases to pace Chico State's offense. Falco and Ben Gamba had two hits apiece.
 

AJ Epstein (1-0) earned the win by tossing three shutout innings in relief. Steven Baker got the start for the Wildcats and allowed just a run on five hits in six innings. He struck out five and walked one.
 
The second game was tight as well. Gamba'a RBI-single gave the Wildcats a 1-0 lead in the first. Chico State starter Dalton Erb threw six scoreless innings to preserve the lead. But the Sea Lions scored the tying run in the seventh with the aid of a leadoff walk and an error.
 
Chico State responded, this time with a little help from the Sea Lions, who committed three errors and allowed two Chico State hitters to reach base after striking out on wild pitches in the bottom-half of the frame.
 
Cortez and Gamba had hits during the rally.
 
Hunter Haworth then closed the door, working around a leadoff error in the eighth, to convert a two-inning save for his first collegiate save.
 
Cortez, Gamba, Snider and Maas had two his apiece for the Wildcats.
 
Torgen Soderlund earned the win – his first as a Wildcat – allowing the unearned run on a walk in the seventh.
 
Chico State will be back in action next weekend for a three-game series against Academy of Art at Nettleton Stadium.
 
They'll play a single game Friday at 2 p.m. and a doubleheader Saturday at noon.