LOS ANGELES – The new batting cages at Reeder Field on the campus of Cal State L.A. block the view of the scoreboard from the field. The Golden Eagles probably didn't mind Sunday during the Chico State baseball team's doubleheader sweep. The Wildcats won the first game 15-13 and the second 6-1 to complete a series sweep of the Golden Eagles.
 
The top three hitters in the Chico State batting order – Sonny Cortez, Cameron Santos and Ben Gamba – gave Cal State L.A. fits. Cortez was 3-for-4 with four RBI and three runs in the opener, and doubled, scored a run, and drove in two more in the nightcap. Santos homered in both games, finishing with four hits and four RBI. Gamba went 8-for-10 and drove in three runs.
 
The rest of the Wildcats weren't so bad either. The team pounded out 30 hits Sunday, including 10 that went for extra bases, in improving to 17-6 overall and 7-4 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association.
 
Cal State L.A. slipped to 6-18 overall and 5-8 in the CCAA.
 
Seven Chico State pitchers took the mound in the first game as Cal State L.A. clubbed 18 hits and a pair of home runs. But Chico State Head Coach Dave Taylor turned to an unlikely reliever to get the two biggest outs of the game.
 

Peter Lecce, an outfielder for the Wildcats last season who converted to reliever in the offseason, got a game-ending double-play for his first collegiate save. Stuart Bradley (2-1) got the win after coming on in relief of starter Steven Baker in the third inning.
 
Game two starter Dalton Erb (4-1) earned the win in the nightcap with five shutout innings.
 
The lead changed hands seven times in a wild first game. Chico State took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, a 4-3 lead in the top of the second, a 7-5 lead in the top of the fourth, and finally went ahead for good with six runs in the top of the fifth.
 
Cortez hit a two-run double, Santos Smashed a three-run homer, and then Gamba doubled and scored the final run of the frame to put Chico State ahead to stay, 11-8. The lead was 15-10 heading to the eighth, but the Golden Eagles scored two runs in the bottom-half of the frame to creep closer. Then, with a run already across in the bottom of the ninth and two runners on with one out, Taylor called upon Lecce – his third pitcher of the inning and seventh of the game.
 
Against the first batter he faced, Lecce got a ground ball to third that was turned into a game-ending double play.
 
Gamba was 5-for-5, Cortez 3-for-5, and Santos, Josh Falco, and Jimbo Pernetti pounded out two hits apiece.
 
Erb set the tone for a much milder nightcap. He pitched out of trouble in nearly every inning, but put up five consecutive zeroes.
 
Cortez doubled and scored on Gamba's base hit in the first to stake Erb to a 1-0 lead. Santos tripled and scored on Dillon Kelley's base hit in the fifth to make it 2-0. The Wildcats tacked on two insurance runs in the sixth and solo runs in the seventh and eighth.
 
Meanwhile, relievers Torgen Soderlund, AJ Epstein and Zach Smart combined to allow one run on four hits in four innings of work.
 
Gamba finished with three hits, while Santos, Kelley and Andru Cardenas cranked out two apiece.
 
Cortez has reached safely in 18 consecutive games. Cortez, Falco and Snider have hit safely in seven straight.

The Wildcats are back in action next weekend. They'll host UC San Diego for a three-game series beginning Friday night at 6.