The Chico State baseball team clinched its second straight California Collegiate Athletic Association Championship last weekend. But that does not mean that the Wildcats do not have anything to play for when it wraps up the regular season with a four-game series at Cal State Monterey Bay beginning Thursday.
 
Three wins would give the Wildcats (38-7 overall and 31-3 in the CCAA) the best conference winning percentage in CCAA history. Two wins would give them the program's highest in-conference winning percentage since the 1953 team ran the table in a 10-game Far Western Conference campaign and their highest regular-season winning percentage since 2002.
 
Currently No. 4 in the nation and No. 1 in the West, the Wildcats are also playing to rise up or stay on top of those respective rankings.
 
Chico State is also closing in on some team records. The Wildcats have 21 triples. The school record is 24, set in 1981. The Wildcats have 89 stolen bases. The record is 102, set in 2002. The Wildcats have 69 sacrifice hits. The record is 75, set in 2014. And their fielding percentage of .983 is well above the school record of .977, leads the nation, and is just .001 shy of the NCAA Division II record of .984.
 
Cal State Monterey Bay will pose a strong challenge to the rolling Wildcats, who have won 10 in a row. The Otters are 26-19 overall, including 15-6 in Seaside, and 19-15 in conference play. Cal State Monterey Bay is also on the cusp of clinching a CCAA Tournament berth, needing just one win or one Cal State East Bay loss against Stanislaus State to cement a spot.
 
The series gets started Thursday at 3 p.m., continues with a doubleheader Friday at noon, and concludes with a single game Saturday at 11 a.m. All four games will be streamed at www.chicowildcats.com, where links to live stats will also be available. Saturday's game will also be broadcast locally on AM-1290 KPAY.