SEASIDE–Casey Costello became the first pitcher in Chico State baseball history to start a season 12-0 and combined with Stuart Bradley on a four-hitter as the Wildcats beat Cal State Monterey Bay 3–1 for their 12^th straight win Thursday afternoon.
 
Costello allowed just one unearned run on four hits. He struck out three and did not walk a batter. Bradley struck out four and walked one in three hitless and scoreless frames to collect his fourth save.
 
Costello, who has won 12 of his 14 starts, lowered his ERA to 2.05 while becoming just the seventh Chico State pitcher to record at least 12 wins in a season. The school-record is 14.
 
The 4^th-ranked Wildcats improved to 39-7 overall and 32-3 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association with their 12^th straight victory.
 
The only batter that reached base against Costello in the first three frames did so on a wild pitch on strike three. After striking out the first three batters of the inning, he finished it with a fly-out to center field.
 

Costello allowed his first hit leading off the fourth, but got a double-play off the bat of the next hitter, followed by a foul out.
 
Consecutive singles sandwiched an error in the sixth, netting the Otters (27-20, 19-16 CCAA) their lone run of the game.
 
Bradley retired the first eight hitters he faced, three via strikeout, prior to a two-out walk in the ninth. He got his fourth strikeout to end the game.
 
Jimbo Pernetti's home run leading off the fifth inning was the start of a three-run rally for the Wildcats. Casey Henderson reached on an error after Pernetti's shot over the left-field wall. Andrew Carrillo's double plated Henderson ahead of Cody Snider's single through the right side scored Carrillo.
 
Josh Falco's bunt single in the second inning ran his hitting streak to 16 games–tied for the sixth-longest since Dave Taylor took over head coaching duties for the Wildcats and six shy of the school record–and his consecutive games reaching base streak to 36 games.
 
The series continues Friday with a doubleheader starting at noon, and concludes with a single game Saturday at 11, which is also the Wildcats' regular-season finale. With two more victories, Chico State would set a new CCAA standard for in-conference winning percentage. One more win would give the Wildcats 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.