Sunday's Chico State baseball series finale against Saint Martin's was nothing like the first three games of the series—all lopsided wins for the 25^th-ranked Wildcats—until it the Wildcats turned into a game just like the first three. After falling behind early, Chico State scored 13 unanswered runs to win 14-3 and complete the series-opening sweep.
 
Making their first starts of the season, Ernie Arambula and Jordan Mello singled home runs to tie the score at 3 apiece in the fourth inning. Willie Lajoie's two-run blast to center field in the fifth gave Chico State its first lead of the day, and they were off to the races once again. Chico State (4-0) outscored the Saints (0-4) by a combined 59-8 in the series.
 
Andrew Crane had a four-hit day for the Wildcats. Arambula and Lajoie posted three hits apiece, while Jeffrey Ray and Grady Morgan had two hits and drove in two runs apiece. Braeden Gowdy (1-0) collected the win in relief. Starter Eddie Rios and reliever Eric Hill each contributed three innings of work. Hill struck out four and scattered three hits in a scoreless debut. Gavin Kinney pitched the ninth.
 
Rios surrendered one run on five hits and struck out three in three innings of work. A hit by pitch and throwing error set the table for the Saints to grab a 3-1 edge on Gowdy, who then struck out four of the next seven hitters he faced.
 
Meanwhile, having scored a run in the second when Jack Muprhy bunted and went all the way to third on a throwing error before Hunter Boylan's sacrifice fly brought him home, the Wildcats tied the score with a two-out rally in the fourth. Crane singled and moved to second on an error ahead of Arambula's RBI single. Arambula stole second ahead of Mello's RBI-single to left that tied the game at 3.
 
Morgan opened the fifth with a double and Lajoie drove his second homer of the season over the center field wall to make it 5-3. Lajoie walked and scored on a wild pitch in the seventh, and the Wildcats put together their third inning featuring eight runs or more of the series in the eighth. Crane and Arambula singled to seed the rally during which Ray laced a two-run single and Morgan smashed a two-run double. Crane and Arambula later added run-scoring singles, and Andrew Renteria capped the scoring with an RBI-double.
 
The Wildcats will hit the road next weekend for a three-game series at Fresno Pacific, beginning with a single game Friday at 5 p.m. They'll play a doubleheader Saturday at noon. Chico State is back home to face Simpson University in its final non-conference games of the regular season. First pitch for the doubleheader is scheduled for noon.