March 4, 2011
SEASIDE, Calif.- The Cal State Monterey Bay baseball team dropped the opening game of the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) series Friday, to visiting Chico State at the Otter Baseball Field, 4-2.
Scoreless through the first two and a half innings, the Otters jumped on the board first behind the reigns of senior right handed pitcher #Scott Tully#. Junior #Jared DeCastro# led off the inning with a hard hit ball to right field, then drew the balk off the arm of junior Wildcat pitcher Brian Buckham to advance to second. Sophomore catcher #Tyler Young# singled to center field to move DeCastro over to third with two outs. With runners on the corners, Young drew the throw to second and DeCastro looked towards home. DeCastro scored, before the inning ended.
Adding a run in the third, CSUMB strung together a walk, a sacrifice bunt and a RBI single to right field off the bat of senior #Greg Fujii#.
The next few innings were dominated by the Wildcats. They added a run in each of the last four innings. In the top of the sixth, the Wildcats started off with a single through the left side and stole second to advance another 90 feet closer. The RBI single up the middle was off the bat of senior Adrian Bringas.
Junior Matt Anderson blasted a over the right field fence in the seventh to tie the score at two even.
In the eighth, Bringas came up clutch for Chico, once again with another RBI single that scored a hit Wildcat.
As the Otters took the field in the top of the seventh inning, they looked to shut down the runs, but not before junior Ian McKay took the first pitch of the inning over the scoreboard in left field give the Wildcats a two run advantage.
The two teams face off Saturday, March 5, for games two and three of the CCAA series back at the Otter Baseball Field starting at 11 a.m. The double header will consist of both a nine inning game and one seven.
