BOX SCORE

Cal St. Dominguez Hills (13-15, 8-11 CCAA)  8 Cal St. Monterey Bay (13-20, 8-15 CCAA)   4   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E DH 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 2 0 8 13 4 MB  1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 4 8 2  PITCHING BREAKDOWN   IP H R ER BB SO WP - David HAERLE 5.0 6 3 3 2 2 LP - Michael ISOM 1.1 4 3 3 3 1 S - Danny NIEVES 4.0 2 1 0 1 2 CSUMB TOP PERFORMERS   AB R H RBI MISC Mark HURLEY 4 2 2 0 2B Richie JOHNSON 5 0 2 2 2B CSUDH TOP PERFORMERS   AB R H RBI MISC Kamran YOUNG 4 2 1 2 HR David STEININGER 5 1 2 2 2B

SEASIDE, Calif. – The Cal State Monterey Bay baseball team dropped a 8-4 decision to Cal State Dominguez Hills at the Otter Sports Complex on Saturday, March 29.
 
The Otters fall to 13-20 overall and 8-15 in CCAA play while the Toros improved to 13-14, 8-11 in conference action.
 
The Otters took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Mark Hurley (Hollister/College of San Mateo) hit a 2-out double off the left center wall and Richie Johnson (Leandro/San Jose State) followed with a double to right.
 
The Toros answered with back-to-back three-run innings to take a 6-1 lead, highlighted by Kamran Young's two-run homer over the right field wall.
 
CSUMB put two more runs on the board in the fifth.  Junior Brian Hamm (Pleasanton/Chabot College) got things started by beating out a throw for an infield single and moved to third on Hurley's single down right field line.  Hamm plated on a passed ball which moved Hurley to second.  Johnson once again came up big for CSUMB with a RBI double over the Toro centerfielder's head to score Hurley.
 
The Otters cut the Toro lead to 6-4 with a run in the seventh after junior pinch hitter Noah Graham's (Aliso Viejo/Saddleback JC) leadoff single and back-to-back CSUDH errors.
 
But the Toro offense would not go away quietly, pulling away with two runs in the eighth.
 
The Otters-Toros will play the series finale on Sunday, March 30 at 11 a.m.