Toros Lose Baseball Game at Cal Baptist
February 4, 2004

Courtesy Cal Baptist Sports Information Office

Complete Box Score

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004) - Senior LHP Joey Lessa (Riverside, CA/Ramona HS) pitched eight excellent innings and CBU Coach Gary Adcock won his first game as a collegiate head coach as the California Baptist University baseball team routed visiting Cal State Dominguez Hills, 12-1, on Wednesday afternoon in a non-conference game.

CBU improved to 1-4 this season, while CSUDH fell to 1-2.

Lessa (1-0) gave up just one run with six hits and two walks while striking out five. It was the 21st win of his four-year career. Senior RHP Justin Hurd (Riverside, CA/J.W. North HS/Riverside CC) pitched a scoreless ninth inning.

Senior 1B Steve Ferreira (Riverside, CA/J.W. North HS/UC Riverside) and junior SS Ryan Wigley (Bakersfield, CA/Bakersfield Christian HS/College of Sequoias) each had three hits for the Lancers, and senior LF Nick Gor (Yorba Linda, CA/Esperanza HS/Oral Roberts Univ.) slugged a two-run home run in the fifth inning.

The Toros took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second inning on a leadoff solo home run by junior DH Jose Montes. Although CSUDH was able to get runners into scoring position in the third, fourth and fifth innings, Lessa and the Lancer defense prevented any more runs from scoring.

Meanwhile, the Lancers went ahead for good with two runs in the bottom of the second inning. Gor scored on a wild pitch and freshman CF Jordan Monroe (Corona, CA/Santiago HS) hit a sacrifice fly.

In the bottom of the fourth, CBU exploded for five runs and a 7-1 lead. Wigley had an RBI single and freshman 3B Kevin Wright (Corona, CA/Ontario HS) hit a two-run double down the left-field line.

Gor's home run made it 9-1 in the fifth inning, and a pair of Toro errors helped make it 11-1 before the inning ended.

CBU's last run came in the bottom of the eighth as sophomore PH Bobby Alworth (Grand Junction, CO/Grand Junction HS/Otero JC) doubled home a run.

The Toros got two hits apiece from senior LF Jason Flores and junior 3B Ruben Salazar. Starting LHP Ryan Owen (0-1) lasted 3 1/3 innings and took the loss.

Next up for CSUDH is a road contest at Vanguard.