Good Pitching Yields Two Baseball Wins for Cal Poly Pomona As Toros Fall
CSUDH loses 9-0, 7-1 decisions
March 5, 2005

Courtesy Cal Poly Pomona Sports Information Office

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POMONA Cal Poly Pomona’s baseball team got a pair of outstanding pitching performances and picked up two big California Collegiate Athletic Associations wins Saturday afternoon.

Taylor Wilding tossed a three-hit shutout in the opener and Luis Carreras allowed only three hits and one run in the nightcap to lead Cal Poly Pomona to 9-0 and 7-1 wins over Cal State Dominguez Hills at Scolinos Field.

Cal Poly Pomona (9-8, 7-4) snapped a three-game losing streak with the doubleheader sweep over the Toros (6-10, 2-7). The two teams will now complete the three-game series on Sunday. The series was supposed to begin on Friday, but that game was postponed by rain.

The Broncos won the opener behind another dominating performance by Wilding, who has now won his last four decisions. Wilding allowed only three singles and did not walk a batter while striking out 13. He improved to 4-1 this season and lowered his team earned run average to 1.77.

Cal State Dominguez Hills starter Chris Borchers matched Wilding for three innings, but the Broncos broke through with three runs in the fourth inning and four more in the fifth to take control. Anthony Esquer drove in the first run of the game with a groundout that scored Jake Mendrin. Chase Stroupe followed with a two-run single to give the Broncos a 3-0 lead.

Cal Poly Pomona broke the game open in the fifth. A run-scoring single by Mendrin, a run-scoring triple by Jarrod Allen and a run-scoring groundout by Marc Evans highlighted the inning.

A sacrifice fly by Andy Gonzales and a run-scoring double by Greg Denning completed the scoring in the eighth inning.

Carreras picked up where Wilding left off in the opener. He blanked the Toros through the first five innings while the Broncos were building a 6-0 lead.

The Broncos got off to a quick start in the nightcap, jumping out to a 3-0 first-inning lead on a three-run home run by Allen, his second of the season. The Broncos added three more in the third thanks to a run-scoring double by Mendrin and a two-run triple by Esquer.

The Toros scored their lone run in the sixth inning when Claudio Gutierrez was hit by a pitch, moved to second base on a sacrifice by Chris Martinez and scored on a run-scoring single by Jose Montes.

Matt Lopez singled in a run for the Broncos in the bottom of the sixth to complete the scoring.