Toros Outslug Cal Poly Pomona Baseball Team
Cal State Dominguez Hills evens series with 13-6 win
March 7, 2003

Courtesy Cal Poly Pomona Sports Information Office

Complete Box Score

POMONA -- Cal State Dominguez Hills was on the long end of a 13-6 baseball decision against Cal Poly Pomona Friday at Scolinos Field.

The Toros got first-inning home runs from Tony Marquez and Ruben Salazar and jumped out to a 5-0 lead after two innings. Cal Poly Pomona scored three times in the third inning to get close, but the Toros scored three runs in the fifth and sixth innings to break the game open.

Cal Poly Pomona (4-17, 3-11) will meet Cal State Dominguez Hills (11-9, 7-7) in a doubleheader in Carson on Saturday beginning at noon.

The Toros collected 16 hits, including a pair of home runs by Marquez and one home run by Salazar. The Toros also had four doubles and one triple.

The Broncos had 14 hits, but only one extra base hit – a double by Anthony Gonzales (Sr., Whittier, Santa Ana JC).

The Toros jumped on Cal Poly Pomona starter Michael Curcie (Jr., Canyon Lake, UC Riverside) for five runs in the first two innings. Marquez belted a two-run home run to get the Toros on the board and Salazar followed with a solo home run one out later to give Cal State Dominguez Hills a 3-0 advantage in the first inning.

Eric Pringle had a sacrifice fly in the second inning to make it 4-0 and a run-scoring single by Jason Flores made it 5-0 and knocked Curcie from the game.

Cal Poly Pomona scored three times in the third inning to get close. Anthony Gonzales doubled in Andy Gonzales (So., Whittier, California HS) with the first run, a groundout by Matt Stevens (So., Riverside, Rubidoux HS) drove in James Waninger (Fr., Fullerton, Fullerton HS) with the second run and Anthony Gonzales later scored on an errant pickoff attempt at third base by catcher Efren Esparza.

The Toros broke the game open with three-run outbursts in the fifth and sixth innings that extended their lead to 11-3. Joe Gevas and Frank Perez singled in runs in the fifth inning and David Keesee completed the rally with a run-scoring double. In the sixth, Flores tripled in a run, Gevas doubled in a run and Gevas later came around to score on a wild pitch.

The Broncos scored twice in the seventh on a two-run single by Kenneth Galindo (Jr., Walnut, Mt. San Antonio College), but the Toros got two back in the eighth inning on a leadoff home run by Marquez and a run-scoring single by Keesee.

Cal Poly Pomona completed the scoring in the ninth on a run-scoring single by Chase Stroupe (Fr., San Clemente, San Clemente HS).

Stroupe and Anthony Gonzales had three hits each for the Broncos.