Cal Poly Falls to Cal State Bakersfield, 3-1, in Series Opener

Friday, May 27

Bakersfield, CA

6 pm

27-24

CSU Bakersfield

31-22

Cal Poly

Cal St. Bakersfield

Cal Poly Falls to Cal State Bakersfield, 3-1, in Series Opener

5/27/2011 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Cal State Bakersfield scored twice in the first inning and held on for a 3-1 victory over Cal Poly in the opener of a non-conference baseball series Friday night at Hardt Field.

The win improved Cal State Bakersfield's record to 31-22 and was the Runners' second in eight tries against the Mustangs. Cal State Bakersfield is fielding a baseball team for the third year.

Cal Poly fell to 27-24. The Mustangs had won six of their last seven games.

Cal Poly failed to collect more than one hit in an inning, mustering just five overall.

The Mustangs scored their lone run in the sixth inning. Evan Busby drew a leadoff walk, DJ Gentile singled to advance Busby to third and Mitch Haniger's sacrifice fly to center field scored Busby.

Cal Poly wasted a two-out double by Bobby Crocker in the third inning, a one-out single by Gentile in the fourth, a two-out single by Jimmy Allen in the fifth and a two-out single by Matt Jensen in the eighth.

Gentile (pictured above) had two of Cal Poly's five hits.

Cal State Bakersfield parlayed three singles and one Mustang error into a pair of runs, one unearned, in the first inning and, after Cal Poly closed the gap to 2-1 in the top of the sixth, restored the two-run cushion in the bottom of the sixth on Anthony Letourneau's RBI single to left field.

Cal State Bakersfield also had five hits in the game, all singles by five different players.

Junior right-hander Tommy Hoenshell (7-7) went the distance for the win, scattering five hits with two walks and one strikeout.

Mason Radeke (8-4), also a junior right-hander, suffered the loss, walking one and striking out four in seven innings. Jeff Johnson pitched a scoreless eighth inning.

Second game of the series will be played Saturday night at 6 with Cal Poly to send senior right-hander Steven Fischback (7-2, 3.27 ERA) to the mound against Cal State Bakersfield junior southpaw Jonathan Montoya (7-5, 3.74 ERA).