Saturday, February 18
San Luis Obispo, CA
4 p.m.
1-1
4
vs
15
Missouri State
1-1
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
R
H
E
Missouri State
0
2
0
0
7
0
2
4
0
15
17
0
Cal Poly
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
4
6
0
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Thompson,B. (1-0)
L: Weston, Travis (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Greer,M. 2 ; Hull,M. 1 ; Stewart,Z. 2 ; Gollert,T. 3
HR: Kelly,C. 1
RBI: Rodriguez,N. 1 ; Nivens,S. 1 ; Greer,M. 2 ; Kelly,C. 2 ; Stewart,Z. 4 ; Robertson,D. 1 ; Gollert,T. 3
Base Running:
RUNS: Rodriguez,N. 1 ; Nivens,S. 1 ; Cratic,C. 1 ; Greer,M. 2 ; Kelly,C. 3 ; Hull,M. 4 ; Stewart,Z. 1 ; Robertson,D. 1 ; Gollert,T. 1
HBP: Kelly,C. 1
Batting:
2B: Casillas, Aaron 1 ; Sagouspe, Tanner 1
HR: Villegas, Collin 1
RBI: Steels, Jake 1 ; Yorke, Joe 1 ; Villegas, Collin 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Steels, Jake 1 ; Villegas, Collin 1 ; Sagouspe, Tanner 1 ; Brown, Kemet 1
SB: Steels, Jake 1
HBP: Stafford, Ryan 2
Game Leaders
AB
4
R
0
H
2
RBI
0
AB
5
R
1
H
1
RBI
1
AB
3
R
1
H
1
RBI
2
AB
3
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
Players Mentioned
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Collin Villegas hit his sixth home run as a Mustang on Saturday night with a two-run shot in the first inning, but Cal Poly fell to Missouri State 15-4, setting up a rubber game Sunday at 1.
Photo by: Photo by Connor Lau
Missouri State Evens Series Against Cal Poly with 15-4 Victory
2/18/2023 8:23:00 PM | Baseball
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Missouri State exploded for 17 hits, including eight doubles and a home run, and breezed to a 15-4 victory over Cal Poly on Saturday, evening up the three-game non-conference baseball series at a game apiece.
The game, played before 1,877 fans at Baggett Stadium, was eerily similar to Friday night's contest with the exception of who was the winning team.
On Friday, Missouri State scored twice in the first inning on a two-run home run. So did Cal Poly on Saturday. The Mustangs produced a big inning to turn Friday's game around with nine runs in the fifth inning. The Bears countered with a seven-run fifth-inning uprising Saturday.
Rubber game of the season-opening series between the pair of 1-1 teams will be played Sunday at 1 o'clock.
Catcher Collin Villegas belted a 2-2 Brandt Thompson pitch over the wall in left field to give Cal Poly its early 2-0 lead in the opening frame. Missouri State bounced back with two runs in the second inning and shattered the deadlock with its seven-run fifth-inning rally highlighted by two-run doubles off the bats of Mason Greer and Zack Stewart.
The Bears added two more runs in the seventh, including a leadoff home run by Cody Kelly, and four in the eighth, Stewart capping the uprising with a three-run double.
After scoring twice in the first inning on four hits, Cal Poly was limited to just one hit over the next seven frames, a bloop single to left by Aaron Casillas. The Mustangs finally generated some offense in the ninth, scoring twice as Tanner Sagouspe doubled, Kemet Brown walked and both came home on RBI groundouts by Jake Steels and Joe Yorke.
Stewart, Taeg Gollert and Nick Rodriguez each had three of Missouri State's 17 hits. Gollert doubled three times, driving in three runs, and Stewart and Greer each added two doubles, Stewart finishing with four RBIs.
Cal Poly's six hits included a single and double by Casillas plus the home run by Villegas, his sixth as a Mustang. He homered four times a year ago.
Thompson (1-0) tossed five innings for the win, allowing two runs and four hits with four strikeouts. The loss went to Mustang southpaw Travis Weston (0-1) despite striking out nine Bears, two shy of his career high. Weston gave up six runs and six hits over 4 2/3 innings. He was followed by five relievers, Owen Dueck and Holden Garcia each pitching a scoreless frame.
College of San Mateo transfer Ryan Baum, 7-3 with a 1.60 ERA over two seasons with the Bulldogs, will toe the rubber for Cal Poly in Sunday's matchup of right-handers, opposed by Hayden Minton, a senior who compiled a 1-7 record as a freshman and sophomore combined for the Bears before playing his junior season at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, and posting a 7-1 record in 10 starts with a 3.91 ERA.
The game, played before 1,877 fans at Baggett Stadium, was eerily similar to Friday night's contest with the exception of who was the winning team.
On Friday, Missouri State scored twice in the first inning on a two-run home run. So did Cal Poly on Saturday. The Mustangs produced a big inning to turn Friday's game around with nine runs in the fifth inning. The Bears countered with a seven-run fifth-inning uprising Saturday.
Rubber game of the season-opening series between the pair of 1-1 teams will be played Sunday at 1 o'clock.
Catcher Collin Villegas belted a 2-2 Brandt Thompson pitch over the wall in left field to give Cal Poly its early 2-0 lead in the opening frame. Missouri State bounced back with two runs in the second inning and shattered the deadlock with its seven-run fifth-inning rally highlighted by two-run doubles off the bats of Mason Greer and Zack Stewart.
The Bears added two more runs in the seventh, including a leadoff home run by Cody Kelly, and four in the eighth, Stewart capping the uprising with a three-run double.
After scoring twice in the first inning on four hits, Cal Poly was limited to just one hit over the next seven frames, a bloop single to left by Aaron Casillas. The Mustangs finally generated some offense in the ninth, scoring twice as Tanner Sagouspe doubled, Kemet Brown walked and both came home on RBI groundouts by Jake Steels and Joe Yorke.
Stewart, Taeg Gollert and Nick Rodriguez each had three of Missouri State's 17 hits. Gollert doubled three times, driving in three runs, and Stewart and Greer each added two doubles, Stewart finishing with four RBIs.
Cal Poly's six hits included a single and double by Casillas plus the home run by Villegas, his sixth as a Mustang. He homered four times a year ago.
Thompson (1-0) tossed five innings for the win, allowing two runs and four hits with four strikeouts. The loss went to Mustang southpaw Travis Weston (0-1) despite striking out nine Bears, two shy of his career high. Weston gave up six runs and six hits over 4 2/3 innings. He was followed by five relievers, Owen Dueck and Holden Garcia each pitching a scoreless frame.
College of San Mateo transfer Ryan Baum, 7-3 with a 1.60 ERA over two seasons with the Bulldogs, will toe the rubber for Cal Poly in Sunday's matchup of right-handers, opposed by Hayden Minton, a senior who compiled a 1-7 record as a freshman and sophomore combined for the Bears before playing his junior season at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, and posting a 7-1 record in 10 starts with a 3.91 ERA.
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