Sunday, April 13
San Luis Obispo, CA
1:00 PM
25-9, 14-1
5
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Hawai'i
24-10, 10-8
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Hawai'i
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0
0
0
2
0
0
0
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5
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Cal Poly
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0
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3
2
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X
5
10
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Torres, Jake (1-2)
L: Cooper Walls (2-2)
Batting:
2B: Kamana Nahaku 1
RBI: Shunsuke Sakaino 1 ; Xaige Lancaster 1
SF: Shunsuke Sakaino 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Kamana Nahaku 1 ; Xaige Lancaster 1
SB: Matthew Miura 1
HBP: Kamana Nahaku 1
Batting:
RBI: Vachini, Dante 1 ; Fenn, Ryan 1 ; Castellon, Nate 1 ; Downing, Jake 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Collins, Jack 1 ; Murray Jr., Casey 1 ; Kordic, Dylan 1 ; Hoiland, Cam 1 ; Downing, Jake 1
Game Leaders
Hitting
AB
4
R
0
H
2
RBI
0
AB
4
R
0
H
1
RBI
1
AB
4
R
1
H
1
RBI
0
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Photo by: Owen Main | Cal Poly Athletics
Mustangs Take Hawai’i Series with Record-Breaking Crowd in Attendance
4/13/2025 6:00:00 PM | Baseball
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Cal Poly's top three batters in the starting lineup all extended their double-digit hitting streaks and Jake Torres pitched 4 1/3 scoreless innings in relief for his first win of the season as the Mustangs clinched their Big West Conference baseball series Sunday with a 5-2 victory over Hawai'i.
The two-games-to-one set in favor of Cal Poly set a new Baggett Stadium attendance record for a three-game series as Sunday's crowd of 3,017, No. 5 in the record book for a single game, lifted the total number of weekend fans to 8,727. That eclipsed the old mark of 8,585 when defending national champion and No. 1-ranked Cal State Fullerton came to San Luis Obispo in 2005.
In successfully overcoming a deficit for the 12th time in its 25 victories this season, Cal Poly improved to 25-9 overall and, at 14-1, maintained its one-game lead over UC Irvine (13-2). The Anteaters defeated host UC Davis 13-2 on Sunday.
"We have a good offensive team. They work well together. The majority of the starting nine can do a number of things — play small ball, execute in certain situations, things like that," 23rd-year Mustang head coach Larry Lee said of his squad's come-from-behind abilities.
"We're just trying to score a run an inning, trying to get players in scoring position as soon as possible and give our guys a chance to drive them in," Lee added. "We're hitting with confidence ever since week three of the season and that's been really evident in the majority of our wins.
"We're usually in double digits in hits and usually score in multiple innings and have had a lot of innings where we score multiple runs, not just two or three but four, five, six or seven," Lee said. "That's a sign of a stressful lineup when the opponent comes at you. It's been good."
For the sixth time this season, every position player in the Mustangs' starting lineup produced at least one hit.
Third baseman Alejandro Garza extended his hitting streak to 17 games — one shy of reaching the top 10 in the Mustang record book — with a pair of singles while leadoff hitter and left fielder Dante Vachini has hits in 11 straight games after his single up the middle tied the game at 2-2 in the fifth inning.
Second baseman Ryan Fenn snapped the draw with a single to center field, giving him hits in 12 straight contests.
After the 1-5 start to the season, Cal Poly's 24-4 mark has been fueled by confident players who are hitting .338 with 75 doubles and 35 home runs, averaging 8.5 runs and 12.4 hits a game, and also by the defense, which has committed just 18 errors in those 28 contests for a .983 fielding percentage.
"There's enough of them who are confident in each particular game where they feel comfortable against a particular type of pitcher and our hitters feed off each other," said Lee.
"But what wins a lot of our ballgames also is our defense," he added. "We're playing a high level of defense out there and we're not giving our opponents any extra passes due to positioning or errors. That's been a big part of our being successful."
Torres relieved Mustang starter Ethan Marmie with two outs and a runner at third base in the fifth inning after Hawai'i had scored the first two runs of the game.
Matthew Miura lined out to left field to end the threat and Torres (1-2) went on to earn the victory by allowing just two hits with one walk and four strikeouts over 4 1/3 innings.
Seeking his fifth win of the year, Marmie retired the first 10 Rainbow Warrior batters of the game — including four consecutive strikeouts — before giving up a single and a walk in the fourth and allowing two runs on a pair of hits, a walk, a wild pitch, and a sacrifice fly in the fifth.
Held scoreless on one hit in the first four innings, Cal Poly quickly erased Hawaii's 2-0 lead with a three-spot off freshman right-hander Cooper Walls (2-2) in the bottom of the fifth.
Five Mustang singles by right fielder Dylan Kordic, designated hitter Cam Hoiland, first baseman Jake Downing, Vachini and Fenn accounted for the trio of runs.
Cal Poly added two more runs in the sixth for a 5-2 cushion. Catcher Jack Collins and center fielder Casey Murray Jr. both singled and, with two outs, shortstop Nate Castellon singled to left field, scoring Collins. The throw back to the infield was thrown away at third base, allowing Murray to score as well.
With 10 hits, Cal Poly reached double-digit hits for the 22nd time in its last 27 games, led by Garza with two singles. He now has 19 multiple-hit games this season, including seven of his last eight, and during the hitting streak has a .413 batting average (31-for-75) with nine doubles, his first home run as a Mustang (in Friday's 10-inning 4-2 Hawai'i win) and 12 RBIs.
Hawai'i was held to five hits by five different players. Left fielder Kamana Nahaku had the only extra-base hit of the game, a double leading off the fifth inning.
Cal Poly has won 24 of its last 28 games after a 1-5 start and is 13-4 at home this season. The Mustangs still have their 11-game winning streak on the road intact and inched up their RPI to No. 17 with Sunday's win.
Cal Poly, which had never won more than four games to start a Big West season, is halfway through the 2025 slate with just one loss in 15 conference contests.
"We have a lot of work still to do," said Lee. "Halfway through, it feels great. We're playing well and we're winning games. We should have won Friday night and didn't finish that game.
"This week started the three-game gauntlet of Hawaii, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Irvine," Lee added, alluding to the fourth-place Rainbow Warriors, the defending conference champion Gauchos and the second-place Anteaters.
"We will just try to continue to get better and, the more exposure and more situations that they can experience, our players feel at ease when those situations continue to show up."
Cal Poly wraps up an eight-game homestand Tuesday with a 5 p.m. non-conference contest against Santa Clara. The Mustangs are 6-0 so far in midweek games.
The two-games-to-one set in favor of Cal Poly set a new Baggett Stadium attendance record for a three-game series as Sunday's crowd of 3,017, No. 5 in the record book for a single game, lifted the total number of weekend fans to 8,727. That eclipsed the old mark of 8,585 when defending national champion and No. 1-ranked Cal State Fullerton came to San Luis Obispo in 2005.
In successfully overcoming a deficit for the 12th time in its 25 victories this season, Cal Poly improved to 25-9 overall and, at 14-1, maintained its one-game lead over UC Irvine (13-2). The Anteaters defeated host UC Davis 13-2 on Sunday.
"We have a good offensive team. They work well together. The majority of the starting nine can do a number of things — play small ball, execute in certain situations, things like that," 23rd-year Mustang head coach Larry Lee said of his squad's come-from-behind abilities.
"We're just trying to score a run an inning, trying to get players in scoring position as soon as possible and give our guys a chance to drive them in," Lee added. "We're hitting with confidence ever since week three of the season and that's been really evident in the majority of our wins.
"We're usually in double digits in hits and usually score in multiple innings and have had a lot of innings where we score multiple runs, not just two or three but four, five, six or seven," Lee said. "That's a sign of a stressful lineup when the opponent comes at you. It's been good."
For the sixth time this season, every position player in the Mustangs' starting lineup produced at least one hit.
Third baseman Alejandro Garza extended his hitting streak to 17 games — one shy of reaching the top 10 in the Mustang record book — with a pair of singles while leadoff hitter and left fielder Dante Vachini has hits in 11 straight games after his single up the middle tied the game at 2-2 in the fifth inning.
Second baseman Ryan Fenn snapped the draw with a single to center field, giving him hits in 12 straight contests.
After the 1-5 start to the season, Cal Poly's 24-4 mark has been fueled by confident players who are hitting .338 with 75 doubles and 35 home runs, averaging 8.5 runs and 12.4 hits a game, and also by the defense, which has committed just 18 errors in those 28 contests for a .983 fielding percentage.
"There's enough of them who are confident in each particular game where they feel comfortable against a particular type of pitcher and our hitters feed off each other," said Lee.
"But what wins a lot of our ballgames also is our defense," he added. "We're playing a high level of defense out there and we're not giving our opponents any extra passes due to positioning or errors. That's been a big part of our being successful."
Torres relieved Mustang starter Ethan Marmie with two outs and a runner at third base in the fifth inning after Hawai'i had scored the first two runs of the game.
Matthew Miura lined out to left field to end the threat and Torres (1-2) went on to earn the victory by allowing just two hits with one walk and four strikeouts over 4 1/3 innings.
Seeking his fifth win of the year, Marmie retired the first 10 Rainbow Warrior batters of the game — including four consecutive strikeouts — before giving up a single and a walk in the fourth and allowing two runs on a pair of hits, a walk, a wild pitch, and a sacrifice fly in the fifth.
Held scoreless on one hit in the first four innings, Cal Poly quickly erased Hawaii's 2-0 lead with a three-spot off freshman right-hander Cooper Walls (2-2) in the bottom of the fifth.
Five Mustang singles by right fielder Dylan Kordic, designated hitter Cam Hoiland, first baseman Jake Downing, Vachini and Fenn accounted for the trio of runs.
Cal Poly added two more runs in the sixth for a 5-2 cushion. Catcher Jack Collins and center fielder Casey Murray Jr. both singled and, with two outs, shortstop Nate Castellon singled to left field, scoring Collins. The throw back to the infield was thrown away at third base, allowing Murray to score as well.
With 10 hits, Cal Poly reached double-digit hits for the 22nd time in its last 27 games, led by Garza with two singles. He now has 19 multiple-hit games this season, including seven of his last eight, and during the hitting streak has a .413 batting average (31-for-75) with nine doubles, his first home run as a Mustang (in Friday's 10-inning 4-2 Hawai'i win) and 12 RBIs.
Hawai'i was held to five hits by five different players. Left fielder Kamana Nahaku had the only extra-base hit of the game, a double leading off the fifth inning.
Cal Poly has won 24 of its last 28 games after a 1-5 start and is 13-4 at home this season. The Mustangs still have their 11-game winning streak on the road intact and inched up their RPI to No. 17 with Sunday's win.
Cal Poly, which had never won more than four games to start a Big West season, is halfway through the 2025 slate with just one loss in 15 conference contests.
"We have a lot of work still to do," said Lee. "Halfway through, it feels great. We're playing well and we're winning games. We should have won Friday night and didn't finish that game.
"This week started the three-game gauntlet of Hawaii, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Irvine," Lee added, alluding to the fourth-place Rainbow Warriors, the defending conference champion Gauchos and the second-place Anteaters.
"We will just try to continue to get better and, the more exposure and more situations that they can experience, our players feel at ease when those situations continue to show up."
Cal Poly wraps up an eight-game homestand Tuesday with a 5 p.m. non-conference contest against Santa Clara. The Mustangs are 6-0 so far in midweek games.
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