TURLOCK -- The middle of the order accounted for nine hits as the Warriors scattered 19 safeties to beat San Francisco State, 7-5, in 11 innings Friday afternoon.
Skippy Ferreria went 4-for-6,
Marcus Mastrobuoni had three hits and
Michael Chavarria was 2-for-5 as Cal State Stanislaus open the four-game series against the Gators with a win on the road. Stanislaus improved to 8-18 overall and 3-13 in conference play.
Together, the 3-4-5 batters of Mastrobuoni, Chavarria and Ferreria went 9-for-17. The bottom part of the lineup performed, too, with
James Heller going 3-for-5 and
Nick Ippolito 2-for-5.
The Warriors recorded a season-high 19 hits in the game, which followed last Saturday's 12-hit parade in the second game of the twinbill against Sonoma State.
Cal State Stanislaus used four singles in the 11th inning to finally push acoss two runs and held on for the win heading into Saturday's doubleheader in Turlock.
Mastrobuoni and Chavarria singled to start the inning before a Ferreria put to put both in scoring position. After a flyout,
Patrick Mulry singled in the go-ahead run, scoring Mastrobuoni. SF State elected to walk
James Heller to face
Nick Ippolito, but the sophomore shortstop reached on an infield single to plate Chavarria for the insurance run.
Aaron Godinez, who entered in the eighth, survived the final Gators inning to get the win. After giving up a leadoff single and a flyout, he induced a groundball doubleplay to end the game. In fact, in four innings of work, he got three doubleplay groundballs. In the end, Godinez went four innings and gave up a run on three hits. He had two strikeouts — the only two from the Warriors' pitchers — and walked one.
Stanislaus got a quality start from
Chris Senn, who went 6 1/3 innings and allowed three runs on seven hits.
San Francisco State (10-13, 9-8 CCAA) turned out 12 hits of its own as well in the offensive game. Chad Thurston went 3-for-5 to lead the Gators.
The Warriors will send
Nick Voumard and
Tyler Murphy to the mound for Saturday's twinbill, starting at 1 p.m. in Turlock.
