ROHNERT PARK, Calif. – The Cal State San Marcos baseball team dropped both ends of Saturday's California Collegiate Athletics Association (CCAA) doubleheader at Sonoma State. The final scores were 10-3 and 8-0.
 
The Cougars fall to 12-12 on the season and 2-10 in conference play. The Seawolves move up to 10-8 overall and 7-7 in CCAA action.
 
Junior Colin Dvorak led CSUSM's offense, going 3-for-7 with a double.
 
The series finale between CSUSM and Sonoma is slated for Sunday, March 19 at 11 a.m.
 
GAME 1: SSU 10 – CSUSM 3
The Cougars tallied three runs on seven hits and committed two errors in the contest.
 
All three CSUSM runs came in the eighth inning. With one out and bases loaded, sophomore pinch hitter Mark Van Skike crushed a 2-RBI seeing-eye ground ball single through the left side to put the Cougars on the board. CSUSM's final run of the inning came on freshman pinch hitter Reed LaBar's ground out to third base.
 
The Seawolves knocked in five runs on three walks, two hits and two CSUSM errors in the third inning.  Sonoma added four more insurance runs on five hits in the sixth inning.
 
SSU's Haydon Turpin (4-1) got the win while sophomore Marc Vela (1-2) took the loss.
 
GAME 2: SSU 8 – CSUSM 0
The Cougars suffered their second shutout of the season despite accumulating six hits in the game.
 
In the first inning, Grant St. Martin knocked in SSU's first run on a RBI single to left field. Two frames later, he hit a solo homer the same direction to put the Seawolves up 2-0. Sonoma added two more runs in the fifth on a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly. The final four runs came in the sixth inning on Joshua Montelongo's RBI single before Trevor Abrams hit a three-run homer to left center.
 
CSUSM's best chance on scoring a run came in the third inning when Place hit a one-out single and Dvorak followed with a walk. A double steal put both runners in scoring position, but Sonoma got out of the jam with a strikeout and groundout to preserve the shutout.
 
Senior Taylor Ahearn (4-3) threw five innings, giving up four runs on nine hits while striking out five. SSU's Matt Hammonds (2-0) pitched the first five innings to earn the win and Ricky Clark came in for the final four to collect the save.