TURLOCK, Calif. – Ending its regular season on a high note, the Cal State San Marcos baseball team (27-17, 26-13 CCAA) secured the series split against Stanislaus State (16-26-1, 12-22 CCAA) with an 18-2 win in the finale on Sunday at Warrior Baseball Field.
 
TOP PERFORMERS
Garrett Teunissen – 3-for-6 | 3 RBIs | 2 R | 2 SB | 1 2B | 1 SAC
Phoenix Sommay – 3-for-6 | 3 R | 2 RBIs | 1 BB
Ruben Cedillo – 3-for-3 | 4 R | 3 BB | 1 R | 1 HR | 1 SB
Emilio Luna – 3-for-4 | 2 RBIs | 1 R | 2 SAC
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• CSUSM took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning with an RBI single through the right side by Ethan Rivera.
• The Warriors matched the Cougars in the bottom of the first. After a leadoff triple by Valdivia, he scored on a CSUSM fielding error to even the game.
• Stanislaus took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the second inning on a Leonesio RBI groundout to third that scored Nix.
• A sacrifice fly to center by Rivera scored Teunissen in the top of the third and evened the game at 2-all.
• CSUSM went up 5-2 in the top of the fourth on an RBI sacrifice bunt by Luna, an RBI single to short by Teunissen and a double steal that scored Cedillo.
• The Cougars took a commanding 9-2 lead in the top of the sixth with a one-out solo shot to left by Cedillo, an RBI bunt single by Teunissen, an RBI single to left by Cameron Mahaffy and a bases-loaded walk by Bradley Chesterton.
• CSUSM added three insurance runs and went up 12-2 in the top of the seventh with an RBI single by Sommay, a bases-loaded catcher's interference call that scored Sommay and Chesterton's second bases-loaded walk of the game that scored Mahaffy.
• The Cougars tacked on six more runs in the top of the ninth with an RBI single by Jake Adams, a two-run shot by Evan Scalley, an RBI single by Luna, a bases-loaded walk by Sommay and an RBI fielder's choice by Teunissen to go up 18-2.

 
QUICK HITS

• Cougar reliever Nolan Long (4-1) earned the win after striking out three while allowing just two hits and two walks in 4.0 innings.
• Warrior starter Trent Huff (0-7) took the loss after allowing five runs on five hits, two hit-by-pitches and a walk in 3.0 innings.
• Sommay extended his reached-base streak to 39 games – the third longest in program history. He's now four games away from tying the CSUSM program record held by Ray Patchen (2015) and Trent Jemmett (2011).
• CSUSM's 16-run win over Stan State was the largest margin of victory by either team in the all-time series while the Cougars' 18 runs were the most ever scored in the series.
• This was the Cougars' fourth series split of the season and the first against the Warriors since 2018.
• CSUSM did not lose a single four-game series during the regular season and saw its lone series loss come in a rain-shortened, three-game series at Cal State East Bay.
• CSUSM's 19 hits were the most in a game this season.
• The Cougars drew nine walks, tying the season high.
• Teunissen posted his team-leading 22nd multi-hit game and eighth three-hit performance of the year.

 
UP NEXT
With its regular season out of the way, CSUSM will have a bye for the final weekend of CCAA play before heading to the CCAA Tournament at Cal Poly Pomona on May 8-11.

Now tied for first place with a .667 winning percentage, the Cougars will have to wait and see what seed they receive due to Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State Monterey Bay still having four games left to play, but they can finish no worse than third.