Box Score | POMONA, Calif. – To end an impressive week of home games at Scolinos Field, the Cal Poly Pomona baseball team defeated Dixie State with a walk-off 6-5 win in 10 innings.
With the bases loaded and one out, designated hitter
Nick Cooksey drove a single into right field to score
David Armendariz for the winning run. Now with four victories of one-run margins, CPP improves to 6-0 in the young 2014 season.
The Broncos will start conference play Friday against defending California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) champion Cal State Monterey Bay. First pitch at Scolinos Field is set for 2 p.m.
CPP started this past week with a walk-off win Monday in the home opener against Point Loma Nazarene. The team's momentum carried into the three-game set with Dixie State as the Broncos handed the Red Storm their first three losses of the year.
Dixie broke through for three early runs against CPP freshman starter
Nicholas Smith. Donald Glover, who finished the day with three hits, knocked a two-RBI double to extend DSC's lead to 3-0 in the top of the second.
The Broncos rallied right back with three runs in the bottom of the same inning. That frame featured a bit of everything, from a manufactured run in Armendariz's sacrifice fly to smart baserunning by Matt Muñoz and
Trevor Magno.
Chris Carlson capped it off with an RBI single to tie the game.
CPP captured its first lead of the contest in the fourth inning, when Armendariz launched a two-run homerun over the leftfield fence. It marked the Broncos' first home of the year.
Making his first apperance of 2014, sophomore
Cody Ponce cruised the middle innings in relief duty. The Upland native finished with 5.1 innings of scoreless ball, scattering five hits and striking out six.
With CPP ahead 5-4 heading into the bottom of the ninth, the Broncos turned the ball over to closer
J.J. Franklin. Dixie managed to score an unearned run to send the game into extra innings.
The Broncos' offense came alive in the bottom of the 10th though after Armendariz knocked the first pitch of the frame into leftfield for a single. A couple of hit batters helped load the bases later in the inning and after the Red Storm went to the bullpen for a pitching change once again, Cooksey drove in the game-winning single off of Mitchell Franek.
Armendariz finished the game with a 2-for-4 effort at the plate while Franklin picked up his first win of the season.