CCAA Championship Tournament Schedule
May 5-7 • Arrowhead Credit Union Park
San Bernardino, California
Tournament Participants
1. Sonoma State
2. Chico State
3. Cal State San Bernardino
4. UC San Diego
Tournament History:
2003 CCAA Championship Tournament
2002 CCAA Championship Tournament
2001 CCAA Championship Tournament
2000 CCAA Championship Tournament
1999 CCAA Championship Tournament
Tournament schedule:
Wednesday, May 5
Game 1 - (4) UC San Diego 6, (1) Sonoma State 2
Game 2 - (2) Chico State 13, (3) Cal State San Bernardino 1
Thursday, May 6
Game 3 - Sonoma State 8, Cal State San Bernardino 5 (CSSB eliminated).
Game 4 - Chico State 11, UC San Diego 4
Game 5 - Sonoma State 6,. UC San Diego 2 (UCSD eliminated)
Friday, May 7
Game 6 - Chico State 8 vs. Sonoma State, 7
Chico State wins CCAA Championship
Brian Lucas named tournament MVP
Game 6 boxscore
(May 7) SAN BERNARDINO – Chico State, the only California Collegiate Athletic Association team to play in all six CCAA championship baseball tournaments, captured its second CCAA title today with an 8-7 victory over Sonoma State at Arrowhead Credit Union Park.
The Wildcats, 39-10-1, won three straight games to earn the title and now await a bid on Sunday to compete in the NCAA D-II West Regional at a site to be determined. Sonoma State, 37-26, also has a shot at a regional bid.
Jonathan Shepard's seventh-inning home run to left field, his sixth of the season, proved to be the difference in the game, giving the Wildcats an 8-5 lead, which the Seawolves narrowed with solo runs in the eighth and ninth innings.
With one out in the ninth, Sonoma's C.J. Larsen tripled and came home on a sacrifice fly by Adam Rachlin. Aaron O'Dell followed with a single, however, Wildcat closer Nick Burger fanned Nate Durham-Hammer to end the game and record his 13th save.
The victory went to Wildcat reliever Robert Anaya (4-0), who relieved starter Mike Jones in the sixth. Sonoma reliever Noah Sweeters (2-3), in relief of starter Matt Means, took the loss.
Sonoma State, which lost three of four games to Chico in the regular season, jumped out to a 3-0 lead off Jones, but Chico State tied the game in the bottom of the third on a run-scoring double by Joseph Ramos, a wild pitch, and an infield groundout.
Durham-Hammer belted a solo home run in the fourth to put the Seawolves up by one, but Chico battled back again to knot the score at 4-4 when Shepard led off with a single and later scored on a infield grounder by Scott Thomson.
The Wildcats took their first lead of the game in the bottom of the sixth with two runs. Thomson led off the inning with a single, advanced to second on a balk and scored on a throwing error by the pitcher. Ryan Mathes doubled in tournament MVP Brain Lucas for a 7-5 Chico advantage.
It was another feather in the cap for Wildcat head coach Lindsay Meggs, who has guided Chico State to two national titles, four West Region titles, and six regular-season conference titles over the last 10 years.
Five Wildcats were named to the CCAA All-Tournament Team: Lucas, the MVP, pitcher Brian Kroll, second baseman Jeff Walker, outfielder Ryan Mathes, designatted hitter Ryan Wulfert, and at larger selection Jonathan Shepard.
Also named to the all-tourney team were four Sonoma State players – relief pitcher
Aaron Damm, catcher Evan Anderson, second baseman Aaron O’Dell, and outfielder
Brandon Burgess. Also earning all-tournament honors were outfielder Daron Roberts of
Host Cal State San Bernardino and Jose Navarro, pitcher from UC San Diego.
SONOMA STATE 021 110 011 7 13 2
CHICO STATE 003 112 10X 8 11 0
SSU – Means, Sweeters (6), Romero (8) and Anderson. CS – Jones, Anaya (6), Burger (8)
And Weedon, McCabe (6). HR – Durham-Hammer (SS); Shepard (CS). 3B – Daines (SS);
Larsen (SS). 2B – O’Dell (SS); Ramos (CS); Lucas (CS); Mathes (CS). WP – Anaya (4-0)
LP – Sweeters (3-2). Time: 2:57. Attendance: 160
Sonoma State eliminates UC San Diego
Game 5 boxscore
(May 6) SAN BERNARDINO – Defending champion Sonoma State advanced to the championship game of the California Collegiate Athletic Association baseball tournament for the fourth time with a 6-2 victory Thursday night over UC San Diego in the semifinals.
The Seawolves, three-time CCAA champs in the five-year history of the tournament, will face Chico State, which knocked off UCSD in an earlier game Thursday. Chico enters the title contest at noon with a 2-0 record in the tournament at Arrowhead Credit Union Park. Sonoma is 2-1 in the tourney, having lost its opener to the same Tritons on Wednesday. If Sonoma prevails, a second game will be played 45 minutes after completion of the first game.
The Seawolves got a superb performance from reliever Aaron Damm, who came on in the third inning after starting pitcher William Krout was hit in the face with a line drive and forced to leave the game. Damm then pitched 6.2 innings, giving up just two hits, one run and striking out nine Tritons to pick up his second win of the season.
Sonoma State touched up UCSD starter Rafael Bergstrom (6-6) for four runs in the fourth on a two-run double by Brandon Burgess, the CCAA Player of the Year. Tom Everidge plated Burgess with a triple to left center and came home on an error for a 4-1 SSU lead.
Burgess put an exclamation point on the win with a towering 425-foot homer to straightaway center field in the eighth, his 20th of the season. His three RBI in the game raised his 2004 total to 63.
Keith Albrecht and Damian Fante drove in the Tritons runs.
UCSD closes out its season, and first-ever post-season trip since moving up to Division II in 2000-01 with a record of 35-24.
UC SAN DIEGO 010 010 000 2 5 1
SONOMA STATE 000 400 11X 6 8 1
UC – Bergstrom, Lipetz (8) and Morehead. SS – Krout, Damm (3) and Anderson. HR – Burgess (SS). 3B – Everidge (SS). 2B – Morehead (SD), O’Dell (SS), Burgess (SS). WP – Damm (2-2). LP – Bergstrom (6-6).
Chico State advances to title game with 11-4 win over UC San Diego
Game 4 boxscore
(May 6) SAN BERNARDINO - Chico State, looking for its second California Collegiate Athletic Association baseball championship, scored seven unearned runs Thursday en route to an 11-4 victory over UC San Diego in the semifinals to advance to Friday's title game at noon.
The Wildcats, 38-19-1, will face the winner of the Sonoma State-UC San Diego elimination game. A second game, if necessary, will follow the first game.
Drew Carpenter went the distance on the mound for Chico State to earn his sixth victory of the season against one loss while Logan Boutillier was an unlucky starter for the Tritons, charged with all seven unearned runs coming on three errors by normally reliable second baseman Ricky Pincocchio.
Jonathan Shepard chipped in with an inside the park home run, his fifth roundtripper of the season.
Jeff Walker's two RBI double was the big blow in the fourth while Ryan Mathes drove in two runs in the seventh as Chico extended its lead to 11-2.
UC San Diego's record dipped to 35-23.
Keith Hernandez led the Tritons with three hits in Four at bats.
CHICO STATE 000 611 030 11 13 1
UC SAN DIEGO 100 100 011 4 9 5
CS - Carpenter and McCabe. SD - Boutilier, Allred (5), Dunkly (6), Smith (7) and Morehead, Anderson (8). HR - Shepard (CS). 2B - Walker (CS), Mathes (CS), Wulfert (CS), Thomson (CS), Hernandez (SD), Riddle (SD), Albrecht (SD). WP - Carpenter (5-1). LP - Boutilier (5-3.)
Sonoma State eliminate Coyotes, 8-5
Game 3 boxscore
(May 6) SAN BERNARDINO - Defending CCAA champion Sonoma State staved off elimination from the 2004 CCAA Baseball Championship Tournament Thursday with an 8-5 victory over Cal State San Bernardino, eliminating the host Coyotes from the tournament in the process.
The Seawolves, 36-25, advance to the 7 p.m. elimination game on Thursday night to face the loser of the UC San Diego-Chico State semifinal game at 3 p.m. The Coyotes' season ends at 30-26-1.
SSU pitcher Darren Sack improved his record to 8-3 by hurling 6.2 innings, allowing seven hits and four runs, two of which were earned. Joe Stemmler, 4-4, took the loss for the Coyotes, giving up six runs in four innings.
The Coyotes' Daron Roberts was the hitting star on the day, belting his 11th and 12th homers of the season and driving in three runs but it was not enough against the Seawolves.
Aaron O'Dell doubled and drove in two runs for Sonoma State. Six players had at least two hits in the 12-hit attack.
CSUSB Coach Don Parnell was ejected by home plate umpire Dennis Smythe in the fifth inning.
SONOMA STATE 032 100 020 8 12 1
SAN BERNARDINO 000 002 201 5 10 1
SS - Sack, Nunes (7) and Anderson. SB - Stemmler, Koshko (5), Boes (8) and Jimenez, Thornburg (9). HR - Roberts (SB) 2. 2B - O'Dell (SS), Everidge (SS), Bidwell (SS), Dixon (SB). 3B - Everidge (SS).
Chico State pummels Cal State San Bernardino, 13-1
Game 2 boxscore
(May 5) SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Right-hander Brian Kroll pitched seven innings of shutout ball Wednesday night and his Chico State teammates supplied the power with three home runs as the Wildcats pummeled Cal State San Bernardino, 13-1, in the nightcap of the California Collegiate Athletic Association Championship Tournament.
In the early game, No. 4 seed UC San Diego beat No. 1 seed Sonoma State 6-2. The Tritons and Wildcats will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday at Arrowhead Credit Union Park while the Coyotes and Seawolves face an elimination contest in the double-elimination tournament at 11 a.m. Another elimination game will be played at 7 p.m.
Jay Hyland hit his sixth homer of the season, a solo shot. Joseph Ramos hit a two-run homer In the fourth, part of an eight-run uprising against Coyotes starter Casey Mutter and reliever Danny Lambaren. Brian Lucas, the CCAA's Freshman of the Year, followed Ramos with a three-run blast as Chico State opened up an 11-0 advantage.
Aaron Rice, an all-CCAA first team pick, accounted for the only Coyotes run of the night with a tape-measure blast over the 410 foot center field fence off Wildcats reliever Nick Bryant in the top of the eighth.
SAN BERNARDINO 000 000 010 1 10 1
CHICO STATE 021 800 20x 13 15 3
SB - Mutter, Lambaren (4), Jones (8) and Jimenez. CS - Kroll, Bryant (8) and Weedon. HR
UC San Diego downs Sonoma State, 6-2
Game 1 boxscore
(May 5) SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- No. 4 seed UC San Diego scored five runs in the eighth inning Wednesday en route to a 6-2 victory over No. 1 seed Sonoma State before 181 fans at Arrowhead Credit Union Park on the first day of the California Collegiate Athletic Association Championship Tournament.
Chico State met Cal State San Bernardino in the late game.
Jose Navarro pitched eight innings, scattering seven hits for his sixth win of the season. Dan Barone took the loss for the Seawolves.
The Tritons, making their first post-season appearance since moving to Division II in 2000-01, will play in the championship semifinals at 3 p.m. Thursday. Sonoma State plays an elimination game with the loser of the late game at 11 a.m.
UCSD scored its five runs on three hits. The big blow was a two-run double by second baseman Ricky Pinocchio. The rally erased a 2-1 Sonoma State lead.
Pinocchio had two of the Tritons' eight hits while Colton Daines and Tom Everidge each had A pair of hits for the Seawolves.
UC SAN DIEGO 010 000 050 6 8 1
SONOMA STATE 000 002 000 2 9 1
SD - Navarro, Lipetz (9) and Morehead. SS - Barone, Sweeters (8), Romero (8) and Anderson. 2B - Pinocchio (SD), Burton (SD), Gomez (SD) O'Dell (SS).