GNAC Baseball: Chico State Completes 4-Game Sweep of WOU

No. 5 nationally ranked Wildcats top Wolves 10-3 on Sunday.

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CHICO, Calif. - Four Chico State pitchers combined on a three-hitter as the Wildcats completed a four-game series sweep of Western Oregon with a 10-3 victory Sunday at Nettleton Stadium.

Starter Chris Bodishbaugh (3-1) allowed just three hits and two earned runs in five innings of work, and relievers Jason Gillard, Garrett Rieck, and Marcus Martinez combined on four hitless innings for the fifth-ranked Wildcats, now 23-5 on the season.

Western Oregon fell to 6-12 on the season.

Daniel Code was 2-for-4 with three RBI, and Robby Scott went 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBI to lead the Chico State offense.

Lorin Nakgawa also notched a pair of hits, including a double and an RBI-single.

WOU starter Griffin Webb (2-1) absorbed the loss after allowing four runs – three of them earned – on five hits in four-plus innings of work.

Three Western Oregon errors led to five unearned runs for the Wildcats.

Western Oregon scored three times in the fourth to take its only lead of the weekend.

Bryan Stone and Kevin Corrigan singled to start the inning, and Bodishbaugh plunked Coubi Jiles to load the bases.

Bodishbaugh fumbled Tony Jones’ comebacker and then threw it by Aaron Demuth at first base, allowing two runs to come around to score.

But the Wildcats starter limited the damage by allowing only Pat Kelly’s sacrifice fly after that, and Western Oregon had a 3-2 lead.

The lead did not last. Chico State tied the game in the bottom-half of the inning thanks to Code’s leadoff double and Carl Fairburn’s RBI-grounder.

The Wildcats took the lead for good in the fifth when Casey Smyth reached on an error and eventually scored on Robby Scott’s squeeze bunt that turned into a base hit and put the Wildcats in front 4-3.

Chico State broke the game open with six runs in the sixth. Demuth singled to start the rally; Fairburn drew a walk, and Nakagawa singled home Demuth.

Jesus Luna was hit by a pitch to load the bases, and Smyth drew a walk to plate another run.

Farmer’s ground ball plated another run. The Wildcats added three more runs on a Scott ground ball and Code’s two-run single to increase their lead to 10-3.

No one had more than one hit for the Wolves, who totaled only three singles in the ball game.

Ben Shivers was the most effective pitcher for the visitors, throwing 2.1 innings and giving up just one hit.

Western Oregon will return home for final’s week, and then head back to California for a four-game series March 24th-26th at Cal State Stanislaus.

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