POMONA, Calif. – The Cal Poly Pomona baseball team put together their most dominant offensive performance of the season on Friday night, racking up 19 hits in a 14-4 victory over Cal State San Bernardino at Scolinos Field. With the win, the Broncos improve to 7-11 on the season and 4-5 in CCAA play, entering a three-way tie for fourth place in the conference standings.
The victory was head coach Randy Betten's 300th conference win at Cal Poly Pomona, becoming just the second coach in program history to reach the milestone. He is now just 24 away from tying coaching great John Scolinos at 324.
The Broncos wasted no time getting on the board, as Marco Malerba singled and later scored on an RBI hit from Anthony Gibbons in the first inning. After the Coyotes tied it up in the second, Malerba struck again, driving in a run in the bottom half to reclaim the lead at 2-1.
San Bernardino briefly evened the score in the third, but from there, it was all Broncos. The fourth inning opened the floodgates, with Brent Cota, Tyler Chaffee, and Beau Betten delivering run-scoring hits to fuel a five-run outburst. Chaffee's two-run single and Betten's two-run triple highlighted the frame as CPP took a commanding 7-2 lead.
Julian Angulo added to the offensive onslaught in the fifth, launching a three-run home run off the batter's eye in dead center, extending the lead to 10-2. The Broncos kept the pressure on, tacking on two more in the sixth with a two-run double from Sebastian Arguelles and adding two additional runs in the seventh on a sacrifice fly from Chaffee and another RBI double from Arguelles.
On the mound, freshman Anthony Cosme delivered a solid performance, battling through five innings while allowing two runs on ten hits with five strikeouts to pick up the first win of his collegiate career. Andrew Campbell followed with three innings of relief, surrendering just one earned run, before Joseph Romero closed things out with a perfect ninth in his season debut.
San Bernardino pushed across two runs in the eighth, but the outcome was never in doubt as the Broncos secured their seventh win of the season in convincing fashion. Malerba, Cota, Angulo, and Arguelles each recorded an impressive three hits on the night, while Pappas, Chaffee, and Betten each had two. The 14-run outburst marked the team's highest scoring total of the season.
Up Next
The Broncos and Coyotes will face off in a doubleheader tomorrow, March 8th, beginning at 2:00 PM at Scolinos Field.
Bronco Bits
- The Broncos are now 87-78 (.527) all-time against Cal State San Bernardino, including 4-6 in their past 10 games.
- Randy Betten is now 423-277 (.604) as head coach of the Broncos and 300-197 (.604) in CCAA play.
- Betten is now 24 CCAA wins away from tying John Scolinos (324) for the most in program history.
- The last time these two teams played each other at Scolinos Field in 2023, it marked the lowest-scoring four game series in program history with just 15 combined runs across the four games. The Broncos scored 14 runs in Friday's win, coming just one short of tying that entire series.
- Record Watch - Pappas is third all-time in runs scored with 152. Tom Weeks (1984-87) currently holds the program record at 168.
- Brent Cota continued his hot start against conference opponents, as he's now batting .583 with a 1.495 OPS since CCAA play started – both of which lead the CCAA.
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