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Wildcats, Bringas bash San Bernardino 20-5

Chico State third baseman Adrian Bringas.

Adrian Bringas went 4-for-5 with four RBI. It was his second four-hit game of the season.

3/14/2010 9:32:13 PM

SAN BERNARDINO – Ten different Chico State hitters recorded at least one hit, run, and RBI as the Wildcats pushed across 20 runs on 23 hits to win the series finale at Cal State San Bernardino 20-5 Sunday and salvage a series split. Adrian Bringas led the high-powered Chico State offense with a 4-for-5 effot, home run, and five RBI. Jackson Evans, Jordan Larson, and Michael Murphy collected three hits apiece.

The Wildcats, who have scored 20 or more four times this season and 10 or more 11 times, improved to 15-5 overall and 11-5 in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. Cal State San Bernardino dipped to 14-7 overall and 14-6 in the CCAA.

Adam Arakawa, Kevin Seaver, and Deven Braden logged two hits apiece for Chico State. Arakawa pushed his multi-hit streak to eight games and his team-high batting average to .493. Larson, Murphy, Seaver, Danny Dyer, Johnny Hay, and Kyle Leon drove in two runs apiece.

Jordan Larson finished with three hits, including a double, and two RBI.

Chico State starter Scott Greene earned his first win as a Wildcat, allowing five runs on seven hits in five innings. Ian Waldron and Jordan Lindebaum each pitched two innings of shutout, one-hit relief.

Evans led off the second with a double and scored on Bringas’ single to left to open the scoring. As it had all series, Cal State San Bernardino also struck early, scoring twice in the second. But it was all Wildcats after that.

With one down in the third, nine straight Wildcats reached base. Larson, Murphy, Arakawa, and Seaver all singled. Arakawa drove in one run and Seaver a pair. Evans tripled home another run, Hay singled home Evans, Bringas smashed a two-run homer, Braden walked, and Leon doubled him home. Just like that it was 10-2.

Evans led off the fourth with a single, stole second, and scored on Braden’s infield hit. And Braden was driven home by Larson’s base hit.

Cal State San Bernardino took one last shot at a comeback with three runs in the fifth, but Chico State answered with an eight-run sixth to put the game away. Bringas’s RBI-double plated Hay, who had walked leading off the inning. After Braden’s single moved Bringas to third, Leon drove him in with a sacrifice fly. Larson’s double scored Braden and Murphy’s single brought Larson home. Danny Dyer’s bases-loaded double drove home two more runs, and Hay and Bringas wrapped up the scoring with RBIs.

Chico State is back in action this weekend when it takes on Cal State Stanislaus in a four-game series. They’ll play single games in Turlock Friday at 3 p.m. and Saturday at noon before heading north to play a doubleheader in Chico Sunday at 11 a.m.

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Wildcats of the Week

Brian Beeman

Men's Track

As a decathlete, Brian Beeman is used to running all over the place. But he took it to a new level last week. After competing in the decathlon, high jump and javelin to help lead the Chico State men’s track & field team to the California Collegiate Athletic Association Championship March 6-8, he got on a bus and arrived back in Chico in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Then, he turned around to head back to Southern California for the Claremont Classic Decathlon and turned in an NCAA Provisional Qualifying mark and personal best score of 6,512 on Thursday and Friday.

That iron-man feet has earned him Wildcat of the Week honors.

Beeman finished sixth at the Burns Track and Field Complex while logging the 15th best score in the nation this year. He won the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:31.75, placed third in the 400-meter dash (51.19 seconds) and tied for third in the high jump (6-feet-02.75).

Beeman and a number of his Wildcats teammates now await Wednesday morning’s NCAA Track and Field Championships selection show to found out if he’s earned a berth to the National Championships May 27-29 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Kacie McCarthy

Softball

Kacie McCarthy’s freshman season as a Wildcat has been filled with highlights, but the Shingletown native turned in her most memorable performances of the year last weekend in the NCAA West Sub-Regional at Sonoma State, posting three straight victories and helping Chico State advance to the West Super Regional in Hawaii. The Wildcats are just two wins away from reaching the Division II College World Series, thanks in large part to the pitching prowess of McCarthy, who is the latest recipient of Wildcat of the Week honors.

In Friday’s Sub-Regional opener, McCarthy took over for Chico State starter Jessica McDermott and tossed seven-and-a-third innings of relief, striking out a career-high 11 batters and earning the win as the Wildcats beat 15th ranked Grand Canyon University 5-4 in eight innings. In Saturday’s winner’s bracket game versus No. 14 Sonoma State, McCarthy twirled a one-hit shutout in Chico State’s 7-0 victory over the host Seawolves. Sunday McCarthy completed the postseason trifecta, going the distance for the 18th time this year and getting credit for the “W” as the ’Cats rallied back from three runs down to score four times in the bottom of the sixth inning and pull out a 4-3 victory over Dixie State to sweep through the Sub-Regional and advance to this weekend’s West Super Regional.

McCarthy, now 16-10 on the season, lowered her season ERA to 1.92 with the three weekend wins and is ranked third among California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) pitchers. She also is sixth in the conference in victories and innings pitched (164.1). She leads the Wildcats in wins, complete games, innings pitched and appearances (29).

Chico State takes on the No. 3 ranked Sea Warriors of Hawaii Pacific Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific time in the opener of the West Super Regional in Kaneohe, Hawaii. The winner of the best-of-three set will advance to the Division II College World Series May 27-31 in St. Joseph, Missouri.

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