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Yanez, Danny1 - 2025
Grace Echelbarger
12
Winner San Bernardino YOTES 1-0
4
Azusa Pacific APU 0-1
Winner
San Bernardino YOTES
1-0
12
Final
4
Azusa Pacific APU
0-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
San Bernardino YOTES 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 12 9 2
Azusa Pacific APU 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 4 11 0

W: RODRIGUEZ, Ivan (1-0) L: Vargas, Jake (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

It Only Took One

Cal State San Bernardino used a 12-run fourth inning to beat APU, 12-4

AZUSA, Calif. -- Azusa Pacific scored 3 times in 9 turns at the plate tonight.  Cal State San Bernardino scored in just one inning, but that's all the Coyotes needed, dropping a fourth inning 12-bomb on the Cougars to cruise to a 12-4 victory over APU in both team's' season opener at the Cougar Baseball Complex Friday night.

Cal State San Bernardino sent 15 batters to plate in that fourth inning, including shortstop Tyler Vanneste who twice delivered 2-run doubles down the right field line to highlight the Coyote explosion.  Jacob Mejia, who earlier in the inning reached first base on wild-pitch strikeout and later scored, followed Vanneste's second double, with a 2-out, 3-run home run to cap the 12-run inning.

The Coyotes pounded 3 different Cougars on the hill during the fourth, including former Coyote pitcher Chris Hernandez, who was making his Cougar debut, but was unable to thwart the Coyote onslaught after CSUSB had already tagged Cougar reliever Jake Vargas with 4 runs before making an out.

Despite the drubbing, Azusa Pacific did have some bright spots in the game.  Senior outfielder Danny Yanez, who closed the 2024 campaign on a torrid pace, picked right up where he left off last year with a lead-off home run in the second inning to put the Cougars up 1-0 at the time.  Junior third baseman Diego Frey slugged his first collegiate home run, a 2-run shot to right-center in the eighth inning.  Cougar pitchers David Hays and Joey Frey allowed just 2 hits over 6 innings of work, Hays as the starter who strike out 2 through the first 3 innings, and Frey who finished with 3 innings of perfect pitching without a hit while striking out 4.  It was everything else in between that cost the Cougars their first season-opening win in 4 years.

Vanneste finished the game 2-for-4 with 4 RBIs.  Third baseman Tank Rodriguez went 2-for-4 with an RBI and 2 runs scored.  Ivan Rodriguez came out of the bullpen to work 4.1 innings in relief, striking out 6, walking none, to preserve the Coyote win.

The 2 teams now head to San Bernardino to renew their series with a noon douleheader at Fiscilini Field Saturday (Feb. 1).
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