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FRESNO, Calif. — Senior Luis Pimentel-Guerrero reached base safely for the 12th consecutive game and senior Jace Jeremiah extended his hitting streak to a team-high five games, but visiting Sacramento State was limited to just seven base runners on the night in a 2-0 defeat at Fresno State on Tuesday.

The duo of Jeremiah and Pimentel-Guerrero accounted for two of the team’s five hits with the former reaching on a single to left in the second inning and the latter adding a sixth-inning single to keep their respective streaks alive.

Dating back to the team’s game at Pacific on Feb. 25, Jeremiah’s hitting streak matched Pimentel-Guererro’s hitting streak from Feb. 14-22 for the longest on the team this year. During his five-game hitting streak, Jeremiah is batting .500 (8-for-16) with a pair of runs scored and four RBI.

Meanwhile, Pimentel-Guerrero’s 12-game run ranks second in his Hornet career behind only his stretch of reaching base safely in 19 consecutive games last season.

Sophomore Orlando Cobarrubias collected Sacramento State’s only extra-base hit with a seventh-inning double, while Sam Harry added a single of his own in the second. Jeremiah and Michael Perazzo also drew walks on the night to account for the other two base runners.

Sacramento State (3-9) put two on in the second with no outs, but an infield fly and a double play ended the threat. The Hornets also had two on in the seventh, but an over-the-shoulder catch by the Fresno State first baseman running toward foul territory ended the frame and another rally. 

The Bulldogs (7-4) plated the only two runs of the night in the fourth as a lead-off walk and a single put a pair on for the home team. A wild pitch moved them both into scoring position before a ground ball to the right side and a single to center cashed both in for the 2-0 lead.

Senior right-hander Elijah Rogalski, making his first appearance on the mound for the Hornets since March 16, 2024, due to injury, started for Sacramento State and got three ground balls to end the first. Six pitchers followed, with sophomore right-hander Chase Sorlie the only one to throw more than an inning, allowing a hit and striking out two in two innings of wrk.

Sophomore Jackson Halverson (1-1) suffered the loss, charged with the two runs on two hits in only one-third of an inning. Ian Winterhalder, Konner Entz, Baylor Sandberg, and Trevor Wilson followed, combining to scatter only four hits over the final 4.2 innings with Winterhalder and Sandberg striking out a pair each.

Justin Cuellar (1-0) earned the win, striking out four around two walks over two innings, while Douglas Crystal picked up his second save with two perfect innings, striking out one.

Sacramento State now heads to Baton Rouge, La., to take on No. 2-ranked LSU in a three-game series beginning Friday (March 6) at 4:30 p.m. PT. Game two is scheduled for a 4 p.m. PT start on Saturday (March 7), followed by an 11 a.m. PT first pitch on Sunday (March 8).

The Tigers are the highest-ranked opponent for the Hornets since they met top-ranked Arizona in a three-game series on Feb. 29-March 2 in 2008 and the sixth time in the last eight years that Sacramento State has faced a top-25 opponent during the regular season, posting wins against the likes of ranked programs from UCLA, Stanford, Arizona State, UC Santa Barbara, Long Beach State, and Oregon.