San Diego forces Fresno to Game 2

Regional baseball champ decided today

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Turlock's Tommy Mendonca continues to be a shining light for the Fresno State baseball team at the NCAA Long Beach Regional.

Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, Mendonca was just about the only light in a 15-1 loss to San Diego on Sunday.

Fresno and San Diego will meet today at 6 p.m. at Blair Field to decide who will advance to the College World Series.

Mendonca scored Fresno's only run, coming home on a Danny Muno base hit in the seventh inning.

Muno had two of the Bulldogs' four hits off Toreros' starter Kyle Blair. Mendonca and Ryan Overland had the others. Blair struck out nine.

Four Bulldogs pitchers gave up 13 walks and 11 hits, including Logan Algebraic's two-run homer in the second inning to give San Diego a 5-0 lead.

Mendonca, who dislocated four knuckles on his right hand while fielding a ball Friday, was credited with an error Sunday.

San Diego scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth, repaying Fresno for sending it to the elimination bracket with a 6-0 first-round shutout.

Josh Romanski, who pitched the Toreros to a 5-1 victory over Long Beach on Saturday, played center field Sunday and went 4 for 5 with two runs and an RBI to lead San Diego.

There is a brother in each dugout -- Fresno freshman shortstop Danny Muno and San Diego sophomore left fielder Kevin Muno. Both are lead-off hitters from Thousand Oaks.

"We both knew it'd come to this at some point when I committed to Fresno State and he was already at San Diego," Danny said told the Fresno Bee on Friday.

Fresno (39-28), the three-time defending Western Athletic Conference champion, is the No. 4 seed. No. 2 San Diego (44-16), which eliminated Long Beach with a 5-1 victory earlier Sunday, had won its second consecutive West Coast Conference title.