LA JOLLA -- Splitting a four-game series on the road -- and at UC San Diego -- is usually not a bad thing. However, the Warriors had the series seemingly in hand on Saturday.

That is until UC San Diego scored five runs in the bottom of the seventh and won the game in the eighth in the series finale, 10-9, in extra innings.

Cal State Stanislaus won Saturday's opener, 4-3, also in eight innings, after the teams split on Friday. The Warriors return home with 15-7 overall and 10-6 California Collegiate Athletic Association records after going 2-2 in La Jolla.

After Jennifer Arnold homered to left in the seventh for a 9-4 lead, the game was in reliever Stacey Hains' hands to close out after picking up a save in the day's first game. Hains, though, got into trouble in the final frame allowing five runs on four hits and some Warrior mental errors.

A line-drive to center off the bat of Nicole Saari that scored leadoff batter Kristyn Lesovsky started the rally for UCSD. Allison May then drove in two runs with a single to right center. Saari later scored off the bat of Lyndsay Gaylord and May came in on a squeeze play to tie the game.

The Warriors were cruising along offensively in the game after a three-run homer by Alyssa Guzman in the second and a two-run double by Arnold in the third gave them a 6-2 lead. Stanislaus padded the lead with two more runs in the sixth before the Arnold solo shot in the seventh.

Meghan Franksen was 3-for-5 and Arnold went 2-for-4 and drove in three runs with a double and a home run as part of the CSUS 12-hit attack.

Hains relived starter Arnold in the fifth and was on her way to her second save of the day before the disastrous seventh inning.

In the opener, Jessica Gaumnitz scored the game-winner as a pinch-runner after sliding just under a tag in the top of the eighth. Hains closed out the UCSD inning by getting the final two outs for a save. Gaumnitz earned the win with 7 1/3 innings of work. She allowed three runs on six hits, struck out three and walked four to improve to 9-3.

Eight different Warriors picked up hits in game one with Britney Borba going 1-for-3 with a double.

UCSD's Kristyn Lesovsky sent the game into extra innings with a solo shot in the seventh. She was 4-for-6 with a home run, drove in two runs and walked three times to lead the Tritons (14-11, 8-7 CCAA).

Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score