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Box Score 2 LA JOLLA — For the first time since the 2006 season, the Cal State Stanislaus baseball team won at perennial power UC San Diego on Saturday in game one of Saturday's doubleheader.
Ross Gonsalves's two run single in the 10th scored two runs and the Warriors held off a Triton rally in their final at bat to win 4-3 in extra Innings.
No. 21 ranked UC San Diego then held the Warriors scoreless in the nightcap in a 3-0 win for the twinbill split.
Overall, the Warriors were 4-24 in the last 28 games since the start of the 2007 season. However, the Warriors' win marked the first in La Jolla since splitting a four-game set in mid-season of 2006. Stanislaus had lost eight straight at UCSD since.
After trailing 2-0, the Warriors tied the game in the eighth inning on a RBI single by Gonsalves that scored pinch-runner
Anthony Nicolosi. Nicolosi was running for
Skippy Ferreria who led off the inning with a single.
With runners at second and third and two outs in the 10th, Gonsalves smacked a single to left-center field to score both runners for a 4-2 lead. UCSD did get one run back in the home half of the 10th but
Danny Molieri got a fly out to end the game.
Molier earned the win in relief with two innings of work. He gave up a run on two hits. He followed starter
Michael York and
Jeremy McDonald on the mound. York and McDonald each threw four innings.
Gonsalves ended up with a 2-for-5, 3-RBI game.
Klayton Miller and
Craig Beevers each had two hits apiece as well.
In game two, ninth place batter
Tynan Pedretti had two of the Warriors' four hits in the seven-inning game. Starter
Byron Lemon was locked up in another pitching dual, but lost out to UCSD's Dan Kolodin, who threw six three-hit shut-out innings with nine strikeouts.
The four-game set concludes on Sunday with a single game at 11 a.m.