Box Score LA JOLLA — For the third time in the series — and the seventh time in as many losses — the Warriors' baseball team dropped a close game, this time a 8-7 decision in the finale against No. 21 UC San Diego.

Cal State Stanislaus completes its trip to La Jolla with a 1-3 record, but they were in each contest enough to possibility came away with more. The Warriors also earned its first win at UCSD since 2006 on Saturday.

In the end, the Warriors fell to 4-7 overall and 1-3 in the CCAA and has lost five of their last six games. In all seven defeats this season, the Warriors were always in the game and never lost by more than four runs.

In Sunday's game, the Warriors got ahead 3-0 in the second, and with the steady Rafael Vasquez on the mound, they were poised to even the series. However, things turned quickly in the third and fourth innings to turn it into a 6-5 game.

Stanislaus did tie it up again in the fifth on two doubles, but the Tritons got back up ahead with two runs in the sixth for a 8-6 lead. Doubles by Craig Beevers and Klayton Miller in the fifth had made it 6-6.

In the Stanislaus second, three straight hits plated the first run, and two outs later a two run single by Tynan Pedretti scored two more for a 3-0 lead.

UC San Diego (8-3, 3-1 CCAA) used the pitch-by-committee approach with six hurlers on the day. The top two batters of the order --- Danny Susdorf and Dillon Moyer -- went 6-for-9, scored four times and drove in five runs.

Pedretti finished with 2-for-4 with three runs batted in. Beevers went 3-for-5 and Matt Chaidez also had two hits.

Joe Whitehead was tagged with the loss in relief. He came in in the fifth and in three innings gave up two runs on three hits.