Box Score TURLOCK — UC San Diego scored 14 runs during a six-inning stretch over the two-game span as the 24th ranked Tritons took both ends of the doubleheader from Cal State Stanislaus on Saturday.
Unable to close out the game with a 4-1 lead in Saturday's opener, the Cal State Stanislaus Warriors suffered a heartbreaking, 5-4, loss in 10 innings in a long afternoon game. In the evening contest, UC San Diego picked up where it left off and kept hitting en route to a 10-1 nightcap win.
UC San Diego, the CCAA's top scoring team, continued to win with its 10th straight California Collegiate Athletic Association victory. The Tritons improved to 24-11 overall and 20-7 in conference play.
The game one setback spoiled a great outing by freshman starter
Nick Voumard, who gave up just two hits and struck out seven batters in six innings against an offensive minded UCSD team. Voumard did get himself in trouble with seven walks but only a lead-off hit-batsman in the second inning came around to score against him.
For eight innings, the Warriors played great baseball both on offense and defense. Offensively, a two-run fourth that included a RBI double by
Cameron Irinaga and a run-scoring single by
Matt Chaidez gave Stanislaus a 3-1 lead. A
Marcus Mastrobuoni double down the left field line scored
Colton Beatty in the fifth to make it 4-1.
That score would hold up until the ninth, when UC San Diego scored three times on four hits, including back-to-back run scoring singles by Nick La Face and Justin Rahn to tie the game.
Then in the 10th, the Tritons scored the go-ahead run on a single up the middle by Garrett Tuck which scored Brett Levy from second.
In the nightcap, UCSD jumped all over Warrior pitching in the first couple of innings. It was 4-1 after two and the Tritions would tagged on a run in the third and put away the game with a five-run fourth.
Troy Cruz went 3-for-4 and drove in a pair of runs and Christian Leung was 2-for-3 with two RBIs in game two to lead UC San Diego. The Tritons add to their CCAA-leading run-total on the day and as a team they have now scored 225 runs in 35 games this season.
Between the ninth inning of game one and the fourth inning of game four, UC San Diego scored 14 of its 15 runs on the day.
Cal State Stanislaus (11-24, 5-21 CCAA) out-hit UCSD, 13-7, in game one. The Warriors were led by Beatty who went 3-for-5. Mastrobuoni, Irinaga and Chaidez each ended up with two hits in game one.
Skippy Ferreria, Beatty and
Dayton Mellor were the only Warriors to pick up a single off three UCSD pitchers in the nightcap.
Danny Molieri provided a bright spot for a beat-up bullpen in the nightcap. After giving up a hit in the fourth, the senior righty retired 10 of the last 11 batters, including nine straight, to end the game.
The series finale is on Sunday with the first pitch scheduled for Noon.