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UCLA answered with four runs in the next two innings, including a three-run second inning to take control 4-1.
In the top of the fourth, Kyle Johnson inched his team closer notching a lead-off home run to right-center to give him homers in back-to-back games for the first time this season. Cummings collected a one-out double in the top of the fifth and Jordan Sprinkle cut the lead to 4-3 with an RBI single.
UCSB had the tying-run 90 feet away and the leading-run in scoring position in the top of the seventh, as Mortensen and Rodriguez reached again and moved up on wild pitch. Unfortunately, Johnson was unable to ice the game popping out to short for the third out.
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After hanging up seven-straight zeros, the Anteaters finally scored on Boone with Thomas McCaffrey collecting a solo home run in the top of the eighth to tie it 1-1. Out came Boone and the Gauchos would use three more pitchers in Conner Roberts, Hayden Hattenbach, and Clayton Hall to finish off the inning. Four more Eaters would score under their watch giving UCI the 5-1 win.
Seven different players accounted for UCSB s eight hits.
Game Two
Cory Lewis (4-3) tied his career-high of 11 strikeouts as the Gauchos starter in game two, but once again his offense could not supply any run support. He tossed 6.1 innings and allowed just three runs on six hits and no walks.
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Coming in for the save in the ninth was UCSB s hottest bullpen arm, Carter Benbrook, who retired the final three batters to earn his team-best third save of the season.
All five runs scored came by way of the solo home run with Samuelson giving the Mustangs the early lead in the second inning.
It wasn t until the fifth that UCSB cracked the scoreboard as Bryce Willits went yard for just the second time this season to even things at 1-1. The go-ahead and game-winning homer came off of the hot bat of Christian Kirtley in the seventh. He has now hit three bombs in the last two games.