Box Score

LA JOLLA – Cal State L.A.'s baseball team saw its five-game winning streak end with a thud Thursday in La Jolla.

 

The Golden Eagles were quieted by a trio of UC San Diego pitchers and the Tritons pounded out 15 hits in an 11-1 California Collegiate Athletic Association victory over Cal State L.A. at Triton Baseball Field. Cal State L.A. (11-5, 4-1 CCAA) lost for the first time in conference play, while UC San Diego (8-3, 5-0 CCAA) remained the lone team undefeated in CCAA action.

 

Cal State L.A. had little success against UC San Diego starter Tim Shibuya, who was the CCAA Freshman of the Year last season. Shibuya retired the first 13 Cal State L.A. batters before Travis Tartamella reached on an infield single in the fifth inning. The Golden Eagles didn't score until the eighth inning when freshman pinch hitter Michael Vinyard slugged a solo home run.

 

That made it 5-1, but UC San Diego dashed any Cal State L.A. comeback hopes by scoring six times in the bottom of the inning to turn the game into a rout.

 

Shibuya went eight innings and gave up only four hits and one run. He didn't walk a batter and struck out four. Elias Tuma and Ryland MacFadyen blanked the Golden Eagles in the ninth with MacFadyen getting the final two outs and leaving the bases loaded in the process.

 

Isaac Morales (2-2) allowed nine hits and five runs in his start for Cal State L.A. He walked three and struck out two and was relieved in the sixth inning after the Tritons loaded the bases with no one out. Danny DeSantiago limited the damage to just one run that inning and kept the game close until UC San Diego struck for its six runs in the eighth. The Tritons scored four of those runs with four consecutive two-out hits.

 

Vance Albitz led the way for the Tritons, going 4-for-4 with a walk from the leadoff position. He scored three runs. Even Kehoe had three hits and drove in three runs with a pair of doubles, while Josh Tanner, Tim Mort and Robert Sedin had two hits each for the Tritons.

 

Morales, who lost only once last season while earning All-CCAA and All-West Region honors, was able to limit the damage through four innings. He surrendered a run in the first on a two-out double by Kehoe, but stranded two on base when he got Mort to ground out to end the inning.

 

He blanked the Tritons over the next three innings to keep it at 1-0, but UC San Diego touched him for three runs in the fifth. Kehoe had a two-run double and Mort squeezed in a run to make it 4-0.

 

DeSantiago took over in the sixth with the bases loaded and no one out and did a nice job of allowing only a sacrifice fly by Tanner before getting out of the inning. UC San Diego made the most of its opportunities in the eighth, getting a run-scoring single by Tanner and a sacrifice fly by Garrett Imeson before collecting four straight two-out hits to really break it open. Matt Cantele had a two-run double and Mort and Sedin added RBI doubles.

 

Cal State L.A. loaded the bases in the ninth inning with one out when Matt Miraldi, Eric Quintero and Toby Davis drew walks. MacFadyen came in and shut the door, though, retiring the only two batters he faced.

 

Cal State L.A. will return to action on Friday with another single game at UC San Diego. The four-game series will conclude on Saturday with a doubleheader at Reeder Field beginning at 11 a.m.