LA JOLLA, Calif. - The fourth-ranked UC San Diego baseball team completed a four-game sweep against Cal State Monterey Bay by winning a doubleheader by scores of 12-1 and 9-3 on Sunday afternoon at Triton Ballpark. In the first game, a 12-1 win,
Matt Rossman (3-0) did not allow an earned run in seven innings while UCSD pounded out 14 hits and took advantage of four CSUMB errors. In the 9-3 win, CSUMB took a brief lead in the third inning before the Tritons responded by scoring in the next four consecutive frames.
Kirby St. John earned the win to improve to 3-1. With the wins, UCSD improves to 15-3, 6-2 California Collegiate Athletic Association, while CSUMB drops to 2-15, 1-11 CCAA.
In the first game, Robert Sedin had three hits and two RBI while Vance Albitz and Kyle Saul had multi-hit games. 10 different Tritons would get hits in the game.
Rossman went seven innings, allowed one run, no earned runs and four hits. The senior lowered his ERA to 1.91, tops among Triton starting pitchers.
Austin Hill and Daniel Simmons pitched the final two shutout innings in the win.
The Tritons scored three in the second, one in the third and four in the fourth to take a commanding 8-0 lead through four innings.
In the second game, a 9-3 Triton victory, Saul added three hits, scored three times and had one RBI. Vance Albitz went 2-for-4 with a double and homerun, his third of the year. Brandon Gregorich, Michael Benton and Matt Hubbard had two RBI apiece.
St. John struggled early as CSUMB took its first lead in any game of the series in the third inning, leading 3-2 in the top of the third. UCSD responded with two runs in the bottom half of the third, one in the fourth, two in the fifth and two more in the sixth to close out the scoring at 9-3 UCSD.
St. John settled into a groove retiring the last 10 Otters he faced. Sean Greer and Eric Abraham continued the strong pitching with perfect innings. St. John, Greer and Abraham retired the final 16 CSUMB hitters.
UCSD completes its 18-game homestand with a 15-3 overall record. The Tritons hit the road to face CCAA newcomer Cal State East Bay on March 5-7 in Hayward.
