THE SCHEDULE
Games 41-44
at Cal State Stanislaus (18-20, 13-15 CCAA)
Friday, April 17 • 6 p.m.
Warrior Baseball Field • Turlock
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Saturday, April 18 • 2 p.m. (DH)
Warrior Baseball Field • Turlock
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Sunday, April 19 • 12 p.m.
Warrior Baseball Field • Turlock
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The 27th-ranked UC San Diego baseball team is on the road this weekend for another important California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) series, traveling north Thursday by bus to Turlock for four games at an in-form Cal State Stanislaus (18-20, 13-15 CCAA) club. The second-place Tritons (26-14, 21-10 CCAA) open their set with the Warriors, now in a three-way tie for sixth, on Friday night, April 17, at 6 p.m., with ace Justin Donatella (7-1, 0.63 ERA) expected to make his next appearance of a remarkable junior season. Game one of the Saturday doubleheader will begin at 2 p.m., with a seven-inning nightcap following approximately 30-40 minutes after a regulation nine-inning contest. The getaway-day series finale has a 12 p.m. first pitch on Sunday, April 19. UCSD is 9-6 on the road, with CSUS 8-10 at home. Depending on results around the league, the Tritons could clinch a CCAA Championship berth this weekend.

LIVE COVERAGE
All UCSD home games at Triton Ballpark feature a live online video stream and live stats. Select games will additionally have audio commentary, provided again this year by former Triton pitcher (2007-08) Tim Strombel (@Timmy2Sides). The final full broadcast (of 10) is the series finale with Cal State San Bernardino on Tuesday night, April 21, at 6 pm. The audio/video is free, but does require registration and a login. Some road contests also have video and/or audio, including both, for free, all weekend in Turlock. All have live stats. Fans can access live coverage for home and away dates from the UCSD Schedule/Results page. Starting lineups, live between-inning updates and other gameday news and notes can be found by following Triton Baseball on the UCSD Athletics Twitter handle (@UCSDtritons).

THE MATCH-UP BY THE NUMBERS
UCSD is fourth in the CCAA in team batting average (.289), second in ERA (2.98) and third in fielding percentage (.970). Cal State Stanislaus is seventh in hitting (.275), ninth in ERA (5.09) and fourth in fielding (.968).

THE NEW TRITON BALLPARK
Triton Ballpark on East Campus at UCSD has a brand-new look outside the foul lines in 2015. The extensive renovation was completed enough for competition to take place as scheduled with an Opening Day doubleheader on Sunday, Feb. 1. Some of the main features include a permanent grandstand to seat just over 500, a press box, new sunken dugouts, an area for food trucks, and restrooms, among several other amenities. Read details here. The first pitch at the new Triton Ballpark came from Trevor Scott, the first hit and RBI by Brandon Shirley, the first run by Tyler Howsley, and the first home run in the form of a grand slam by Brian Choi. The Marye Anne Fox Clubhouse down the right field line was introduced to the players on March 17. Watch a clip here. The official Triton Ballpark re-opening and clubhouse dedication took place on April 10, with the U-T San Diego present. View photo galleries from the ballpark construction here, Opening Day here, and clubhouse dedication here.

TRITON BASEBALL BACK ON TWITTER
After a hiatus, Triton Baseball has returned to Twitter @UCSDbsb! Be sure to give them a follow. Gameday info and updates will still predominantly come from the official UCSD Athletics Twitter handle @UCSDtritons. The majority of the Triton coaching staff, including head coach Eric Newman (@CoachEricNewman), are also on Twitter. Those links can be found at the bottom.

RANKINGS REPORT
Following a 3-2 week, UCSD is back in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper national poll at No. 27. The Tritons had fallen into the receiving votes category just outside of the top 30 on April 6. The Tritons are rated No. 22 by D2 Baseball News, No. 19 by Perfect Game, and receiving votes outside of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) poll. They appeared at No. 15 in CBN's preseason edition, moving up to a high of No. 10 in the publication's first in-season listing on Feb. 16. Other preseason prognostications were No. 12 by the NCBWA (Jan. 28), No. 16 by D2 Baseball News, and No. 19 by PG (Jan. 29). UCSD's highest ranking in 2015 has been No. 8 by the NCBWA on Feb. 17. Regionally speaking, the Tritons are rated No. 3 in the West by D2 Baseball News and No. 4 by the NCBWA. The first release of the all-important NCAA regional poll is due out next week, with the top six teams in the final version of that ranking headed to the NCAA Division II Championship West Regional.

LAST TIME OUT
UCSD split a four-game home series with Cal State Monterey Bay last weekend. The Tritons shut the Otters out, 8-0 and 5-0, in the first two match-ups, before falling 10-4 in Saturday's seven-inning nightcap, and getting edged 7-6 late on Sunday. Justin Donatella tossed six shutout innings in Friday's opener, with a season-high 12 strikeouts. Jack Rupe, Jr. (2.0) and Travis Roberts (1.0) combined on that one. Trevor Scott then fanned a season-high nine of his own in another six shutout innings to begin Saturday's twin bill, with fellow seniors Dan Kolodin (2.0) and Chad Rieser (1.0) taking over in relief with two strikeouts each. Jack Larsen hit a pair of two-run home runs, both down the right field line, to bookend the series on Friday and Sunday, knocking in eight runs on the weekend, including a career-high four in the finale.

AROUND THE CCAA
At 21-10 (.677) in league play, UCSD is now in second place in the 11-team CCAA standings, just .002 percentage points behind Cal Poly Pomona at 19-9 (.679). This weekend's opponent, Cal State Stanislaus (13-15), has surged of late into a three-way tie for sixth. UCSD remains 5.5 games clear of fifth-place Sonoma State, with the top four teams earning CCAA Championship berths. Depending on results around the league, the Tritons could clinch a tournament spot this weekend. Another full league slate is on tap this week, beginning Thursday afternoon in Pomona with the opener of a key split-venue set between leader Cal Poly Pomona and third-place Cal State L.A. Follow all of the action through the CCAA baseball scoreboard. Bookmark it here.

DONNY DEALING
Justin Donatella (7-1) continues to lead the CCAA in wins (tied), ERA (0.63) and strikeouts (82). He won each of his first six CCAA starts, becoming the first Triton to do so since Matt Rossman in 2010, before taking a no-decision at home against Cal Poly Pomona on April 2. The Tritons are an undefeated 8-0 in his league outings. Donatella is 7-0 with that no-decision in CCAA play, with his only loss on the year coming in his 2015 debut at home against then-fifth-ranked and current No. 2 Colorado Mesa, the 2014 national runner-up. The junior right-hander threw 34.1 straight shutout innings prior to seeing a blooped RBI single drop in to center field with one away in the fourth inning of UCSD's 11-5 home win over Cal State San Bernardino on March 20. The incredible stretch dated back to his second frame of the season during the 2-0 loss to CMU on Feb. 6. He had yet to allow a run in 31.2 frames over his first four-plus CCAA starts prior to that fourth-inning single. Of the five runs he has given up, four were earned, with the latest coming on his first surrendered home run of 2015. Donatella is sixth in the NCAA Division II in ERA, with more appearances and innings than any of the five pitchers in front of him. Through games played on April 13, he is also tied for eighth nationally in strikeouts, tied for 14th in wins, 10th in strikeouts per nine innings (12.87), 13th in hits allowed per nine innings (4.87), and sixth in WHIP (0.75). Batters are hitting just .153 against him. His strikeout-to-walk ratio sits at 6.83 (82-12). Donatella's ERA of 0.63 would constitute a single-season CCAA (0.98) and school (1.29) record.

SANCHEZ AT TOP OF ORDER
Junior outfielder Gradeigh Sanchez has started in the leadoff position in each of the past 16 games, primarily as the Tritons' designated hitter. He is batting .424 (25-for-59) during this stretch, with at least one hit in 13 of those 16 contests. Sanchez has produced career-best streaks of 10 games with a hit, the longest by a Triton in 2015, and 15 of reaching base safely, during March and April. The Mission Viejo product drew a walk to lead off the home half of the first inning in all five of UCSD's games last week, and more remarkably still, went ball-ball-called strike-ball to begin each of those at-bats, before eventually accepting the free pass. Sanchez scored the run in UCSD's lone walk-off triumph of 2015, on Justin Flatt's single through the right side in the 11th inning against league leader Cal Poly Pomona on April 2. He singled up the middle with two outs, stole his first base of the year, and scooted on over to third on the catcher's throwing error, with Flatt producing the decisive hit on the very next pitch. Watch it here.

STELLAR PITCHING
UCSD is now second in the CCAA in team ERA at 2.98, behind CPP (2.94), and is 11th in Division II. The Tritons have a league-leading 335 strikeouts. The starting rotation of Justin Donatella (7-1, 0.63), Trevor Scott (5-5, 2.47), Alon Leichman (5-2, 3.89) and Troy Cruz (5-3, 2.96) all have an ERA of under 4.00 and at least five wins. Donatella paces the CCAA in wins (tied), ERA and strikeouts (82), and is first on the staff with 57.1 innings. The Tritons as a team have issued only 92 walks, the fewest in the league, and have the nation's seventh-best strikeout-to-walk ratio of 3.64. They are sixth in walks allowed per nine innings (2.45).

SOPHOMORE BUMP FOR LARSEN
Jack Larsen has produced the opposite of a sophomore slump, as the second-year Triton outfielder has made himself into a legitimate MVP candidate in the CCAA. After finishing the 54-game 2014 slate with a .269 average, six extra-base hits and 13 RBI, the Mission Viejo product is second on the team in batting (.372), and first in both extra-base hits (16) and RBI (40) in 2015. He is fourth in the CCAA in average, second in RBI, tied for seventh with 10 doubles, and sixth in slugging (.569). In conference games only, Larsen is batting .371 with 32 RBI.

DEFENSIVE UPSWING
UCSD is up to the .970 mark in fielding percentage, third in the CCAA, after a slow start defensively. The Tritons had a recent run of six straight games without an error, all during a season-long six-game road stretch from March 22-29. The single-season record for consecutive games without an error for the program's Division II era still stands at seven, from March 27 to April 9 of the 2010 campaign, when the Tritons set a Division II record that still stands with a fielding percentage of .984, en route to a second straight trip to Cary, N.C. UCSD has been charged with just one error in nine road games since a program-record 11 at Cal State East Bay on March 1.

TWO-HEADED MONSTER OUT OF BULLPEN
Fourth-year seniors Dan Kolodin and Chad Rieser have four and three saves, respectively. Kolodin (2-1, 4.35), a right-hander, is second on the staff with 18 appearances, 16 in relief, and is second in strikeouts (49) while fifth in innings (41.1). Rieser (0-0, 3.18 ERA), a left-hander, has made a team-best 21 appearances, tied for 10th in the country, with 38 strikeouts over 28.1 frames. He struck out the side in order in both the sixth and seventh on Feb. 21 against Cal State Dominguez Hills. On March 7, Rieser saved both ends of a doubleheader sweep at home over rival Chico State, becoming the first Triton to achieve the feat since Kolodin in another home sweep against SF State on April 6, 2013.

MANN ALIVE
Senior first baseman Michael Mann has turned things around after a rough start to his final collegiate campaign. He held a .200 batting average following the 6-2 loss at Azusa Pacific on Feb. 24. Since then, Mann is hitting .397 (29-for-73), with 16 RBI and seven multi-hit efforts in 22 appearances, to increase his average to .322, third on the team. During this stretch, the Orinda native produced a 5-for-5 showing in the series finale at East Bay on March 1. Over the course of the 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons, there have only been two five-hit efforts by a Triton, both from Mann, as he was 5-for-5 against CPP in the 2014 West Regional last May 16. The Division II-era single-game program record is six hits. Mann also went 4-for-5 on Feb. 28 at East Bay.

SHUTOUTS ON SHUTOUTS
With two more shutouts to begin its home series with Cal State Monterey Bay, UCSD has nine in 2015 through 40 games, having produced seven a year ago in 54. Nine is the new program record for the NCAA Division II era, since 2001. The Tritons are second nationally in Division II, behind only Franklin Pierce (11). In completing back-to-back-to-back shutouts to begin its series with Cal State Dominguez Hills, Feb. 19-21, UCSD achieved the feat of three straight shutouts for the first time in program history, dating back through the 1980 season. The Tritons on five previous occasions had posted two successive shutouts, most recently at home to start off the 2014 series with the Toros, on March 6 (1-0) and March 7 (7-0). They then did it again on April 10-11 against the visiting Otters, 8-0 and 5-0.

TRITONS CRUZ OVER TO FIRST BASE
Junior All-American Troy Cruz and teammates Justin Flatt and Jack Larsen have each drawn 29 walks to share the CCAA lead. They are tied for 15th nationally. UCSD comfortably tops the CCAA in walks as a team (209), with CSUMB second at 168, and is third in the country. Tritons take up four of the top five spots in the conference in walks, with Erik Lewis (26) fifth. A year ago, it was Nick La Face (47), Lewis (42) and Justin Rahn (35) all ahead of the CCAA pack.

STREAKS SNAPPED
UCSD had gone 15 straight CCAA sets without suffering a series loss, going back to a road trip to Cal State Monterey Bay to end the 2013 campaign, before a 3-1 loss to Cal Poly Pomona, April 2-4 ... The Tritons had in fact won six straight completed CCAA sets, including all five this year (not including the in-progress CSUSB series), going back to a 3-1 win over CSUSB to conclude the 2014 regular season ... The Tritons played error-free baseball over a six-game road stretch from March 22-29 prior to the April 2 home date vs. CPP, with their Division II-era best still standing at seven straight (March 27-April 9, 2010) ... Gradeigh Sanchez had his career-best 10-game hit streak and 15-game reached-base streak end at CPP on April 4 ... Justin Donatella had won his first six CCAA starts this year prior to taking a no-decision against CPP on April 2 ... Justin Donatella strung together a career-best streak of 34.1 innings of shutout baseball (first 31.2 frames of CCAA play) between Feb. 6-March 21 ... Erik Lewis had his lengthy reached-base streak going back to last season snapped at 40 games on Feb. 28.

DONNY DONS AWARDS FOR DOMINANT STARTS
Justin Donatella has now twice in 2015 won both the CCAA and NCBWA West Region Pitcher of the Week awards, first for his one-hit shutout at Cal State East Bay on Feb. 27 with 11 strikeouts on just 98 pitches, and then for another six innings of shutout baseball with a season-high 12 strikeouts in a home win over Cal State Monterey Bay on April 10. At East Bay, Donatella retired the first 14 Pioneers he faced, with the home side managing just a two-out single through the left side in the fifth inning, and a leadoff hit-by-pitch in the seventh. He registered eight more outs on grounders, and the other eight on fly balls, also handling all four of his defensive chances cleanly with three assists on comebackers and one putout. Donatella's very next outing of 7.1 shutout frames with nine strikeouts against Chico State, garnered him a spot among 10 Collegiate Baseball Newspaper National Players of the Week from all levels of college baseball.

PROGRAM FIRST FOR DONATELLA
Justin Donatella's remarkable performance at Cal State East Bay on Feb. 27 marked the first one-hit, nine-inning shutout by an individual Triton pitcher in the Division II era, since 2001. Former standouts Tim Shibuya (7.0 IP) and Elias Tuma (2.0) previously combined on a one-hit, nine-inning shutout in another defeat of Cal State East Bay, 1-0, on Feb. 19, 2011. Five Triton arms teamed up on a nine-inning one-hitter on Feb. 5, 2002, in a 3-1 victory at crosstown rival Point Loma. The only no-hitter for UCSD's Division II days came from Trevor Decker against then-top-ranked Cal State Stanislaus, a 6-0 home triumph in seven innings back on March 14, 2009.

YOUNG OUTFIELD
All but two of the 120 combined starts in the UCSD outfield in 2015 have come from redshirt freshman Justin Flatt, redshirt sophomore Brandon Shirley, and true sophomores Jack Larsen and Christian Leung. Flatt, Shirley and Larsen started left to right in each of the first 17 games. Leung's play has earned him 13 starts in right field since, with Larsen moving back over to center, where he made all 44 of his starts as a freshman in 2014. The outfielders have combined for 10 of the Tritons' 14 home runs, with Larsen accounting for a team-best five. Flatt served as the leadoff hitter for the first six contests, with Shirley taking over at the top of the order for the next 11. Flatt reached base safely in each of the first 12 games, then in a team season-best 20 straight from Feb. 24-April 7, and in 36 of the 39 games he has played in. Larsen, who has batted either third or fourth in the lineup, is second on the team in average (.372), and first in RBI (40), multi-hit (14) and multi-RBI (11) games. He is second in the CCAA in RBI, and fourth in hitting.

VETERAN INFIELD
Over the first 40 games, the Tritons have generally started the same veteran infield. Just like in 2014, it's been Troy Cruz at third base, Erik Lewis at second and Michael Mann at first, with Tyler Howsley, a part-time starter at shortstop as a freshman a year ago, taking over that spot for good. The only exceptions have been at third for the nine games when Cruz has been on the mound, and six starts at first between Zach Friedman and Justin Flatt. Brett Levy has been behind the plate for 23 of the 40 games, with fellow fourth-year senior Brian Choi drawing four starts. UCSD's middle infield has exclusively been Howsley and Lewis, with Cruz the only other Triton to start all 40 games, though 31 of his starts have come at third, with nine on the mound.

STATISTICAL ODDS AND ENDS
Justin Flatt reached base in 20 straight games, the longest run by a Triton this year, through April 7 ... Gradeigh Sanchez, UCSD's leadoff batter the last 16 contests, has produced the longest hit streak by a Triton in 2015, with his career-best 10-gamer through April 3 ... UCSD is an even 6-6 against nationally-ranked opponents in 2015 ... The Tritons never trailed during their four-game home sweep over then-20th-ranked archrival Chico State, March 6-8, and have not lost a series to the Wildcats since 2007 in Chico (3-1) ... Redshirt freshman catcher Steven Coe has thrown out six of 14 (.429) would-be base-stealers this season ... The Tritons' nine-run eighth inning in the 19-2 home romp over Azusa Pacific on April 7, was their largest frame since collecting 11 runs in the ninth during a 17-3 win at SF State on April 18, 2014 ... UCSD has tallied exactly 19 runs twice this season, having last had at least two efforts with 19 or more, in 2010 ... UCSD is 23-6 when scoring first (with three such losses vs. CPP), and 8-1 when scoring in the first inning ... The Tritons are 21-1 when out-hitting their opponent, and 24-5 when scoring at least four runs.

POWER UP
The Tritons hit five home runs during their season-opening four-game series with Western Oregon, having needed 38 contests to achieve that total in 2014. Prior to the 8-3 victory in the nightcap with Western Oregon on Feb. 1, the previous time that UCSD hit three home runs in a single game was a 10-5 loss at Cal Poly Pomona on Feb. 23, 2012. The Tritons have done it twice in 2015, launching three more long balls to open the doubleheader at Cal State East Bay on March 1. Brian Choi's grand slam in that Western Oregon contest was the first by a Triton since Justin Rahn's against CPP in the third inning of a 20-5 triumph during the NCAA West Regional in La Jolla on May 16, 2014. Having finished 2014 with 11 home runs in 54 games, UCSD has 14 through 40 games this season.

HIT-BY-PITCH RECORD
Cal State Dominguez Hills pitchers hit UCSD batters a total of nine times during a 19-0 drubbing in game one of the Feb. 21 doubleheader in La Jolla. That constituted a Triton program record at least for the Division II era (since 2001), and likely all-time. UCSD was plunked seven times in a single game four times prior, in 2007, 2005, 2004 and 2003.

CRUZ A STAR OF THE YEAR
UCSD junior Troy Cruz was named on Jan. 14 as one of eight San Diego Hall of Champions Amateur Stars of the Year for 2014. The local product out of Chula Vista (Bonita Vista HS) was a two-time SDHOC Star of the Month during the 2014 calendar year. He helped guide UCSD to a record sixth CCAA tournament title and into the NCAA postseason, excelling as both an infielder and pitcher. Cruz was recognized at the 69th Annual Salute to the Champions on Feb. 23 at the Town and Country Convention Center. Both he and Triton head coach Eric Newman were in attendance, with Cruz addressing the crowd. Read a Triton Q&A with Cruz here.

TRITON NOTES
Troy Cruz went a perfect 4-0 in his four starts in March, with a 2.10 ERA, 24 strikeouts and a single walk in 25.2 innings, earning him the third San Diego Hall of Champions Star of the Month award of his Triton career ... Justin Donatella's incredible February (3-1, 0.36 ERA, 33 strikeouts) with a shutout streak of 23.2 innings, earned him a first career San Diego Hall of Champions Star of the Month selection ... Trevor Scott and Jack Larsen were named on Feb. 3 as the 2015 season's first CCAA Baseball Pitcher and Player of the Week, respectively ... Troy Cruz was chosen to the NCBWA Preseason All-America Third Team at the utility spot, with Cruz (first team), Justin Donatella (second) and Erik Lewis (second) each named to NCBWA Preseason All-West Region teams (Jan. 23) ... UCSD was picked to place third in the 2015 CCAA regular-season race by the league's 11 head coaches, as announced on Jan. 27, with reigning West Region champion Chico State favored.

ROSTER NOTES
UCSD's 36-player 2015 roster features 17 letterwinners, seven returning redshirts and 12 newcomers ... The Tritons have retained six out of nine regular position players and three of four starting pitchers ... UCSD returns a quartet of all-conference performers from a year ago in junior All-American and two-time All-CCAA First Team selection Troy Cruz, senior Erik Lewis (first team), junior Justin Donatella (first) and senior Michael Mann (third) ... All but two players on the roster, junior pitcher Alon Leichman (Kibbutz Gezer, Israel) and redshirt freshman Tim White (Stratford, CT), are California natives ... Besides Cruz (Chula Vista/Bonita Vista HS), the five other San Diego products are redshirt freshman catcher Steven Coe (Valley Center/Valley Center HS), and newcomers Troy Forester (Carlsbad/Palomar College/Carlsbad HS), Cameron Kurz (Encinitas/La Costa Canyon HS), Tyler Plantier (Poway/Del Norte HS), and Jack Rupe, Jr. (San Marcos/Mission Hills HS) ... Plantier is the son of Phil Plantier, who played eight seasons in Major League Baseball for five franchises, and served as the hitting coach of the hometown San Diego Padres from 2011-14 ... Tyler Howsley, Jack Larsen and Gradeigh Sanchez all played together at Mission Viejo's Capistrano Valley High School.

SCHEDULE BREAKDOWN
UCSD's 2015 schedule consists of 49 regular-season games, including 28 at home within the friendly confines of Triton Ballpark. The Tritons faced CCAA favorite Chico State at home for the second year in a row, sweeping that four-game series between archrivals, March 6-8. UCSD wrapped up a season-opening, season-long 11-game homestand on Feb. 17. The CCAA Championship will be held in the neutral-site city of Stockton for the third year in a row, but after the previous two editions took place at Banner Island Ballpark, the four-team tournament is headed back to Klein Family Field on the campus of the University of the Pacific, May 7-10. It would be a familiar locale for the Tritons, who won their third and fourth CCAA tourney titles back-to-back at the venue when the event was held there previously in 2010 and 2011.

HEAD COACH ERIC NEWMAN
Eric Newman is in his fourth season as the UCSD head coach. The 2012 CCAA Coach of the Year has a 123-78 record (93-54 CCAA) in charge of the Tritons and 218-150 overall in his six-plus seasons as a head coach. Newman guided UCSD to the 2012 CCAA regular-season and tournament titles in his first go-around in La Jolla, and a subsequent trip to the NCAA Division II West Regional. His Tritons won a record sixth conference tourney crown last May in Stockton, to again nab the CCAA's automatic berth into the NCAA Championship. With UCSD earning the region's top seed, Triton Ballpark played host to the 2014 NCAA West Regional. Newman has now led the Tritons to two CCAA banners and two NCAA postseason appearances in his three years, as well as two 30-win campaigns. He previously went 95-72 in three seasons at the helm of Dallas Baptist University from 2005-07.

ABOUT THE WARRIORS
Cal State Stanislaus (18-20, 13-15 CCAA) is arguably the hottest team in the CCAA. The Warriors have won 11 of 13, with three straight series victories preceding Tuesday's 10-2 home victory over Chico State in a make-up contest. They posted a 3-1 series win at home over Cal State L.A. last weekend, following a four-game sweep at Cal State San Bernardino. The set with CSULA was bookended by a pair of come-from-behind, walk-off triumphs, 5-3 in 11 innings on Friday night after a two-run eighth, and 6-5 through a three-run ninth on Sunday. This stretch has come on the heels of a 2-13 start to CCAA play, with four straight series defeats. Stanislaus is now just three games in the loss column behind fourth-place Cal State Monterey Bay, still in the hunt for a postseason berth with 12 to play. Senior catcher Marcus Mastrobuoni leads the team and is fifth in the CCAA with his .369 batting average, though the Warriors' team ERA is 5.09. Kenny Leonesio is in his 13th season as the Cal State Stanislaus head coach.

SERIES HISTORY
UCSD leads the all-time series between these teams, 40-24, and has won six straight. The Tritons have taken the season series in each of the last eight years, with a four-game sweep in Turlock a year ago (13-4, 5-4, 10-1, 4-3) following back-to-back 3-1 successes. The 2013 match-up in La Jolla featured a pair of shutouts, 4-0 and 3-0 (seven innings), an 8-7 Triton triumph in the finale, and a 4-3 loss in 10 innings. The Warriors narrowly salvaged the seven-inning finale of the 2012 set in Turlock, 7-6, after UCSD had clinched the win by final scores of 3-2, 11-4 and 12-8. The lone loss snapped a 15-game win streak for the Tritons against Stanislaus going back to May 9, 2008. UCSD swept in 2009 and 2011 in La Jolla, around a sweep in Turlock in 2010. The Tritons last dropped a series to the Warriors in Turlock in 2006, 3-1. They are 39-18 against Stanislaus since joining the CCAA for the 2001 campaign, including 21-7 in Turlock with a 6-1 series mark there.

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UCSD has one game next week, hosting Cal State San Bernardino in the finale of a four-game series on Tuesday night, April 21. First pitch at Triton Ballpark is set for 6 p.m., with the Tritons holding a 2-1 edge from the first three games played from March 21-22. UCSD is then idle from competition over the weekend before wrapping up the regular season against Cal State L.A., April 30-May 2.

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