LA JOLLA, Calif. – The University of California, San Diego baseball team completed its opening weekend sweep over Concordia Portland with a dominate 14-3 win at Triton Ballpark. The offense hit its full stride in the final game of the series.
Both
Blake Baumgartner and
Anthony Lucchetti went 2-for-3 from the plate. Baumgartner had two RBI's and four runs while Lucchetti had three runs.
Freshman
Chris Gilmartin got the call to start on the mound. After allowing a single to left field off his first pitch of the day, Gilmartin brushed it off and retired the next three batters. Gilmartin would finish the game with a pair of strikeouts and earn the win to cap off what was an impressive weekend for Triton pitchers.
"Pitching really came through for us," Lauded Head Coach
Eric Newman. "Loved what I saw from all of our pitchers this weekend. They really pounded the strike zone and attacked the hitters."
The Tritons were opportunistic and took advantage of Concordia miscues from the pitching staff. The Cavaliers sent eight players to first base due to being hit by pitches. The staff also combined for five walks.
UC San Diego recorded its first set of steals on the season with
Brandon Stewart and
Michael Fuhrman stealing second.
After loading the bases thanks to a walk and a hit pitch,
Marc Filia drilled a ball past the second basemen into center field and drove two runners in to take a 2-0 lead at the bottom of the third.
The offense broke the game open in the fourth inning and poured in six runs.
Anthony Lucchetti, Fuhrman, Stewart and
Blake FitzGerald each recorded RBI's with Fuhrman and Stewart each recording a pair.
Concordia would get their first run of the game in the sixth inning to cut into the Triton's lead at 11-1.
Blake Baumgartner would respond later in the inning with a solo home run to right center.
The Tritons start their series with Point Loma tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Point Loma.
About UC San Diego Athletics
With 30 national team championships, nearly 150 individual titles, and the top student-athlete graduation rate among Division II institutions in the United States, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program annually ranks as one of the most successful in the country. The Tritons sponsor 23 intercollegiate sport programs that compete on the NCAA Division I and II levels and, in the summer of 2020, begin a four-year transition into full Division I status as a member of the Big West Conference. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's pre-eminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent. A total of 82 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 37 have earned prestigious NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarships. In competition, almost 1,400 UC San Diego scholar-athletes have earned All-America honors.
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