LA JOLLA, Calif.—UC San Diego baseball took both games in the Sunday double-header with Northern Colorado to sweep the weekend series at Triton Ballpark. The Tritons (8-6) earned a 6-2 victory in game one against the Bears (2-13) and secured their first shutout of the season in game two, 8-0.
 
Jalen Smith led the Tritons offensively in game one, finishing 2-for-4 with a triple, two RBI, a run scored while Patrick Hackworth went 2-for-3 with two runs scored. Smith led UC San Diego in game two as well, going 2-for-4 with a home run, two RBI and two runs scored. Four Tritons secured two RBI in the second game of the day.
 
Nic Gregson (2-0) earned the victory in game one, pitching 5.0 innings in his first start of the season and allowing one run on two hits with one walk and five strikeouts. Ryan Rissas recorded his second save of the season in the early game. Anthony Eyanson (1-0) earned his first career victory in game two, pitching 5.0 shutout innings with five hits, one walk and a career-high eight strikeouts.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
Game 1: UC San Diego 6, Northern Colorado 2
The Tritons got on the board early in game one, taking a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first. UC San Diego added three more runs in the third with a two-RBI triple by Smith and an RBI single by Halbach to take a 4-0 lead. 
 
UNC was able to break through for a run in the top of the fifth and added one more in the sixth to cut the deficit in half. 
 
The Tritons added two important insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth to make it 6-2. The Bears rallied one last time in the ninth, getting two runners on with one out before Rissas came in from the bullpen and got a fly-out and a strikeout to end the inning unscathed and earn the save.
 
Game 2: UC San Diego 8, Northern Colorado 8
The Tritons racked up 15 hits in the second game of the day, doing most of their damage in the second inning to jump out to a 4-0 lead. UC San Diego added a run in the sixth and the seventh, before tallying two more in the eighth for the 8-0 shutout victory. 
 
The Bears stranded 10 runners on base, including loading the bases with two outs in both the third and the seventh. However, the Triton pitching staff came up clutch both times with a strikeout by Eyanson in the third and another by Izaak Martinez in the seventh to end the threats and preserve the shutout. 
 
TRITON TIDBITS

• Nic Gregson (2-0) and Anthony Eyanson (1-0) picked up wins and Ryan Rissas secured his second save.
• Smith, Halbach, Glascoe and Sudyka recorded multi-RBI for the day.
• Jalen Smith recorded the only home run of the day.
• Five Tritons turned in multi-hit performances for the day, including Hackworth, Smith, Halbach, Kane and Robinson.
• It was the first series sweep of the season for the Tritons and first since 2022 against UC Riverside.

UP NEXT
The Tritons will host UC Riverside for a Tuesday non-conference contest at 6 p.m. before beginning Big West play at home against Long Beach State beginning Friday at 6 p.m. The games will be broadcast on ESPN+ and live statistics will be available via UCSDTritons.com.
 
About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a member of The Big West Conference in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 83 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have garnered prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.