LA JOLLA, Calif.—UC San Diego baseball secured the program's first series sweep of Long Beach State with a 10-1 victory on Sunday afternoon in Triton Ballpark. The Tritons (12-6, 3-0 Big West) now have back-to-back series sweeps and start the conference season 3-0. 
 
Freshman Anthony Eyanson (2-0) pitched a gem against the Dirtbags (10-8, 0-3 Big West), working 6.1 shutout innings and allowing just one hit with a career-high nine strikeouts.
 
Michael Fuhrman hit a three-run homer for the second game in a row and finished the day 3-for-4 with three RBI and three runs scored. Patrick Hackworth went 4-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored and Matt Halbach got his first home run of the season, a two-run shot.
 
The Tritons tallied 16 hits in the contest—their 12th game with 10 or more hits—while holding LBSU to three hits for the second game in a row.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Tritons took the early lead in the bottom of the first on a two-run homer to left field by Halbach.
 
Eyanson struck out the first three batters to come to the plate for LBSU and faced just two over the minimum through the first six innings. 
 
UC San Diego added to its lead in the fourth and scored in four consecutive innings, beginning with an RBI double by Hackworth. The Tritons got three more in the fifth on the three-run homer by Fuhrman and another run in the sixth with an RBI double by Doyle Kane to make it 7-0.
 
The Tritons broke the game open in the seventh with another three-run inning, highlighted by an RBI double by Brock Kleszcz and UC San Diego extended its lead 10-0. 
 
The Dirtbags ended the shutout with a solo home run in the eighth inning, but the pitching combo of Ryan Rissas and Seth Sumner limited LBSU to just one batter over the minimum to close out the final two innings and secure the victory for the Tritons.
 
TRITON TIDBITS

• Anthony Eyanson collected his second win of the season with a career-best nine strikeouts.
• Fuhrman recorded his second three-run home run in as many games and Halbach got his first of the season.
• Hackworth, Larson, Gonzalez, Fuhrman and Kleszcz all turned in multi-hit performances.
• The Tritons currently have eight hitters that meet the minimum of 75% of games played who are batting over .300.
• UC San Diego currently leads the Big West with a team batting average of .316 with the second closest team batting .287.
  • Halbach and Kane continue to lead the conference in hits with 27 each.
• The Tritons improved to 6-4 in the all-time series with Long Beach State.

 
UP NEXT
The Tritons will play host to CSU Bakersfield for a weekend series beginning Friday at 6 p.m. in Triton Ballpark. 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.