LA JOLLA, Calif.— UC San Diego baseball won its 30th game of the 2024 season and secured the series against Cal Poly after taking game two by a score of 12-7 on Saturday afternoon in Triton Ballpark. The Tritons (30-22, 17-12 Big West) are now 9-3 all-time against the Mustangs (32-21, 17-9 Big West) and 2-0 in the weekend series.
 
Six players recorded RBIs on the day, with Emiliano Gonzalez (2-for-4) and Nick Costello (1-for-3) leading with three apiece. Benjamin Rosengard (3-for-4) and Anthony Potestio (3-for-4) each had two RBIs, while Brock Kleszcz (0-for-3) and Noah Sudyka (2-for-4) each got one.  
 
Zach Ernisse started at pitcher for the Tritons, giving up a hit, three runs, and three walks. In three innings, Spencer Seid (5-2) conceded three hits, three runs, and threw two strikeouts to earn the victory. Xavier Franco stepped in to close the sixth inning, giving up a hit, before Landon Marchetti came in. His two innings consisted of three hits, a run, and a walk. Izaak Martinez closed the game in the final inning, allowing one hit. 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED 
Cal Poly got on the board first with an infield hit in the opening inning. The 1-0 lead was quickly leveled in the bottom of the inning via a Potestio sacrifice flyout that sent Costello home. Gonzalez then hit a two-run homer over right field wall to make it 3-1. 
 
Costello followed suit in the second inning with a centerfield home run to bring Rosengard and Sudyka home. Gonzalez collected another RBI with a sacrifice fly to make it 7-1. 
 
The Mustangs remained competitive, sending home two runners in the third inning, making it 7-3. Hackworth responded with a leadoff triple, making it 8-3 with a Kleszcz sacrifice flyout. 
 
Rosengard was the next to get it over the right field fence in the fifth inning, bringing home Hackworth with him to make it 10-3, Tritons. Potestio singled three batters later to bring in Sudyka and make it 11-3. 
 
After entering in the third inning, Seid retired eight Mustangs in order before Cal Poly rallied in the top of the sixth. The visitors added three runs thanks to a pair of RBI singles and a wild pitch, making it 11-6. In the bottom of the inning, Sudyka brought in Kleszcz with an infield single to bring the score to 12-6 to finish the sixth inning. 
 
Cal Poly scraped another run together with a single in the seventh inning to make it 12-7. 
 
Marchetti retired the Mustangs in order in the eighth and after giving up a leadoff single in the ninth, Martinez collected three quick outs in succession to close out the contest.
 
TRITON TIDBITS 

• Emiliano Gonzalez hit his sixth, Benjamin Rosengard got his third, and Nick Costello earned his tenth home run of the season. 
• Costello now ranks fourth in the Big West in home runs and Gonzalez ranks ninth in runs batted in.
• Patrick Hackworth hit his second triple of the season and is now tied with Benjamin Rosengard for the team lead in that category.
• It was the seventh Big West series win of the season for the Tritons and 10th overall in 2024.
• For the second consecutive season, the Tritons recorded 30 wins in just their fourth season of Division I competition.
• UC San Diego moved to 9-3 in the all-time series with Cal Poly and 2-0 on the weekend.

UP NEXT 
UC San Diego will play its the final game of the 2024 season on Sunday in the series finale with Cal Poly. The game will serve as Senior Day where the team will honor its 13 departing seniors prior to first pitch at 1 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+ with live statistics 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 earned 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.