LUBBOCK, Texas—UC San Diego baseball downed Texas Tech on the road, 11-10, on Tuesday evening in Rip Griffin Park. The Tritons (8-4) earned their fifth win over a Big 12 opponent in six games, taking the first ever meeting with the Red Raiders (2-8).
 
Gabe Camacho led the UC San Diego baseball team with three RBI and a home run in the game. Michael Crossland contributed to the scoreboard with three runs, a home run, and an RBI. Trevian Martinez was another key player, securing three RBI and hitting a double contributing to 12 hits for the Tritons. Noah Lazuka (2-for-4), J.C. Allen (2-for-3), Cooper Thacker (2-for-4) and Martinez (2-for-4) all turned in multi-hit performances.
 
Jake Villar started on the mound for the Tritons, pitching 3.1 innings, allowing four hits, two runs (one earned), with two walks and one strikeout. Landon Marchetti (1-1) delivered a scoreless inning in the sixth, striking out two and walking two without allowing a hit to earn the victory. Steele Murdock pitched the ninth inning, conceding two hits and one earned run, with one strikeout and no walks to earn his first collegiate save.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Tritons took an early, 2-0, lead in the second inning with Emiliano Gonzalez scoring on Martinez's double to right center, followed by a single from Thacker that brought Martinez home. Texas Tech got one run back in the bottom of the inning but the Tritons held on to the 2-1 lead. 
 
In the third, the Tritons extended their lead with Allen scoring on a bases-loaded walk by Martinez, and Hackworth's single driving in two more runs, bringing the score to 5-1 in favor of the Tritons.
 
The fourth inning saw the Tritons further cement their advantage. Camacho hit a three-run home run to right field, followed by Martinez's RBI single that scored Crossland, making it 9-1. The Red Raiders added another run in the bottom of the inning and had the bases loaded with one out. A double to Thacker at shortstop ended the threat and kept the Tritons lead, 9-2.
 
Texas Tech got two more runs back in the fifth on a two-run homer, making it 9-4. 
 
The eighth inning featured Lazuka's solo homer to left center to help the Tritons reach double-digits, 10-4. The Red Raiders made things interesting in the bottom of the eighth, scoring five runs on three hits—including two homers and a triple—and one error to cut the lead to one, 10-9.
 
Crossland added an insurance run for the Tritons in the top of the ninth with a leadoff home run to left field which proved to be the difference in the ballgame. In the bottom of the inning, the Red Raiders rallied one last time with a home run to cut the lead to one again. Texas Tech advanced the tying run to third base with two outs before Murdock shut down the comeback with a strikeout to end the ballgame.
 
Despite the late push by the Red Raiders, the Tritons secured an 11-10 victory, amassing 12 hits and leaving six runners on base compared to 10 hits and seven runners left stranded for Texas Tech.
 
TRITON TIDBITS

• Four Tritons recorded multi-hit games including J.C. Allen, Noah Lazuka, Trevian Martinez and Cooper Thacker.
• The Tritons hit three home runs in the contest and are now tied for first place in the Big West with 18 this season.
  • Noah Lazuka knocked his first homer in a Triton uniform in the contest. Michael Crossland recorded his fourth to lead the team and Gabe Camacho hit his second.
• Steele Murdock recorded his first collegiate save, coming in to pitch the ninth.
• UC San Diego is 1-0 in the all-time series with Texas Tech.

UP NEXT
The Tritons will remain in Lubbock for game two of the midweek series with Texas Tech on  Wednesday at 12 p.m. PT. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+ and live statistics will be available via UCSDTritons.com.
 
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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.