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Alex Leopard vs SDSU
Derrick Tuskan/UC San Diego
6
CSUN CSUN 8-23
23
Winner UC San Diego UCSD 16-18
CSUN CSUN
8-23
6
Final
23
UC San Diego UCSD
16-18
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
CSUN CSUN 1 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 6 14 1
UC San Diego UCSD 5 6 2 1 0 0 5 4 X 23 19 0

W: Villar, Jake (1-3) L: Mendes, Max (2-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | by Senji Torrey '25

Offense Erupts in Finale with CSUN

UC San Diego defeated the Matadors, 23-6, on Sunday afternoon

LA JOLLA, Calif.—The runs were rolling for UC San Diego baseball on Sunday afternoon as the Tritons (16-18, 7-8 Big West) took a 23-6 victory over CSUN at Triton Ballpark. With the win, the Tritons took the series, 2-1, over the Matadors (8-23, 4-14 Big West).
 
Alex Leopard had a career day on Sunday, hitting three home runs for eight RBI—both single game records for UC San Diego—including the Tritons' first grand slam of the season and a pair of two-run home runs. Colton Lomanto and Cooper Thacker hit a pair of doubles, good for three and two RBI, respectively. Anthony Potestio, Gabe Camacho and Patrick Hackworth all collected two RBI.
 
Steele Murdock made his fourth start of the season, striking out four and walking one, while giving up four runs on eight hits. Jake Villar finished out the fifth inning and pitched until the seventh in a two strikeout, one hit campaign. Chapman Weber stepped in for the seventh inning, striking out a batter and giving up two runs on three hits. Devon King pitched the eighth inning, striking out three and Ethan Remmers finished off the game, giving up one hit in a 1-2-3 inning. 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED 
CSUN stole home after baiting a second base steal to get on the board in the first inning. The lead would last only until the bottom of the inning, however, as the Tritons loaded the bases and advanced along the basepath with a Lomanto walk. 
 
Leopard took the very next pitch well over the right field fence for a grand slam to make it 5-1 heading into the second inning. 
The Tritons added six runs on four hits in the second inning to build an 11-1 advantage. Crossland knocked an RBI double to left field and Camacho brought in two more runs with a triple down the right field line. Lomanto brought in Camacho with a double down the left field line and Leopard capped the inning with another right field bomb.   
Emiliano Gonzalez and Camacho each collected an RBI double to make it 13-1 in the third inning before CSUN cut into the lead, 13-2, off a bases-loaded walk in the fourth. The visitors clawed back two runs in the fifth inning via a home run over the right field wall, and surged in the seventh for another two runs off a double and single to make it 14-6.  
 
The hosts responded in the bottom of the seventh with another Leopard home run to retain the double-digit lead, 16-6. A Hackworth RBI single to shallow center field brought in one run, before making it home himself off a Potestio RBI single to make it 18-6.    
Thacker, Hackworth, and Thomas Maher kept the runs rolling in the eighth with an RBI double, RBI single and sacrifice flyout respectively to make it 23-6 going into the final inning. 
 
TRITON TIDBITS 
  • Alex Leopard's eight RBI ties UC San Diego's all-time single-game RBI record (Tyler Durna vs Cal St. East Bay; March 29, 2018 & Justin Rahn vs Cal Poly Pomona; May 16, 2014) and his three home runs ties the all-time single-game HR record (Matt Cantele vs Cal St. Dominguez Hills; March 29, 2007) as well. Both statistics are top for the Tritons in the Division I era.
  • Gabe Camacho hit his first triple of season. 
  • The Tritons hit 10 extra base hits on Sunday afternoon. 
  • Jake Villar picked up the first win of his Triton career on Sunday. 
  • UC San Diego's 23 runs is the highest run count since joining Division I in 2020, and the highest since April 21, 2018 (26-8 win vs Cal St. San Bernadino). 
  • UC San Diego is now 9-7 all-time against CSUN; the series record now also has a 2-1 Triton advantage. 
UP NEXT 
UC San Diego takes a beat away from conference play to take on San Diego State on Tuesday at 6 p.m. The road 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 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 84 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.
 
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