Box Score | POMONA, Calif. – After big swings of momentum Friday at Scolinos Field ended with the game suspended because of darkness, Cal Poly Pomona and UC San Diego restarted a 7-7 extra-inning game on Saturday in La Jolla.
As the game resumed Saturday,
Andy Amaro held the Tritons scoreless in the top of the 11th. Then in the bottom half of the inning,
Steven Andrade reached base on a one-out walk and then moved to second on a
Mike Philp sacrifice bunt. With two outs,
Trevor Magno lined the game-winning single into right field to give the Broncos the 8-7 walk-off victory.
CPP improves to 11-1 overall and 5-1 in league play. The two teams continued with their regularly scheduled doubleheader starting at 2 p.m. Saturday.
The Broncos trailed 4-0 early in Friday's game before rallying to tie the score with four runs in the third. CPP also faced a 6-5 deficit heading into the bottom of the eighth but after scoring twice in that frame, the Broncos took a 7-6 lead into the ninth.
CPP couldn't shut down the Tritons in the top of the ninth though and after UCSD pulled even at 7-7 to send the game into extras, neither team could score in the 10th inning before the sunset forced the umpires to suspend the game going into the 11th.
Four Broncos finished with multi-hit performances, including a 3-for-4 effort from designated hitter
Jason Padlo in his first start of the season.
Joseph Eusebio,
Chris Carlson and
Christian Kelley collected two hits apiece.
The suspended game represents an anticlimactic end to CPP's productive 10-game homestand. The Broncos are 10-1 overall and 4-1 in conference play.
For the second-straight game, the Tritons broke through for multiple runs in their first turn at the plate. Helped by three walks from Broncos' right-hander starter
Steven Farnworth, UCSD jumped out to a 4-0 lead.
While Farnworth settled in nicely after that inning, the CPP offense also came alive. In the bottom of the third,
Matt Muñoz reached on an error to start a Bronco rally.
David Armendariz and Eusebio delivered RBI hits while
Bo Walter capped it all off with a two-run single that evened the score 4-4.
The tie score only lasted for one full inning, until the Tritons stole the lead back from the Broncos. After UCSD carried a 6-4 edge into the bottom of the seventh, CPP was forced once again to stage a comeback.
Muñoz contributed an RBI hit in the seventh to pull the margin to 6-5. Then in the eighth, Carlson and Eusebio initiated the Broncos' rally with back-to-back singles. Padlo connected for the game-tying hit and a fielder's choice groundout by
Steven Andrade allowed Eusebio to cross home for the go-ahead run.