Chad Cordero fanned all three batters he faced in the ninth as No. 17
Cal State Fullerton held on to beat UCLA, 7-6, in the make-up of an April
23 game that UCLA successfully protested.
The game was resumed at Goodwin Field (though the original game was played
at UCLA's Jackie Robinson Stadium) in the top of the ninth with one out.
UCLA Coach Gary Adams successfully protested the Titans' 9-7 win on April
23, arguing that the Titans batted out of order in the ninth.
With the final inning in the books, the first eight innings are now official.
Here's a recap of what happened on April 23:
Richie Burgos had career highs with five hits and four RBI and Shane Costa
extended his hitting streak to 22 games as No. 11 Cal State Fullerton
held off UCLA, 9-7, in a nonconference game at Jackie Robinson Stadium
Tuesday night.
Travis Ingle, who pitched a pre-designated four innings, had a no-hitter
through 3.1 of those innings and picked up the win to improve to 2-1.
Burgos, who was 5-for-5, became the first Titan to get five hits in a
game since Mike Rouse was 5-for-6 in a 28-0 win over Pacific on April
8, 2001. He had singles in the first, second, fourth, sixth and ninth
innings. Five other Titans had two hits each, including Costa, who extended
his streak with a second-inning RBI-single.
As a team, the Titans had 17 hits – 16 of which were singles –
and Chris Klosterman was the only starter without a hit.
The Titans, who had scored 51 first-inning runs coming in (14 more than
any other inning), scored two in the first frame, with Burgos driving
in Justin Smyres and Geoff Comfort with his single up the middle off UCLA
starter Mike Davern (0-2), the first of eight UCLA pitchers.The Titans
added four more runs in the second to grab a 6-0 lead, but then had to
hold back a Bruin comeback.
Chris Jensen, Josh Arhart and Wes Whisler had consecutive singles in the
fourth to score the Bruins' first run. After a throwing error by second
baseman David Munoz, Brandon Averill drove in two more with a hard single
up the middle. The Bruins were threatening for more before Ingle got Kevin
Conlin to line out to short with the bases loaded. An inning later, the
Bruins further tightened the gap, when Josh Arhart blasted a two-run homer
to left-center off Jeff Housman to make it 6-5.
The teams exchanged runs in the sixth.
