decriscio
7
Winner San Diego USD 7-6
1
Grand Canyon GCU 9-6
Winner
San Diego USD
7-6
7
Final
1
Grand Canyon GCU
9-6
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
San Diego USD 0 3 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 7 15 0
Grand Canyon GCU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 1

W: Mautz, Brycen (3-1) L: Markl, Connor (3-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Bats Come Alive, Mautz Dazzles in 7-1 Win at GCU

Toreros even series with Lopes on Saturday night at GCU Ballpark

PHOENIX — Sophomore lefty Brycen Mautz (Westview High School) turned in his most dominant start at USD yet, the Torero offense tied its season high with 15 hits at the plate, and San Diego baseball (7-6, 0-0 WCC) cruised to a 7-1 victory over Grand Canyon (9-6, 3-0 WAC) on Saturday night at GCU Ballpark for its first road win of 2022.

Mautz (3-1) tossed seven shutout innings on the mound, scattering three hits and walking only one as he struck out nine en-route to receiving his third win of the season.

Ten different USD players notched a hit, including two three-hit performances and a two-hit performance. San Diego scored three in the second inning, two in the fourth, and one in both the seventh and eighth innings to secure the victory.

HOW IT HAPPENED
  • True freshman infielder Justin DeCriscio got the scoring started for the Toreros in the top of the second, singling through the left side to bring home sophomore infielder Will Worthington.
  • Fellow sophomore infielder Chase Meidroth kept things rolling with an RBI single through the left side of his own, and USD had itself a 3-0 advantage.
  • Worthington, who hails from Phoenix and attended nearby Brophy College Prep, added on in the top of the fourth with a booming home run to left field, a solo blast that moved the score to 4-0 in addition to marking his first homer of the season and his second career longball.
  • Three frames later, sophomore infielder Kevin Sim (Torrey Pines High School) split the right-center field gap with a towering double, bringing home sophomore utility player Jack Costello to make it a 6-0 game.
  • DeCriscio bookended the Toreros scoring efforts with one final insurance run in the eighth, beating out a ground ball to shortstop for his third hit of the evening to give his team a 7-0 advantage.
  • Grand Canyon got on the board in the bottom of the eighth via an RBI single from Elijah Buries to make it 7-1 but would get no closer, with redshirt sophomore right-hander James Sashin shutting down the Lopes to earn his team the victory.
TORERO TIDBITS
  • After striking out nine on Saturday night Mautz leads the Toreros with 45 total strikeouts so far this season, a mark that is among the top five in all of NCAA Division I.
  • DeCriscio was 3-for-4 with three singles, two RBIs, and two runs scored for his first college multi-hit performance.
  • Costello matched DeCriscio's hit total with a double and two singles, marking his seventh multi-hit performance of 2022 and his 24th career college game with more than one hit.
  • The Simi Valley, California native has hit safely in all but one of the Toreros' 13 games so far this year, and has a hit in 42 of the 54 games he's played thus far at the college level.
  • True freshman Ariel Armas (St. Augustine High School) was 1-for-5 with a run scored, junior shortstop Cody Jefferis was also 1-for-5, and redshirt freshman utility player Kyle Carr (San Marcos High School) notched his first hit in a USD uniform (a double in the top of the eighth) after missing all of last year and the beginning of this season with injuries.
  • Sashin took over for Mautz in the eighth and threw two frames for USD to finish it, allowing two hits and a run and walking none as he struck out three.
UP NEXT
The Toreros conclude their series against the Lopes tomorrow afternoon. First pitch at GCU Ballpark is set for 12 p.m. PST.
 
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