SAN DIEGO — San Diego baseball (22-11, 9-5 WCC) earned perhaps its two most resilient wins of the season on Friday, completing a furious comeback in the resumption of its suspended game from Thursday night before again rallying for a late-game victory in the day's originally scheduled contest to take the series against Loyola Marymount (11-22-1, 8-6 WCC).

GAME ONE (RESUMPTION OF THURSDAY NIGHT'S GAME):
San Diego 9, Loyola Marymount 8 (14 innings)

• Loyola Marymount began Thursday night's contest by jumping out to a 6-0 lead, doing so via a home run, a double, and a pair of singles.
• San Diego answered back in the bottom of the third when sophomore infielder Chase Meidroth grounded into a double play that brought home junior shortstop Cody Jefferis, moving the score to 6-1.
• After the Lions struck back with a run in the top of the fourth with an RBI single, the Toreros began their comeback in earnest, bringing 11 to the plate in the bottom half of the frame as part of a six-run inning.
• Jefferis got the action started with an RBI single that brought in sophomore utility player Jack Costello, then sophomore centerfielder Dustin Allen cut the deficit to three at 7-4 with a booming double to left-center that plated sophomore utility player Angelo Peraza and junior utility player Max Jung-Goldberg.
• An RBI single from graduate utility player RJ Teijeiro that brought home Jefferis, and a pair of RBI fielder's choices (one from Meidroth that plated Allen, and one from Costello that plated Meidroth) capped the Toreros' big inning, and by the time it was finished they had erased a six-run deficit to tie the game at seven runs apiece.
• LMU retook the lead in the top of the fifth with an RBI groundout, but San Diego's comeback wasn't done yet.
• Jung-Goldberg began the bottom of the ninth with a walk and was pinch-ran for by true freshman infielder Justin DeCriscio, then Jefferis kept the line moving with a one-out single to right, advancing DeCriscio to second.
• Allen then reached on a fielder's choice to move DeCriscio to third before Teijeiro delivered the finishing blow, tying the game once again at 8-8 with a clutch RBI single to right field.
• Once extra-innings began, the two teams proceeded to put up four scoreless frames apiece, with San Diego's attack on the mound led by graduate lefty Ian Churchill, who threw six no-hit, shutout innings, striking out three against just two walks.
• Churchill's marvelous outing out of the bullpen, which began in the top of the eighth, took the game right up to Fowler Park's curfew, which forbids a new inning from beginning after 10:30 p.m.
• The game resumed at 3 p.m. on Friday afternoon in the top of the 14th with sophomore Ivran Romero (Poway High School) on the mound, and the local right-hander delivered a clutch scoreless frame, setting down the Lions in order to set the stage for the Toreros' first walk-off of the day.
• Peraza began the bottom of the 14th by wearing a pitch to advance to first base, then advanced to second on a balk.
• Jefferis moved Peraza to third with a textbook sacrifice bunt, then Allen delivered his first career walk-off, singling to right field to bring home Peraza and earn his team a wild, 9-8 comeback win in a 14-inning contest that took two different days to finish.

TORERO TIDBITS

• Teijeiro (3-for-6, 2 RBIs, BB), Allen (3-for-6, 3 RBIs, BB, R), and Jefferis (3-for-6, 2 R, RBI) all recorded three hits in the game.
• Sophomore infielder Kevin Sim (Torrey Pines High School), junior catcher Caleb Ricketts, and Jung-Goldberg all drew two walks.
• Peraza and Jefferis led the way with two runs scored each, and Allen tied the game-high with three runs batted in.
• Redshirt junior righty Ryan Robinson, Churchill, and Romero teamed up for ten scoreless innings out of the bullpen from the top of the fifth inning on, combining for six strikeouts against just two walks as they allowed only two hits.

GAME TWO (FRIDAY'S ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED GAME)
San Diego 1, Loyola Marymount 0

• Friday's second game, which began roughly 30 minutes after the conclusion of the day's first contest at 3:50 p.m., featured an old-school pitcher's duel.
• Sophomore lefty Brycen Mautz (Westview High School) traded zeros with LMU pitcher Diego Barrera all the way to the bottom of the ninth inning as both hurlers went the distance.
• For Mautz, it was the best performance of his college career thus far, a complete-game shutout that saw him scatter six hits, walk just two, and strike out eight on his way to his team-best sixth victory of the season (6-1).
• Hitless through the contest's first six frames, the Toreros finally broke through in the bottom of the seventh with a pair of singles from Sim and Ricketts.
• But it would take until the bottom of the ninth for the Toreros to get on the board, and after a masterful performance from their starter they would need just one run to earn a victory.
• Ricketts, who had guided Mautz through nine dominant innings behind the dish at catcher, started off the frame by ripping a double into the right field corner.
• Costello advanced him to third with yet another textbook sacrifice bunt before Peraza singled to right field to plate Ricketts, pushing his team to a 1-0 decision that marked its second consecutive walk-off winner.

TORERO TIDBITS

• Mautz's nine innings pitched on Friday afternoon are a career-high and the most in a single game by any San Diego pitcher in 2022.
• Ricketts led the way at the plate for San Diego with a tied-for-game-high two hits in addition to his 12th runner caught stealing of the season behind the dish.
• With a game time of four hours and 56 minutes, Thursday's 14-inning game marked the Toreros' longest game of 2022, and Friday's taut, two hour and six minute contest marked the team's shortest, edging USD's two hour and 22 minute affair against UNLV on February 26 (also a Brycen Mautz start and a 4-0 win) by 16 minutes.
• Teijeiro and Meidroth drew the Toreros' lone two walks of the game.

UP NEXT
The Toreros will conclude their series against Loyola Marymount on Saturday with an afternoon contest as they look for the sweep. First pitch at Fowler Park is set for 1 p.m.