LA JOLLA, Calif. — San Diego baseball (18-9, 6-3 WCC) got back in the win column in emphatic fashion on Tuesday night, taking down UC San Diego (11-17, 3-3 Big West) by a 13-4 margin at Triton Ballpark to complete the season sweep of UCSD.

A 13-HIT BARRAGE AT THE PLATE

• Junior catcher Caleb Ricketts got the scoring started for the Toreros in the top of the first, singling through the right side to bring home sophomore infielder Kevin Sim (Torrey Pines High School).
• After the Tritons responded with a run of their own in the bottom of the frame, San Diego answered back with a six-run top of the second, moving the score to 7-1 via:
  • A bases-loaded walk from true freshman infielder Justin DeCriscio
  • An RBI single from sophomore center fielder Dustin Allen that brought home junior outfielder/first baseman Max Jung-Goldberg
  • An RBI single from Sim that plated sophomore infielder Will Worthington
  • Allen dashing home on an error by the Tritons' catcher
  • And a hard-hit RBI double from Ricketts that scored Sim.
• UC San Diego plated another run in the bottom of the second with a bases-loaded walk, but USD again had an immediate answer, erasing the Tritons' progress toward a comeback when Worthington scored on an error committed on a DeCriscio ground ball.
• An inning later, Ricketts turned on a fastball and hammered a line-drive home run over Triton Ballpark's right-field fence, plating Sim to move the score to 10-2 in favor of the Toreros.
• Two innings later, Sim added a home run of his own, crushing an opposite-field solo shot for his team and conference-leading 10th longball of 2022 to make it a 11-2 game.
• UC San Diego added two more runs of their own in the sixth with an RBI triple and a sacrifice fly, but again San Diego had the counterpunch, bringing in a pair via a Jack Costello (sophomore utility player) hit by pitch, and a bases-loaded walk from Jung-Goldberg to notch a 13-4 advantage that it would not relinquish.

A TEAM EFFORT ON THE MOUND

• Sophomore lefty Cole Colleran (Canyon Crest Academy) started the game on the mound for the Toreros, tossing an inning while allowing a pair of runs.
• He was relieved by sophomore righty Jack Hyde (Grossmont High School), who turned in the game's most dominant pitching performance with three scoreless frames, allowing just one hit and two walks against a trio of strikeouts, all of which came when he struck out the side in the third.
• True freshman right-hander Morgan Lunceford was next, working through two innings while surrendering two runs.
• True freshman lefty Gabe Maya threw a scoreless seventh in what marked the longest appearance of his college career thus far, striking out the side as he worked around a single.
• Junior right-hander Jake Reed set forth a scoreless eighth with one strikeout, and redshirt junior righty James Sashin closed the game out on the mound for San Diego, striking out a pair as he secured his team the 13-4 win.

TORERO TIDBITS

• Ricketts led the way for USD at the plate as he continued his tear, going 4-for-5 with four RBIs, a double, a home run, and a run scored.
• Sim wasn't too far behind with a 3-for-5 performance, notching a double, a home run, two walks, three RBIs, and a career-high five runs scored.
• DeCriscio was 1-for-4 with two RBIs, Costello was 1-for-4 with an RBI, Jung-Goldberg was 1-for-2 with a run scored, an RBI, a game-high three walks, and notched his first hit of the season, true freshman catcher Ariel Armas was 1-for-5 with a run scored, and true freshman infielder Thomas Rollauer notched his first career college hit, scored a run, and walked.

UP NEXT
The Toreros remain on the road this weekend, traveling to Portland as they resume West Coast Conference play. First pitch at Joe Etzel Field on Friday is set for 6 p.m.