SAN DIEGO — Seventh-inning home runs from both Jack Gurevitch and Rex Watson complemented a strong team effort on the mound for San Diego baseball on Sunday afternoon, earning the Toreros (6-21, 3-3 WCC) a 6-2 victory over Pepperdine (6-21, 2-4 WCC) at Fowler Park.

USD used seven pitchers to hold the Waves to just three hits in the series finale, but was still knotted 2-2 with Pepperdine as the game reached its late stages. Gurevitch broke the tie in the seventh by sending the second pitch he saw off the batter's eye in center field for a towering go-ahead solo homer, then Watson got in on the action after Isaiah Lane doubled by crushing a two-run homer over the right-field wall to make it 5-2 in his team's favor.

Gurevitch added an insurance run an inning later on an RBI single before freshmen Jack Giordano and Fernando Palencia teamed up to toss a scoreless ninth, building off of the two shutout frames that Hayden Cody had turned in before them.

AJ Anzai and Austin Smith helped the Toreros build an early lead, recording an RBI single and RBI double, respectively.

NOTABLE

• Smith's fifth-inning double extended his hit streak to 18 games. It's San Diego's longest since Hunter Mercado-Hood's 18-game streak in 2018. The longest hit streak in USD baseball history is 31 games, achieved by Josh Harris in 2000; research on historical Torero hit streaks prior to 2021 is ongoing.
• Gurevitch was 3-for-3 with three runs scored and two RBIs. He also walked twice.
• Porter Rovin took over for San Diego starting pitcher Cal Scolari in the top of the third inning and allowed a run across two hitless frames. He walked just one batter and struck out one.

UP NEXT
The Toreros are back in action on Tuesday night, when they travel north for a midweek non-conference matchup against No. 19 UC Irvine. First pitch at Anteater Ballpark is set for 6:00 p.m.