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Senior Day Baseball
7
Winner UC Irvine UCI 36-16, 28-8 Big West
4
CSUB CSUB 20-19, 17-15 Big West
Winner
UC Irvine UCI
36-16, 28-8 Big West
7
Final
4
CSUB CSUB
20-19, 17-15 Big West
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UC Irvine UCI 1 0 4 0 0 0 1 1 0 7 11 1
CSUB CSUB 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 7 2

W: Van Loon, Peter (4-3) L: Angelo, Roman (2-2) S: King, Jacob (8)

Game Recap: Baseball |

`Runners Downed in Series Finale, 7-4

Bakersfield, Calif. – Tyler Jorgensen homered to give CSU Bakersfield an early 3-1 lead, but UC Irvine rallied to win the game and the series with a 7-4 victory Sunday in Bakersfield. The Roadrunners were celebrating Senior Day, and the final game at Hardt Field for ten CSUB Baseball student-athletes.   
 
In addition to Jorgensen, CSUB also honored pitchers Kevin Altamirano, Aaron Charles, Andrew Ciandro, Noah Cordova, Art Joven, Graham Kuck and Ethan Skuija, along with position players Eric Charles and Nick Grossman.
 
"These seniors were a part of our first recruiting classes at CSUB," said fifth-year head coach Jeremy Beard. "They bought into our vision for the program and worked incredibly hard on behalf of our program, university and community. I'm incredibly proud of all they've accomplished as students and athletes, and what they've meant to our program over the past few seasons."
 
Jorgensen made the most of his final game at Hardt Field, finishing 3-for-4 and smacking his fourth home run of the season.
 
The `Runners led into the third, when a base on balls, an error and a misplay in left led to four Anteater runs and a 5-3 lead.
 
UCI tacked on single runs in the seventh and the eighth to lead 7-3, before CSUB's Evan Berkey manufactured a run for the home team in the bottom of the eighth.   
 
The Roadrunners will play one final regular season series next weekend at Big West rival UC Santa Barbara. The four-game set begins Friday, May 28, at 5:00 p.m.
 
How it Happened – Game 1:
• The Anteaters scored a single run in the fifth on two hits and a hit batter. Thomas McCaffrey picked up the RBI on a single up the middle that eluded a diving Evan Berkey.
• Tyler Jorgensen answered with a three-run blast in the bottom half of the frame to give CSUB an early 3-1 lead. Evan Berkey and Eric Charles singled in the inning, while Jacen Roberson reached on a fielder's choice ahead of Jorgensen.
• Dillon Tatum hit his Big West leading 13th home run of the season as part of UCI's four-run fourth inning. Tatum's blast made it 5-3 and followed an RBI double from Justin Torres and a run-scoring single from Thomas McCaffrey.
• Connor McGuire added an RBI single in the seventh to stretch UCI's lead to 6-3.
• Adrian Damla and Justin Torres hit back-to-back doubles in the eighth to make it 7-3.
• Berkey doubled and scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the eighth inning to make it 7-4.
 
Notable:
• Jorgensen's home run was his fourth of the season and Bakersfield's 22nd as a team. The latter total puts the 2021 `Runners alone in fourth place on the programs single-season team home run list. The CSUB standard is 42 round trippers, established in 2010.
• Jorgensen had three hits in the game, giving him his 17th multi-hit outing of the season.
• Friday night starter Noah Cordova pitched 1.2 innings of relief and became the first `Runner to pitch as a starter and out of the bullpen in the same series this season.
• Jack Lee made three relief outings in the series, totaling 3.0 innings, without allowing a hit.
• Bakersfield's bullpen had another strong weekend in relief posting a 3.91 ERA over 23.0 innings pitched. In the past three series, CSUB relievers have allowed just 16 ER in 56.1 innings of work (2.51 ERA).
 
Quotable:
Head Coach Jeremy Beard
On a hard-fought series with UC Irvine…
"There's a reason why UC Irvine is nationally ranked, they're a quality ball club. Our guys competed hard this weekend, held their own and probably deserved a better fate, but we'll take this experience, learn from it and use it to be even better moving forward."
 
Senior Tyler Jorgensen
On the weekend series & his senior day reflections…
"This was a series that could have gone 3-1 either way. We competed hard and played great baseball all weekend and it just didn't go our way. (The reality of Senior Day) hasn't really hit me yet, I'm sure it will soon. I'm just so thankful for all of the opportunities I've had at CSUB and the friends I'll have for the rest of my life. I want to make the most of every minute we have left."
 
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