CSUN baseball had all the action bare to get a win Saturday hosting Hawaii.
There were uppercuts in home runs from Branden Berry and Fred Smith. There was animation in scoring backward to tie the bold as it went into added innings.

Unfortunately for CSUN, Hawaii’s Kekai Rios delivered the abruptness knockout as his leadoff home run in the 10th inning accepted the aberration in CSUN’s 6-5 Big West Appointment loss.

Rios’ aboriginal bookish home run and Hawaii’s fourth of the division came off a 1-2 angle from CSUN afterpiece Conner O’Neil, who had pitched 2 2/3 innings of scoreless abatement above-mentioned to adverse Rios.

CSUN (23-14, 2-9) trailed 5-3 afore accepting a cede fly from Smith in the seventh and a individual from Elias Orona in the
eighth that denticulate Derek Molina.

“We connected to play and put burden on their aegis but just didn’t get the appropriate hits,” CSUN arch drillmaster Greg Moore said.

After Orona’s hit, CSUN’s bats were silenced if Hawaii’s Matt Valencia pitched two scoreless innings for the win. Albee Weiss did ability abject on a airing for the Matadors in the basal of the 10th, but Valencia recovered to get Jose Ruiz to arena into a game-ending bifold play.

CSUN aswell had absent opportunities with three baserunners befuddled out at third, including Dylan Alexander on Orona’s single. Moore, however, alternate to his affair that the hits did not appear if CSUN bare them.

“If we got the appropriate hit, it’s a altered day,” Moore said.

Kenny Rosenberg addled out seven and absolved three in 6 1/3 innings but gave up four runs, three earned. Nick Viola accustomed a hit to Jonathan Weeks afore getting replaced by O’Neil, who becoming the save in Friday’s 2-1 win in 1 2/3 innings.

“He threw 20 pitches bygone so for him that’s a ablaze pen,” Moore said. “He bounced aback today and I anticipation he was appealing acceptable at times. His fastball looked bigger than it had in about two weeks.”

O’Neil (4-3) accomplished with four strikeouts and three walks in 3 2/3 innings.

Leadoff hitter Yusuke Akitoshi accomplished 3 for 5 for the Matadors and Bumstead aswell had three hits, including a one-out individual in the eighth that started the attached rally.

Berry’s home run led off the basal of the fourth and continued his on-base band to 29 games. It gave the Matadors a 2-0 advance afore Hawaii (18-18, 7-4) responded in the fifth.

After Matt LoCoco walked, Jonathan Weeks hit singled and a throwing absurdity accustomed LoCoco to score. Jacob Sheldon-Collins afresh hit a cede fly to centermost that denticulate Weeks to tie the game

Smith’s aboriginal home run of the division gave CSUN aback the advance at 3-2 in the sixth.

The teams will accommodated afresh Sunday at 1 p.m. at Matador Field. Andrew Weston will get the alpha for CSUN, which is searching to win its aboriginal appointment alternation this season.


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