Portland, OR—The UC Riverside Baseball Team was unable to complete its scheduled double header at Portland today as rain suspended game two of the twin bill. The Pilots picked up an 8-5 victory in game one, and led 4-1 in the bottom of the fifth in the nightcap before the umpires called for the tarp.

The teams will pick up the suspended game Sunday at noon before concluding their four game series, weather permitting.

For the second straight game, UC Riverside (4-6) founded itself trailing in the early going before getting their bats on track in the later innings, and for the second straight game, that rally came up short.

The Pilots (7-3) scored single runs in the first three frames, forcing Highlanders' starter Angel Landazuri (1-2) to throw 110 pitches in just five innings of work. The junior struck out nine on the day, but gave up seven hits and four walks. Reliever Jared Morton pitched the sixth and the seventh, allowing three hits and walking a trio of Piilots, which Portland converted into three more runs, and a 6-2 lead through seven.

UC Riverside, who scored single runs in the first and seventh innings, plated three in its half of the eighth when Thomas Walker blasted a three-run shot over the left field wall scoring Aaron Cisneros and Drake Zarate. That made it a 6-5 game, but the Pilots bounced back with a pair of runs off of Matthew Ellis in the bottom of the eighth to go back up by three.

Billy Sahlinger pitched a scoreless ninth for his fourth save of the season. Davis Tominaga (2-1) was credited with the win, going seven innings and scattering six hits.

In the second game, Portland pitcher Jordan Horak struck out eight in five innings while allowing just one hit and one unearned run. His offense staked him to a 4-1 lead, with Caleb Whalen driving in three of the four runs.