Cannon Rounding Third
Carlos Puma
4
UC Santa Barbara UCSB 31-6, 8-2 Big West
9
Winner UC Riverside UCR 14-25, 4-6 Big West
UC Santa Barbara UCSB
31-6, 8-2 Big West
4
Final
9
UC Riverside UCR
14-25, 4-6 Big West
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
UC Santa Barbara UCSB 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 0
UC Riverside UCR 3 0 4 0 1 0 0 1 X 9 10 1

W: Petrovick, Hayden (4-1) L: Brecht, Ben (7-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Beats Top-10 Ranked UCSB

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The UC Riverside Baseball team snapped top-10 ranked UC Santa Barbara's 13-game winning streak, as they beat the Gauchos 9-4. The Highlanders were powered by another huge game from junior Connor Cannon who set a couple records on the night.
 
The Highlanders had a great combination of timely hitting, spectacular defense and scoreless relief to pull off the upset in game one of the series. The win at The Plex gives the team a 7-6 home record and a 3-1 home record in conference play.
 
UCSB's Ben Brecht was undefeated at 7-0 before the night but Riverside touched him up to give him his first loss of the year. But it didn't start off pretty for the Highlanders.
 
The first inning almost turned into a disaster as the Highlanders had two wild pitches, walked four batters and allowed two steals in the inning. They escaped only allowing two runs.
 
That's when Cannon and the offense started doing their thing. Junior Travis Bohall started it off with a one-out single and he was followed up by senior Dean Miller who hit a rocket up the middle. Senior Yeager Taylor grounded into a fielder's choice resulting in a run.
 
Cannon stepped into the box and did what he does best as he sent a deep shot over the right center field wall. That home run gave Riverside a 3-2 lead and made him UCR's all-time home run leader with 31. But he wasn't done breaking records yet.
 
The Gauchos answered with two runs of their own in the top of the second inning but those proved to be the last of their runs.
 
In the bottom half of the third inning, Miller hit another screamer but this time into the left-center gap for an RBI double to tie it up. Taylor gave the team the lead with a single then handed the baton off to their big gun. Cannon smoked another home run to almost the same identical spot as his first home run into the trees in right center.
 
His second home run of the night and his third multi-homer game within the past two weeks gave the Highlanders a 7-4 lead. Cannon set the UCR Division I school-record for most home runs in a season with 14 after he hit that shot.
 
From there, the defense and pitching staff took over to hold onto the lead. Junior Hayden Petrovick earned his fourth win of the season as he pitched three scoreless innings. In Petrovick's last 5 outings he has gone 3-0 and hasn't allowed a single run.
 
Freshman Alec Arnone looked like Brooks Robinson at third base tonight as he made two spectacular backhanded plays down the line to get runners in the fourth and eighth innings.
 
Sophomore Jeremiah Priddy tossed two scoreless innings striking out two. Priddy has been effective in his last two appearances going four innings without allowing a run.
 
The last three outs were recorded by freshman Andre Granillo as he got a foul out and struck out the final two batters of the game. Granillo has also pitched well of late as his last four appearances have spanned over six innings without allowing a run while striking out 10 batters.
 
The Highlander's 2-5 hitters all had two hits apiece and counted for eight out of the team's nine runs batted in.
 
The two teams square off tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. for game two of the three-game set.