#1 UCLA gets payback after pounding UCSB in front of sellout crowd
Mike Klan
UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – The Bruins wasted no time in getting their revenge.
Two batters into the game it was 2-0 after UCLA superstar Roch Cholowsky launched a 2-run towering home run to left off of Van Froling who did not survive the first inning.
The top-ranked Bruins sent 10 batters to the plate, scoring 5 first-inning runs as they spanked UCSB 15-3 in a game shortened to seven innings due to the run-rule.
Earlier in the month UCSB went to Los Angeles and stunned the #1 Bruins 4-0 ending their 27-game winning streak.
Phoenix Call finished off the scoring in the first with a 2-run, 2-out bases loaded double that ended Froling’s night as well.
San Marcos alum Chase Hoover restored some order by pitching 2.1 innings allowing just one run and the Gauchos trailed 6-0 after four innings.
But the Bruins erupted for 6 more runs in the fifth inning highlighted by a Payton Brennan home run and an RBI single by Cholowsky who drove in 3 runs in the game and scored 3 times as well.
Noah Karliner was the lone bright spot in the Gauchos lineup as he hit two home runs from the #9 spot, a solo home run in the fifth and a 2-run blast in the 7th inning.
(Despite Karliner’s 2nd home run of the game, the Gauchos were run-ruled by UCLA. Entenza Design).
UCSB is now 27-15 while UCLA improves to a sensational 40-4 on the season.