UC San Diego powers past Hawaii baseball team
Michael Crossland, Alex Leopard and Gabe Camacho hit home runs to power UC San Diego to today’s 8-0 victory over Hawaii at Triton Ballpark in La Jolla, Calif. A crowd of 542 saw the Tritons win their fourth consecutive series — this time two games to one — in the final scheduled meeting between the teams in the foreseeable future. The Rainbow Warriors, who fell to 16-13 and 6-9 in the Big West, join the Mountain West on July 1.
UCSD is set to depart the Big West for the West Coast Conference in the summer of 2027. The Tritons are atop the Big West at 10-2. The Tritons scored four runs with two outs in the third inning.
Crossland hit a shot over the fence in left field for a 1-0 lead. Camacho then hit a drive that right fielder Ben Zeigler-Namoa appeared to lose against the afternoon sun. The ball fell five feet to Zeigler-Namoa’s right as Camacho sprinted to third with a triple.
JC Allen followed with an RBI double. Then Leopard crushed a two-run homer. Camacho’s two-run, 397-foot homer to right extended the Tritons’ lead to 6-0 in the fifth inning.
Trevor Rector, who was the “opener,” pitched a 1-2-3 first inning. Austin Bowker, the usual third-game starter for the Tritons, pitched a three-hitter over the next 5 2/3 innings to earn the victory. Nathan Huy and Quincey Brown got the final seven outs.