Late game heroics help UCLA softball to defeat the Titans

The No. 10 UCLA softball team's late game heroics helped the Bruins pull out an exciting 13-11 win against Cal State Fullerton at Anderson Family Field in Fullerton, Calif. on Tuesday.

The Bruins had wrapped up their Big Ten series sweep against Indiana over the weekend , but the Titans gave their ranked opponent no chance to rest. UCLA's pitching staff was under constant fire over the course of the game with the four pitchers totaling for 13 hits, two balls and 13 runs, while getting only three strikeouts. Explosive start The Titans walked four Bruins batters in the first and UCLA punished them for it.

Fresh off of a 2026 NCAA Women's Basketball National Championship win , senior utility Megan Grant knocked out a two-run homer in her first at bat. Redshirt junior center fielder Alexis Ramirez had her turn and hit a grand slam to put UCLA up six runs to end the top of the first. No defense Despite the exquisite start set up by UCLA's batters, the Bruin pitching staff struggled to limit their mistakes in the bottom of the first.

Cal State Fullerton would tie the game up with six runs that were set up by five hits, two walks and two hits by a pitch. The bats are alive After both teams scored another run in the second, UCLA would recapture the lead with a two-run homer in the top of the third by Jolyna Lamar. Cal State Fullerton wouldn't let the Bruins lead last long with four runs coming off three hits and two errors in the bottom of the third putting them up 11-9.