UC San Diego rallied from a 7-2 deficit with 10 runs in the third inning of the second game of their baseball doubleheader with Cal State San Bernardino to sweep the CCAA twinbill on a rainy day and night at Arrowhead Credit Union Park by scores of 10-5 and 12-11.
    The Tritons pounded out 23 hits and scored 22 runs as they improved to 14-3 overall and 3-0 in the CCAA while CSUSB dropped to 8-6 overall and 0-3 in the CCAA. The final game of the four-game series will take place at noon Sunday at the Tritons field in La Jolla, weather permitting.
    The Coyotes had 16 hits in the nightcap and 13 in the opener but had nothing to show for it when play ended more than eight hours after it started. Game two was delayed 51 minutes by rain in the third inning. The seven-inning contest took 3:58 while the nine-inning game one lasted just 3:18.
    CSUSB took a 7-2 lead into the third inning of game two but UCSD rocked starter Kevin Wilson and reliever Eric Meyerholtz for 10 runs on six hits and one error to take a 12-7 lead. The Coyotes made it 12-10 in the bottom of the inning, then scored a run in the fifth as Andrew Tapia tripled and scored on Michael Minjares' single. Minjares stole second and took third on a groundout but Johnnie Haas grounded to short to leave the tying run stranded at third.
    In game one, UCSD lashed out 14 hits, driving CSUSB starter Cheyne Hann from the mound after 2.2 innings after scoring five runs in the second and five more in the third. UCSD starter Guido Nelson fared little better, chased after 3.1 innings as CSUSB scored five times.
    The Coyotes had 13 hits in the opener -- six of them by Danny Soles and Chris LeFay -- but stranded 11 runners.
    Michael Leal, in relief of Hann, pitched 6.1 innings of five-hit, shutout ball. Kirby St. John and Tim Shibuya of UCSD blanked the Coyotes over the final 5.2 innings, yielding just six hits and combining for nine strikeouts, eight by St. John.
    Keith Noe pitched 4.2 innings of solid relief for the Tritons in the nightcap, giving just one run while David McCarthy, the Coyotes' third reliever, pitched four innings of two-hit, shutout ball and striking out three.
    Minjares was four-for-five in the game with an RBI while Jason Klug had a pair of hits, including a double and three RBI, raising his season total to 25. Brent Planck and Chris Olsen also had two hits in the game. Freshman catcher Chris LeFay went three-for-five in the first game for CSUSB.