Baseball | 2/14/2016 6:01:00 PM

Box Score LA JOLLA (Feb. 14, 2016) -- The Coyotes wasted little time Sunday morning against Texas-Permian Basin, scoring eight runs in the opening frame and earning a 8-6 victory in nonconference play at UC San Diego.

CSUSB, now 4-7 overall, play four games in three days in Lancaster, beginning Wednesday afternoon against the University of British Columbia.

The Coyotes sent 14 batters to the plate and came through with seven hits.

Damion Edmonds, Grant Buchanan, Brian Lockey all reached base on singles, with Lockey earning a two-run shot up the middle for a 2-0 lead.

After Austin Lundeen and Daniel Romo reached on walks, Ryan Rich singled up the middle to score Lundeen. William Ouellette followed with a two-run single down the left-field line and CSUSB led 5-0.

Jordan Simon added a fielder's choice that scored Rich, and Edmonds earned an RBI with a single to center and the Coyotes padded the lead to 7-0. They stretched the lead to 8-0 when Simon scored on Lundeen's single to short.

That eight-run lead held up as UTPB pecked away with two runs in the thid, one in the fourth and seventh and two in the ninth.

Noah Simon earned the start and went 3 2/3 innings with a strikeout and allowed six hits with three runs (two earned).

Joshua Murtha (2-1) earned the win with 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief. He allowed two hits.

Buchanan led with three hits and Edmonds had two. All nine CSUSB hits were singles.