Davis, Calif. – San José State plated four runs in the ninth inning and three more in the 11th to earn its first series win of the season on Sunday afternoon.
The Spartans (6-13) trailed by as many as three early in its finale against UC Davis before ultimately earning the 14-11 victory. Senior Sean Prozell (1-1) earned the win for the visitors, shutting the door with two frames of scoreless ball in the 10th and 11th innings.
Junior relievers Ben Polack and Darren Jansen were also impressive out of the bullpen on Sunday. Polack struck out one and allowed just one run in three innings on the bump while Jansen worked 1.1 frames without surrendering a run.
Senior Andrew Jurado led the team at the plate with four RBI and one run scored. Sophomore Dalton Bowling and Charles McAdoo also recorded multi-RBI performances in the winning effort.
It was Bowling who got SJSU on the board in the second, using a sac fly to right to score Jack Colette after Colette tripled to lead off the inning.
Trailing 4-1 in the fifth, head coach Brad Sanfilippo's club exploded for its biggest inning of the season thus far. Senior Ruben Mercado got the rally started with a leadoff homer to left (his first of the season) and by the time it was finished, San José State plated six runs to take a 7-4 lead.
The team's second big inning of the afternoon came with the game tied at 7-7 in the top of the ninth.
Bowling lead off with a single back up the middle and would come around to score along with James Shimashita on a two-RBI base knock for Jurado. It was McAdoo who scored the club's next two runs, coming to plate as a pinch hitter and promptly delivering with a two-RBI single to left.
ball don't lie!
— San José State Baseball (@SanJoseStateBSB) May 2, 2021
after SJSU's go-ahead run is taken off the board on an overturned balk call, @andrewjurado23 clears the bases with this two-RBI single ?? pic.twitter.com/M3wQ2LkUPk
Prozell allowed a leadoff double in the bottom half of the 10th but stranded that runner on third with a called strike three for the final out of the frame.
That set the scene for San José State's three-run 11th inning, an inning that would seal the deal on the series victory. The first two runs of the frame came in to score on a single off the bat of Reece Hernandez and Hernandez himself would cross home plate on a Bowling sac fly to right.
The Spartans will look to continue their winning ways when they go for the season sweep of California on Tuesday afternoon in Berkeley. First pitch is set for 3:00 p.m. at Evans Diamond.