Box Score SACRAMENTO -- Junior Josh Rolling tied his career high with three hits while Wehiwa Aloy and Gunner Gouldsmith added two hits apiece, but it wasn't enough as the Sacramento State baseball team closed out play at the Southern California College Baseball Classic with a 14-6 loss to Tulane at UCLA's Jackie Robinson Stadium on Sunday morning.
The Hornets finished the weekend with a 6-4 overall record, dropping all three games of the tournament, while the Green Wave, who scored a run in eight of the nine innings on the day, snapped a four-game skid with the win, improving to 2-10 on the season.
Rolling ended the day 3-for-4 with a run scored, finishing the weekend 7-for-11 (.636) at the plate with a pair of doubles and his second home run of the season and extending his hitting streak to five games in the process. He has three straight games with two or more hits, posting his fifth multi-hit game of the year to match Aloy for the team lead.
Speaking of Aloy, the freshman extended his hitting streak to 10 straight games to start the year, finishing 2-for-5 with a run and RBI, including a steal of home on a double steal attempt.
Gouldsmith, who missed the first six games of the year due to injury, has hits in each of his first four games to start the year, ending Sunday 2-for-3 at the plate with an RBI. He his 5-for-8 (.625) with three RBI at the plate to start the season.
Sacramento State dug out of an early 4-0 hole with a big three-run rally in the third, putting a pair on with a walk to Braden Frank and a single by Rolling. After a fly out Aloy reached on an infield single and Gouldsmith followed by an infield hit of his own to cut the deficit in half. With runners at the corners, Gouldsmith and Aloy executed the double steal, with Aloy sliding across home plate to make it a one-run game.
Tulane added another in the top of the fourth, but the Hornets kept coming. Martin Vincelli-Simard slugged his second home run of the season — and the 20th of her career — over the right field wall to get one of the runs back and, after a walk to Frank and a double by Rolling put two in scoring position, Jorge Bojorquez lofted a fly ball to right, deep enough to score Frank and tie the game.
From that point on, however, it was all Green Wave. as a squeeze by Gavin Schulz broke the tie and a two-run home run by Simon Baumgardt gave Tulane some breathing room as it pulled away.
Sacramento State tacked one more win the sixth on an RBI ground out by Bojorquez, but that was it for the Hornet offense.
After flying home, Sacramento State remains on the road and makes the short jaunt across the Causeway to take on UC Davis on Tuesday (March 7) at 2 p.m. The Hornets then return home on Thursday (March 9) to open a four-game series against Central Michigan at John Smith Field.
Previously added games against the Aggies on Monday (March 6) and San Francisco on Wednesday (March 8) have fallen off and will be rescheduled for later in the year.