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Payton Brennan
UCLA Offense Erupts in Victory Over Cal Poly, 18-2
February 15, 2025 | Baseball
LOS ANGELES – The UCLA baseball team exploded for 18 hits in a dominant series-clinching victory, defeating Cal Poly 18-2 on Saturday afternoon at Jackie Robinson Stadium.
Eight of the nine UCLA (2-0) starters recorded a hit in the game, with four multi hit performances bolstering the effort.
Payton Brennan finished a single shy of the cycle in his 3-for-4 day, smacking a home run and a bases-clearing double for a career-high four RBIs. Roman Martin also had a standout performance with three hits and four RBIs.
Mulivai Levu blasted UCLA's first home run of the year in his 2-for-5 day and Roch Cholowsky recorded four runs scored in his two-hit display.
Ian May earned the win in his first start for UCLA, surrendering just one earned run over 5.0 innings pitched. The transfer from Cal racked up three strikeouts and allowed just three hits.
Cal Poly capitalized on a leadoff base hit to open the scoring in the top of the first, but UCLA immediately answered by batting around the order in its first trip to the plate. Dean West ripped a leadoff double in the gap before RBI knocks from Cholowsky, Martin, Salgado, and Blake Balsz gave the Bruins a commanding 4-1 lead after the first frame.
West reached base three times, drawing two walks and scoring twice in his 1-for-3 performance. UCLA's leadoff hitter has reached base six times in the last two games.
Levu's RBI double in the bottom half of the second sparked yet another four-run inning for UCLA and forced Cal Poly's starting pitcher, Josh Volmerding, out of the game. Two hit-by-pitches and three walks fueled the rally after Levu's run-scoring double.
The visitors got a run back in the third after a solo shot from Zach Daudet, but the Bruins replied with a solo homer of its own when Levu launched a moonshot over the right field wall. This was UCLA's first home run of the 2025 season.
May settled down for two scoreless innings in the fourth and the fifth frames and Cal Poly would be shutout for the remainder of the contest. He handed the ball to Luke Rodriguez to start the sixth and the righty racked up three punch outs in two spotless innings.
Brennan hit a solo home run in the fifth to bring the Bruins' run total to double digits. In the sixth, UCLA broke the game open when Martin doubled to score a pair before Brennan cleared the bases with a double of his own.
In the UCLA seventh, Logan de Groot recorded his first collegiate hit in his first-ever at-bat. The freshman added another in the eighth to compile two hits on the day. CJ Bott toed the rubber for the first time in his career, fanning two hitters in his scoreless inning of work, and Josh Alger made his first-ever appearance, shutting things down for a hitless ninth.
Kasen Khansarinia and Grant Gray also made their collegiate debuts on Saturday afternoon.
The Bruins will take on Cal Poly in the series finale tomorrow at 1 p.m. PT. Landon Stump gets the nod for UCLA. The game will be available for viewing on B1G+.
Eight of the nine UCLA (2-0) starters recorded a hit in the game, with four multi hit performances bolstering the effort.
Payton Brennan finished a single shy of the cycle in his 3-for-4 day, smacking a home run and a bases-clearing double for a career-high four RBIs. Roman Martin also had a standout performance with three hits and four RBIs.
Mulivai Levu blasted UCLA's first home run of the year in his 2-for-5 day and Roch Cholowsky recorded four runs scored in his two-hit display.
Ian May earned the win in his first start for UCLA, surrendering just one earned run over 5.0 innings pitched. The transfer from Cal racked up three strikeouts and allowed just three hits.
Cal Poly capitalized on a leadoff base hit to open the scoring in the top of the first, but UCLA immediately answered by batting around the order in its first trip to the plate. Dean West ripped a leadoff double in the gap before RBI knocks from Cholowsky, Martin, Salgado, and Blake Balsz gave the Bruins a commanding 4-1 lead after the first frame.
West reached base three times, drawing two walks and scoring twice in his 1-for-3 performance. UCLA's leadoff hitter has reached base six times in the last two games.
Levu's RBI double in the bottom half of the second sparked yet another four-run inning for UCLA and forced Cal Poly's starting pitcher, Josh Volmerding, out of the game. Two hit-by-pitches and three walks fueled the rally after Levu's run-scoring double.
The visitors got a run back in the third after a solo shot from Zach Daudet, but the Bruins replied with a solo homer of its own when Levu launched a moonshot over the right field wall. This was UCLA's first home run of the 2025 season.
May settled down for two scoreless innings in the fourth and the fifth frames and Cal Poly would be shutout for the remainder of the contest. He handed the ball to Luke Rodriguez to start the sixth and the righty racked up three punch outs in two spotless innings.
Brennan hit a solo home run in the fifth to bring the Bruins' run total to double digits. In the sixth, UCLA broke the game open when Martin doubled to score a pair before Brennan cleared the bases with a double of his own.
In the UCLA seventh, Logan de Groot recorded his first collegiate hit in his first-ever at-bat. The freshman added another in the eighth to compile two hits on the day. CJ Bott toed the rubber for the first time in his career, fanning two hitters in his scoreless inning of work, and Josh Alger made his first-ever appearance, shutting things down for a hitless ninth.
Kasen Khansarinia and Grant Gray also made their collegiate debuts on Saturday afternoon.
The Bruins will take on Cal Poly in the series finale tomorrow at 1 p.m. PT. Landon Stump gets the nod for UCLA. The game will be available for viewing on B1G+.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: May, Ian (1-0)
L: Volmerding, Josh (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Garza, Alejandro 1 ; Higuchi, Mack 1
HR: Daudet, Zach 1
RBI: Thomas, Braxton 1 ; Daudet, Zach 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Fenn, Ryan 1 ; Daudet, Zach 1
Batting:
2B: West, Dean 1 ; Levu, Mulivai 1 ; Martin, Roman 1 ; Brennan, Payton 1
3B: Brennan, Payton 1
HR: Levu, Mulivai 1 ; Brennan, Payton 1
RBI: West, Dean 1 ; Cholowsky, Roch 1 ; Levu, Mulivai 2 ; Khansarinia, Kasen 1 ; Martin, Roman 4 ; Salgado, AJ 1 ; Brennan, Payton 4 ; Bythewood, Toussaint 1 ; Call, Phoenix 1 ; Balsz, Blake 2
Base Running:
RUNS: West, Dean 2 ; Hocking, Jarrod 1 ; Cholowsky, Roch 4 ; Levu, Mulivai 3 ; Martin, Roman 2 ; Salgado, AJ 2 ; Brennan, Payton 2 ; Kim, Cameron 1 ; de Groot, Logan 1
SB: Salgado, AJ 1
HBP: Cholowsky, Roch 1 ; Martin, Roman 1 ; Salgado, AJ 1 ; Balsz, Blake 2
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