UCLA forces deciding game with 11-7 win in 10 innings

UCLA stays alive with 11-7 win in 10 innings

LOS ANGELES — Cal State Fullerton was one out from Omaha on Saturday.

Now the Titans are a game away as UCLA came back to score two runs in the ninth and four more in the 10th for an 11-7 win to even up the Los Angeles Super Regional at one game.

The teams will play the deciding game Sunday night at UCLA’s Jackie Robinson.

In the top of the ninth, UCLA’s Tyler Rahmatulla hit a long two-out, two-run home run for a 7-6 lead the Bruins could not hold on to.

But taking advantage of their seventh and eighth walks and a dropped fly ball in the 10th, UCLA stayed alive in the postseason. The key hit was a two-RBI single by pinch-hitter Trevor Brown that put UCLA ahead 9-7.

UCLA’s Cody Regis hit two homers and Justin Uribe added one.

The win allows the Pac-10-titlist Bruins (47-14) to erase some of the edge the Big West champion Titans (46-17) held in this series as they tried for their eighth College World Series trip in the 12 years of Super Regional play since 1999.

UCLA, which has made it to Omaha only twice in its history, trails CSUF 60-25-1 in the series and is 3-7 in NCAA tournament play against the Titans.

CSUF catcher Billy Marcoe had three hits and Richie Pedroza and Billy Siddons each added two hits.