UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - The Gauchos will enter next week's Big West Championships as the top seed after completing a 3-game sweep of UC Riverside 5-3.
The Gauchos share the regular season Big West title with Cal Poly but UCSB owns the tiebreaker with a sweep of Cal Poly in early April.
UCSB erased an early 3-0 deficit with a 4-run fifth inning. Jonathan Mendez hit a solo home run and Nate Vargas belted a 2-run shot later in the inning to tie the game at 3. For Vargas it's his team-leading 10h home run on the season. Rowan Kelly singled in William Vasseur to cap off the big inning with UCSB leading 4-3.
Noah Karliner smashed his ninth home run on the season in the sixth inning to wrap up the scoring.
Former Dos Pueblos High School standout Kellan Montgomery bounced back from a second inning 3-run homer by the Highlanders Esteban Sepulveda. The Long Beach State transfer Montgomery pitched 5.2 innings allowing just those three runs while striking out 9 as he improves to 8-3.
After the DP graduate exited, another local hurler, San Marcos alum Chase Hoover took the ball and delivered 2.2 innings of scoreless ball with 3 strikeouts.
(Hoover lowered is ERA for the season to 2.98. Entenza Design).
He allowed his only two hits in the top of the 9th inning and was lifted for freshman Josh Jannicelli who shut the door striking out the only two batters he faced to nail down his third save.
UCSB goes 22-8 in Big West play and will enter the conference tournament with an overall record of 37-16.
The Gauchos first action will be on Thursday at 1 p.m. against the winner of the Wednesday game between #4 Hawai'i and #5 Cal State Fullerton.
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