Box Score NORTHRIDGE, Calif. --- UC Irvine baseball will resumed their series opener at CSUN on Saturday after Friday afternoon's game went 11 innings tied at 7-7 before darkness engulfed the game. The Matadors finished things off quickly with a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 12th for the 8-7 CSUN win.

HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED
Starters Trenton Denholm and Blake Sodersten began their outings pretty well with a few strikeouts and scoreless frames, but CSUN found their bats in the bottom of the second.

The Matadors would load the bases with help from Denholm who issued three walks. CSUN got on the board with a single through the infield, and then a sacrifice fly made it a 2-0 lead with two outs. CSUN kept chipping away with a pair of infield singles and a big two-run hit by Kai Moody to complete the five-inning inning for CSUN to go up, 5-0.

LONG BALL NOISE
The Anteaters got on the board with some two-out magic of their own. In the fourth inning. Dillon Tatum turned around a ball out to left field for a two-run home run, his fifth of the season, to close the gap to 5-2.

The Matadors added a run in their half of the fourth to make it 6-2, and nearly busted the game wide open in the fifth off the bat of Moody again. He launched a ball down the left field line for what looked like a home run, but was called foul to negate the three-run blast and keep things within reach at 6-2, CSUN.

THE NINTH INNING
The Anteaters got a good start from a base hit by Adrian Damla against CSUN closer Blake Schriever. After a walk to Tatum, the bats awoke with RBI doubles from Justin Torres and Jake Cosgrove sprinkled around a wild pitch to close deficit to one. The top of the order, who had been silent all afternoon, turned the game around as Nathan Church tied things with an RBI double and scored the go-ahead run on the first pitch to Mike Peabody on his single to bring the 'Eaters all the way back and up, 7-6.

CSUN wouldn't go away quickly tying things up to against UCI's closer, Jacob King, from a single, sacrifice hit, passed ball, and infield single by pinch-hitter Robert Bullard. The Matadors loaded the bases from a hit by pitch and walk, but a flyout sent the game to extra innings.

SUSPENDED AFTER 11 INNINGS: UC IRVINE 7, CSUN 7
Both teams put up chances in each frame of extra innings; the 'Eaters stranded two runners each in their halves, and the Matadors leaving the game-winning run on second base in the 11th.

The coaches and umpires came together to suspend play and rule on the rest of the weekend.

UCI's Tanner Brooks and CSUN's Jackson Cunningham each threw two scoreless extra-inning frames, and were the last pitcher for each team on the mound when the game was suspended. Jacob Castro is slated to leadoff the 12th for UCI.

FINAL (12): CSUN 8, UC IRVINE 7
The 'Eaters got a pair of runners on in their first frame on Saturday, but could not get any across. The second hitter of the day for CSUN, Ryan Ball, would end things quickly with a home run to right field for the walk-off. The pitchers of record, Jackson Cunningham and Tanner Brooks, each finished as the pitchers Friday and starter Saturday's resumed game. Brooks, who won UCI's last game last Sunday vs. Hawai'i in relief, would take the loss in this one to go to 1-1 on the year.

Thoughts from Head Coach Ben Orloff
"The ninth inning was great in terms of us stringing at-bats together off a guy that's been a closer in this league for a long time. He's got a tough cutter that's beat us before. It was good to see after how that game had went, we were able to play until the game was over."

"Gordon and Andre were key. That game was 6-2 and it felt like 20-2. What those two guys specifically did to give us a chance to come back, they're the unsung heroes in this."

"What I'm going to tell the team: Win. I think we all know the situation that the game's going to be when it starts. We'll have to figure out the pitching situation, we obviously know who's not available, but everybody realizes we just need to score and get a zero and play a new game."

THE REST OF THE WEEKEND
With the absence of lights at Matador Field, the teams could play no further Friday evening as the game was tied 7-7 heading into the 12th inning.

The game will now pick up in the 12th with the 'Eaters batting at 12:00 p.m. When the game is completed, the teams will play Game Two of the series 40 minutes following its conclusion.

Games Three and Four will now move to Sunday for the time being with first pitch scheduled for 11:00 a.m. of Game Three, and Game Four to begin 40 minutes after the conclusion of Game Three.