IRVINE, Calif. --- The Anteaters could not quite finish off the series sweep of Grand Canyon Sunday afternoon falling, 4-3, at Anteater Ballpark.

LOPES JACK
Grand Canyon (3-4) jumped on the Anteaters (4-3) much like Friday night. This time, they used the long ball from a two-out solo home run off the bat of Jacob Wilson for a 1-0 lead in the first.

NECK AND NECK
GCU built a 2-0 lead from a sacrifice fly before the Anteater bats woke up with an eruption. Ben Fitzgerald cracked UCI's first hit in the fourth inning with a triple down into the right field corner. The very next batter Justin Torres tripled him home popping a drive off the top of the center field wall. He would score on a sacrifice fly for a 2-2 game in the fourth.

The Lopes would regain their lead with more action on the basepaths finished off by Maxwell Andeel singling past the dive of Connor McGuire to go up, 3-2, in the sixth.

UCI's answer this time was a titanic tank from Fitzgerald clubbing a home run out to right field and over the trees behind the fence knotting things back up at 3-3.

FALLING SHORT
The Lopes took the lead again in the seventh inning getting the leadoff hitter again into scoring position with a stolen base, and Jacob Wilson again made the difference singling home the run for a 4-3 lead.

UCI searched for another response putting multiple runners on base in the seventh and ninth, but were unable to get anyone across the plate.

FINAL SCORE: GRAND CANYON 4, UC IRVINE 3
The loss halts UCI's brief three-game win streak. Cameron Wheeler drew the loss now 1-1 on the week. Danny Suarez went a season-high five innings allowing a pair of runs while Gordon Ingebritson was immaculate retiring all eight hitters he faced on 20 pitches finishing a weekend where he retired all 19 hitters on just 54 pitches.

Fitzgerald had two of th team's four hits both going for extra bases while taking the team lead in home runs and triples.

Sunday's game was the first for UCI where both teams did not hold the lead at any point.

The 'Eaters now head out on the 

Thoughts from Head Coach Ben Orloff
"All three of these games were well-pitched, close, low-scoring games. We struggled all weekend to get stuff going offensively. Those guys threw the ball really well, especially out of the bullpen."

"Danny did well. He got two quick outs in the first inning and would have liked to not fall behind on Wilson, he's a good player. And Gordon had as good a weekend as I can remember a relief pitcher had on a weekend series. 19 up, 19 down, on 54 pitches."

"It's always good to win the series, and I think Grand Canyon are a really good team; a regional team last year that won 39 games, and I'm certain they will be in the mix again."