IRVINE, Calif. --- Seven Anteater pitchers served notice in Tuesday night's 6-1 win over Cal State Fullerton shutting down the Titans in Anteater Ballpark.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS
UC Irvine (17-10, 6-3) was coming off nearly 35 innings of baseball over the weekend against CSUN taxing much of the pitching staff. Tuesday night, they worked together the spread the wealth and get through a tough test in the Cal State Fullerton Titans (10-17, 5-4).

Michael Stanford earned his fifth midweek start and began the night properly with a scoreless inning stranding a pair of runners. He handed the ball over to Finnegan Wall making his collegiate debut. Wall also needed to strand a pair of runners which he did and completed a fantastic debut striking out three in two scoreless innings. David Vizcaino was next in line after he also made his debut over the weekend and also threw two innings allowing just one baserunner on an error.

The usual suspects closed out the final four innings which included perfect frames from Gordon Ingebritson and Troy Taylor, a single hit allowed by Tanner Brooks later erased on a double play, and the only blemish on the night as Jacob King allowed four straight hits with two outs to surrender the only run on the evening.

DUB-LE TROUBLE
The offense was present throughout bunch pairs of runs in three different innings while working 11 hits and seven walks. Dub Gleed was the beneficiary of all the offense on the night driving in four of UCI's six runs. He got things really going in the fifth as the inning started with UCI leading, 2-0. Justin Torres slapped a base hit the other way, and Gleed followed with a titanic blast to left field for his first career home run and a 4-0 Anteater lead.

The game stayed that way until Cal State Fullerton's run in the seventh, but Gleed answered back in the bottom of the eighth inning. As he came up with nobody out and the bases loaded, the Titans countered with their ninth and final pitcher of the night to which Gleed would be hacking on the first pitch he saw and scoot a hit over the third base bag for two more runs and putting the win away, 6-1.

FINAL SCORE: UC IRVINE 6, CAL STATE FULLERTON 1
With nearly all seven Anteater pitchers worthy of the decision, it was David Vizcaino awarded the victory for his first of the year in his second career appearance. His two innings were a career high along with his two strikeouts, and same with Wall getting his first career everything in innings and strikeouts.

Gleed's night produced a career-high with four RBIs that also saw him tie Nathan Church for the team lead. He added a three-hit night reaching four times in total, and was joined in three-hit efforts by Ben Fitzgerald while scoring two runs like his teammate Church. Other notables in the lineup were Blake Penso making his first career start as he laced a single in his first at-bat of the night for his first career hit.

UCI gets back in the win column for a second straight game and has now defeated Cal State Fullerton five consecutive times.

The Anteaters head out on the road in their next matchups at UC San Diego starting Friday at 6:30 p.m. for a three-game series.

Postgame Thoughts
Head Coach Ben Orloff - "We should be a good midweek team. It's about pitching depth which we have a lot of and we saw tonight, defense, and depth through the lineup. Tonight was awesome on the mound. We walked one guy, threw seven different pitchers, Finnegan Wall made his debut and was really good. Vizcaino threw for the second time and was really good, and then the four guys that have been there at the end of games were all good again. To throw seven guys on a Tuesday and issue one walk, that's unbelievable. All seven did a great job and that's very encouraging.

"Gleed has been good for us this whole time and we keep giving him more and more. He sure doesn't play like a freshman, and he had a big night tonight - opposite-field single, homer, double, hit by a pitch, made a really good play on a bouncing ball. He's confident and doesn't play like a freshman, and he's hitting fourth because he's been really good for us."

Dub Gleed - "I haven't really hit that many home runs, most of the ones I've hit were over the summer coming into this freshman year. That's when I really started to enhance my power"

"I was seeing everything well tonight, and my takes were a lot better than the previous time we played. I just really felt comfortable and was more looking to do damage today rather than just be passive."

"I just want to do whatever is necessary to help us win. On defense, I just want to help our pitchers out any way I could because those outs are huge. Getting outs at this level is harder than it looks so I just want to do everything I can to get them the outs they deserve for the good pitches they make."