No. 13 UC Irvine Storms Back for Senior Day Win, 14-9
May 25, 2024 | Baseball
- The visitors got off to a hot start with two runs in the first and a 6-1 lead in the fourth inning
- The 'Eaters sent 13 batters to the plate in their bottom of the fourth to score seven and turn the game around and lead, 8-6
- The big blow was a Myles Smith single the other way to score two and cut it to a 6-5 ballgame
- Dub Gleed bounced a ball through the unoccupied right side of the infield to give UCI the 7-6 lead
- CSUN got within a run, 8-7, in the fifth inning before UCI added three runs to stretch the advantage to 11-7
- Gleed again found the right side wide open to put the lead back at 9-7
- Consecutive hit by pitch with the bases loaded including Woody Hadeen's second of the afternoon helped stretch it to a four-run game
- A two-run CSUN home run in the seventh closed the gap once again to 11-9
- Ricky Tibbett came on in the eighth looking to earn his 10th save and got inning-ending double plays in the eighth and ninth by Woody Hadeen and Will Bermudez to sew up the win, 14-9
- The offense again mashed 15 hits along with 14 runs
- Gleed had a monster day leading all Anteaters with four hits and three RBIs
- Hadeen had three runs and two walks to push his record-setting season totals to 76 runs scored and 58 walks
- On Senior Day, 13 graduates were honored - Woody Hadeen, Caden Kendle, Ricky Tibbett, Cameron Wheeler, David Vizcaino, Will Bermudez, Abraham Garcia-Pacheco, Thomas McCaffrey, Nick Pinto, Luke Spillane, Jo Oyama, Jacob Stinson, and Nick Rincover along with student manager Zeke Bellino.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Kelly, Riley (3-0)
L: Wentz, Ryan (0-3)
S: Tibbett, Ricky (10)
Batting:
2B: Sanderson, Jarren 1
HR: Sanderson, Jarren 1 ; Fitzer, Kevin 1
RBI: Sanderson, Jarren 4 ; Sojka, Andrew 1 ; Fitzer, Kevin 2 ; Le, Mason 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Neighbors, Kamau 1 ; Sakaino, Shunsuke 1 ; Simons, Jakob 3 ; Sanderson, Jarren 1 ; Barraza, Nathan 2 ; Fitzer, Kevin 1
SB: Sakaino, Shunsuke 1 ; Simons, Jakob 1 ; Sojka, Andrew 1
CS: Sanderson, Jarren 1
HBP: Simons, Jakob 1

Batting:
2B: Kendle, Caden 1 ; Gleed, Dub 1 ; Bermudez, Will 1 ; Call, Chase 1
RBI: Hadeen, Woody 2 ; Smith, Myles 2 ; Kendle, Caden 2 ; Martinez, Anthony 2 ; Gleed, Dub 3 ; McCaffrey, Thomas 1 ; Call, Chase 1 ; Oyama, Jo 1
SH: Oyama, Jo 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Hadeen, Woody 3 ; Kendle, Caden 2 ; Martinez, Anthony 1 ; Gleed, Dub 1 ; Bermudez, Will 2 ; McCaffrey, Thomas 2 ; Call, Chase 2 ; Oyama, Jo 1
HBP: Hadeen, Woody 2 ; Bermudez, Will 1 ; Call, Chase 1 ; Oyama, Jo 2




















