SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sacramento State rode a pair of big innings to a 9-1 win over the Pacific baseball team in a mid-week match-up in Sacramento Tuesday. Kevin Sandri went 2-for-5 with a run scored while Ryan Schalch drove in the Tigers' run.

The Tigers jumped out to an early 1-0 lead as Schalch drove in Sandri in the top of the first, but the Hornets answered back with three runs in the third, and blew the game open with a six-run fourth inning aided by three defensive miscues by the Tigers in the inning.

Pacific picked up five of the teams six hits off Hornets starter Austin Roberts.

Sandri opened the game with a single to center and after a walk by Matt Tarantino, Schalch delivered an RBI single through the left side.

After a 1-2-3 bottom of the first on the mound, Schalch surrendered a leadoff home run by James Outman in the second before the Hornets tacked on two more on a pair of doubles.

Ed O'Bannon III tossed a scoreless third inning for Pacific.

In the fourth, the Tigers loaded the bases on a single by Lucas Halstead and walks from Omar Ortiz and Preston Moebius, but Roberts stranded the bases loaded.

Sacramento State plated six runs in the fourth, but only three earned off Jordon Gonzalez. An RBI double from D Bacho plated the first run, with an error on a sacrifice bunt and a single to center stretching the Hornets lead to 6-1. The Hornets scored twice more on a single by V Esposito and a pair of throwing errors before Gonzalez finally stranded a pair of runners on to end the frame.

Bailey Hansen, Justin Giovannoni, Cooper Casad and Miles Haddad held Sacramento State in check the rest of the way, each throwing one inning of no-hit ball. But the Tigers picked up one hit the rest of the way as Austin Root, Chad Perry, Tanner Olson and Ty Fox each tossed scoreless innings for the Hornets.

Schalch took the loss in his first start of the year, while Roberts earned the win to improve to 1-0.

Pacific dips to 11-12 on the season, while the Hornets move to 12-11.

The Tigers will travel to Los Angeles for a three-game West Coast Conference series against Loyola Marymount starting Friday at 6 p.m.