FRESNO, Calif. - Pacific Baseball's (4-7) comeback attempt fell short Tuesday evening against Fresno State (6-5). Three runs in the eighth inning were not quite enough as Pacific fell 5-4. 

Freshman Peyton Miller led the team with three hits and drove in a run for the Tigers. Junior Chase Graves added two hits in the effort and hit his first home run. Sophomore Jacob Weiss hit a double. 

Senior Marvcus Guarin started the game and pitched 3.0 innings of one-hit baseball while striking out two batters. Sophomore Owen McWilliam struck out two hitters and gave up two runs in 1.1 innings pitched. 

The two pitching staffs dominated the first three innings. Pacific had a runner on third in the first inning but could not bring the runner in. In the first three innings, each team had only one runner in scoring position. 

Graves put Pacific on the board in the fifth inning, hitting a home run to right field on a full count to make it a one-run game. The Bulldogs responded in the bottom of the inning on a Pacific error. The Bulldogs added two more on a home run to right field in the bottom of the seventh. 

Pacific rallied in the eighth, with two outs and two runners on, graduate Jeremy Lea hit a single to left field to bring in graduate Ben Nemivant. Miller brought in the second run of the inning, and the Weiss double brought in freshman Tony Otis. Miller was thrown out at the plate trying to score the tying run. 

Pacific got the go-ahead run to the plate in the top of the ninth inning, but a strikeout and groundout ended the team's chances. 

Pacific hosts CSUN this weekend in a three-game series.