SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Fifteen runs was not enough for Pacific baseball (14-32) as Sacramento State (27-26) scored nine runs in the bottom of the eighth to take the 18-15 win. 

Freshman Tony Otis led the team with three hits and scored three runs while driving in two. Junior Chase Graves drove in three runs with a home run. Junior Jacob Weiss, sophomore Andrew Guidara and freshman Kaden Petersen all drove in two runs. Guidara and Peterson both homered. 

Nine different Tigers took the mound; freshman Caden Casagrande got started and pitched 4.0 innings of scoreless baseball with one strikeout. Sophomore Caden Duke pitched 1.1 innings with a team-leading two strikeouts.

Weiss started the scoring in the first inning, scoring two runs on an RBI single to left field. Casagrande worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the second inning to keep the Hornets off the board. 

Sacramento State got its first run across in the fourth inning before Pacific started to pour it on in the fifth. Junior Chaz Myers started the scoring, grounding out with two runners on to bring in a run. After a fielding error brought in a second run, Weiss singled to shortstop, and graduate Jeremy Lea scored on the ensuing throwing error. Graves followed it up with a three-run home run to left field to give Pacific an 8-1 lead. 

Three runs in the fifth and five in the seventh gave Sacramento State its first lead. Otis singled in the eighth inning to tie the game before a sacrifice fly from graduate Ben Nemivant re-took the lead for Pacific. 

However, the Hornets did not quit, scoring nine runs in the eighth to take an 18-10 lead heading into the final three outs for Pacific. Guidara hit a pinch-hit, two-run home run to keep Pacific in the game. Petersen hit a two-run home run of his own just four batters later, but it was not enough for the Tigers, as the Hornets took the 18-15 win. 

Pacific wraps up the regular season this weekend at WCC leader Loyola Marymount.