Rally works magic

Stanford baseball races back to beat Fullerton 7-6 in 11

Stanford found itself behind 6-0 to Fullerton after four innings Sunday before rallying for a 7-6 victory in 11 innings.

The Cardinal was down 6-4 with two outs in the ninth, but Quinn Brodey delivered an opposite-field double to left to score two runs and tie the game.

Stanford’s Duke Kinamon led off the 11th with a single and, two batters later, Matt Winaker lined a shot into the left-field corner to score the winner.

Sophomore Colton Hock (1-0) pitched three perfect innings to earn the win.

Alex Dunlap also knocked in two runs for the Cardinal.

Junior Matt Ladrech n scattered eight hits over 71⁄3 innings and Jeffrey Mitchell Jr. homered and knocked in four runs Sunday as Cal defeated Cal Poly 8-1 at Evans Diamond in Berkeley.

Ladrech walked just one batter and struck out one in picking up the victory. He fell behind 1-0 in the second, but the Bears (2-1) scored twice in the third on Mitchell’s twoout single off Jared Zill to go ahead for good. Junior Zayne Patino worked a perfect 12⁄3 innings of relief to shut the door, striking out three, including the first two Mustangs batters he faced.

Ripken Reyes added to the Bears’ lead with an RBI single in the fifth, and one batter later, Mitchell slammed a two-run, opposite-field blast, the first of his college career, over the right field fence to make it 5-1.

San Jose State rallied n with runs in the seventh and eighth innings to tie the game at 2-2, but UCLA scored in the bottom of the ninth against Jaiden France to emerge victorious at Jackie Robinson Stadium in Los Angeles.

Spartans starter Josh Nashed went 5 innings and allowed two runs on six hits with five strikeouts and no walks.

Golf

Junior Shannon Aubert shot a 1-under par 71, but top-ranked Stanford found itself in seventh place after the opening round of the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate at English Turn Golf & Country Clu in New Orleans.

The Cardinal finished with a team score of 5over 293 on the 6,239yard layout. Miami leads the 17-team tournament after a 1-under 287.

Aubert posted four birdies and one bogey. Despite a closing bogey at the par-4 18th hole, she scored a 1-under 35 on the back nine and is tied for ninth.

Senior Casey Danielson also had four birdies to finish at 72 and is tied for 14th. She got hot on the back side with birdies at 10, 11 and 13.

Freshman Albane Valenzuela shot 74 and is tied for 32nd. Andrea Lee, a three-time winner this season and ranked No. 1 in the country by Golfweek, struggled with a 76 and is tied while Ziyi Wang for 44th.

Tennis

Cal’s J.T. Nishimura clinched a 4-3 victory over UCLA in the consolation match oft the ITA National Men’s Team Indoor Championship in Charlottesville, Virgina. Nishimura, a junior, defeated Austin Rapp, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 as the fourthranked Bears improved to 5-1. The seventh-ranked Bruins stand at 7-3.