{"id":287411,"date":"2026-04-26T23:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287411\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:56:10","slug":"no-1-ucla-falls-to-sacramento-state-9-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287411\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 UCLA Falls to Sacramento State, 9-6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 The No.\u00a01-ranked UCLA baseball team fell to Sacramento State, 9-6, in Sunday&#8217;s series finale at Jackie Robinson Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDespite a two-homer performance from <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/roch-cholowsky\/15523\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15523\" target=\"_blank\">Roch Cholowsky<\/a>, the Bruins (39-4) surrendered a season-high nine runs and were unable to climb out of a six-run deficit by the sixth inning. Cholowsky&#8217;s pair of blasts, his 16th and 17th of the season, highlighted a strong day at the plate, marking his fourth multi-homer game of the year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/dean-west\/15543\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15543\" target=\"_blank\">Dean West<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/roman-martin\/15535\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15535\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Martin<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/kasen-khansarinia\/15530\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15530\" target=\"_blank\">Kasen Khansarinia<\/a> each recorded two hits, while <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/mulivai-levu\/15534\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15534\" target=\"_blank\">Mulivai Levu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/will-gasparino\/15558\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15558\" target=\"_blank\">Will Gasparino<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/payton-brennan\/15521\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15521\" target=\"_blank\">Payton Brennan<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jarrod-hocking\/15529\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15529\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrod Hocking<\/a> added one hit apiece.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/landon-stump\/15542\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15542\" target=\"_blank\">Landon Stump<\/a> (2-1) took his first loss of the season after allowing five runs over 3.0 innings.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUCLA grabbed the lead in the bottom of the second when Khansarinia delivered a two-out RBI single, bringing home Brennan after his leadoff walk.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Hornets answered with a five-run third inning, using back-to-back walks followed by three straight hits, including a home run from Jakob Posternak, to surge in front. The five-run frame matched the most runs UCLA has surrendered in a single inning this season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bruins got a run back in the fourth when Brennan drilled a triple off the center-field wall, then scored on <a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/aiden-aguayo\/15554\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15554\" target=\"_blank\">Aiden Aguayo&#8217;s<\/a> sacrifice fly. UCLA started to chip away when Cholowsky smoked a line drive that snuck over the left-field wall to make it a two-run ballgame.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSacramento State capitalized on a defensive miscue to push a run across in the sixth, then added three more runs in the seventh to extend the advantage to six.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bruins clawed closer in the seventh when Cholowsky crushed his second homer of the day, a towering three-run shot that sliced the deficit in half.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUCLA was unable to mount a comeback over the final two frames, suffering just its fourth defeat of the season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bruins begin a four-game road trip on Tuesday, April 28 when they travel to UC Santa Barbara. First pitch is set for 4:35 p.m. at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium, with live coverage available on ESPN+<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2013 The No.\u00a01-ranked UCLA baseball team fell to Sacramento State, 9-6, in Sunday&#8217;s series finale at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-287411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}