COLLEGE ROUNDUP : San Diego Goes Seven-Up in the First to Beat Chapman

San Diego, ranked No. 19 in the nation by Collegiate Baseball magazine, scored seven runs in the first inning in a 15-10 nonconference victory over Chapman Tuesday in San Diego.

Jacob Slania’s first collegiate home run, a three-run shot, keyed the inning.

Chapman (21-30) scored five in the top of the second, but San Diego (36-14) scored four more in the bottom of the inning to maintain control.

Buster Nietzke and Kevin Cook each had three of Chapman’s 12 hits. Nietzke had a triple and Cook had two doubles. San Diego had 20 hits.

Chapman left-hander Bob Skapik (2-7) retired two batters in the first before being replaced.

In the Big West Conference golf championships:

UC Irvine seventh--Drew Sells shot 234 (75-83-76) and Tim Hart had 241 (79-81-81) were Irvine’s top finishers at Spanish Trail in Las Vegas. Sells finished in a tie for 17th and Hart tied for 27th and the Anteaters finished with 952, 52 strokes behind first-place Nevada Las Vegas.