Titans Defeat Northridge, Lovato Posts First Victory
Nick Lovato gave up two hits over five innings and Chris Beck drove in two runs as Cal State Fullerton defeated Cal State Northridge, 6-3, in a nonconference baseball game Tuesday at Fullerton.
Lovato (1-0), who pitched 6 1/3 innings of hitless relief in his college debut against USC last Wednesday, gave up one unearned run, struck out eight and didn’t walk a batter.
Jake Moon came on in relief in the sixth, walked two batters and hit another before giving way to George Carralejo, who got out of the inning. Carralejo and Kirk Saarloos gave up four hits over the final four innings. The Titans are 35-17; Northridge is 23-33.
Beck, Chris Stringfellow and Jake Epstein had two hits each for Fullerton, which led, 6-1, after four innings.
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