The Tritons, coming off of two straight blowout wins with scores of 16-2 and 25-3 against UC Berkeley and UC Irvine respectively, looked to continue their roll against CSU Channel Islands. In the bottom of the first inning, despite seeing only 5 pitches the entire inning, the red hot Tritons offense scratched across a run to quickly take a 1-0 lead. Later in the bottom of the third inning, the Tritons would score two more times on a Matt Steele triple, an error, and two singles to make the score 3-0. However, CSUCI would fight back in the next half inning with two runs of their own to cut the lead back down to one and knocking out starting pitcher Ethan Adamson, who had been cruising up until that point. The close score would not last as a two-run single by third basemen Chris Haven would bring the lead back to three in the bottom of the fourth inning. The Tritons would cough up one more run to bring the score to 5-3 and it would stay that way until the bottom of the sixth where a double, hit batter, and a single would set up a bases loaded situation for pinch hitter Nick Bettencourt who hit a bases clearing single as the right fielder had trouble handling the baseball. Pitcher Ethan Ou, acting as the closer once again, quieted the CSUCI offense for the last two innings with the only baserunner being a walk as he acquired his first save of the season in an 8-3 Triton victory.

The second and final game of the series started off with a quiet first inning for both teams. However the next inning, the injury bug would hit the Tritons as starting pitcher Ben Pajak would leave the game due to injury after pitching an inning and a third. CSUCI would score in the top of the second inning and take their first lead of the series. However this lead would not last as the Tritons would score six times in the bottom half of the inning, tallying two walks, two hits, and two catcher’s interferences. The Tritons would score four more times over the next two innings as relief pitcher Finn Daecher settled in pitching two and two thirds innings of scoreless baseball in his season debut. Caleb Galdston had his own impressive season debut as he relieved Daecher, striking out two in his one inning of work. With the score at 10-1, the Tritons only needed to score one more time before winning by mercy and it didn’t take long as a triple by Matt Steele, who had a single, double, and two triples across both games, and a single by Brandon Imai finished the game by a score of 11-1.