Box Score MALIBU, Calif. –Play was suspended due to darkness on Tuesday, as the Pepperdine baseball team was trailing Cal Poly 11-6 in the middle of the eighth inning. The game will resume when the Waves travel to Cal Poly on May 7th.
 
Though they trailed the Mustangs early, the Waves had two innings in which they score all six of their runs before Cal Poly fought back to retake the lead.
 
BIG WAVES

• Senior outfielder Matthew Kanfer (Playa Del Ray, Calif./L.A.C.E.S.) went 2-for-3 on the day and drove in three runs for the Waves on an RBI double in the third and a bases-clearing triple in the fourth.
• Junior infielder Aharon Modlin (Irvine, Calif./Woodbridge HS) had a 2-RBI tie the game in the third inning.
• Senior outfielder Cory Wills (Henderson, Nev./Yavapai College) had the other RBI for the Waves, a bases loaded walk in the third.

 
PLAY-BY-PLAY
Cal Poly struck first in the first inning, scoring twice on RBI-singles to take a 2-0 lead after one. They scored twice more in the third to go up 4-0.
 
In the bottom of the third, after a Wyatt Young single, Kanfer doubled deep into right center, scoring Young from first. Kanfer was then brought in after a hit batsmen and a walk loaded the bases for Wills. He walked to cut the Mustangs' lead to two runs. Modlin then singled through the 3-4 hole, scoring both Kanfer from third and Charlie Welch from second, tying the game at 4-4 after three innings
 
The Waves kept Cal Poly from scoring in the fourth, and came back up in the bottom half. After a Young single, McAfee advanced to first after a strikeout due to a wild pitch. Kanfer then tripled to deep right field, scoring both Young and McAfee and giving the Waves a 6-4 lead.
 
Cal Poly tied the game back up at six in the sixth on a sharp single up the middle and another RBI single into left. Then in the seventh, a bases-clearing triple and an error allowed the Mustangs to take a 9-6 lead.
 
Before play was suspended due to darkness in the middle of the eighth, Cal Poly scored twice more to take an 11-6 lead after seven and a half innings.
 
 
UP NEXT
The Waves head to San Diego for the first West Coast Conference series with the University of San Diego this weekend. The first game will be Friday, starting at 3 p.m.  
 
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