CARSON, Calif. – The Concordia University Irvine baseball team used scrappy play to manufacture a few extra runs on Friday at Cal State Dominguez Hills, and it all paid off in the end. 

Six different Golden Eagles knocked in at least one run and Michael Dixon smacked a solo homer and a RBI double to lead CUI to an 8-5 win.  Three of Concordia's runs came on sacrifice flies and that ended up being the margin of victory. A pair of runs also came across due to wild pitches.

Meanwhile, five different pitchers protected the lead together to get the needed 27 outs and CUI is now 3-1 to start the season.

Jordan Bolden put CUI in front to start the game in the first inning with a sacrifice fly to center that plated Isaiah Walz.

Haku Dudoit followed in the second frame with a RBI single to make it 2-0.

Then in the third, Dixon went yard to make it 3-0 Concordia.

Starting pitcher Jake Covey was cruising until the bottom half of the third inning.  One mistake to Nick Karliner however and the Toros were right back in the game. Karliner parked a three-run homer to reset things at 3-3 as the teams headed to the fourth.

Covey (2-0) went five innings and allowed four total runs.

He was backed by Ryan O'Toole and Kai James, who combined for two innings of relief, before Jason Rhodenbaugh and Conor Meehan shut the door in the final two frames.

Shane Wallace lifted a sac fly to score Dixon in the fifth. Cameron Slessor also put one in the air to score an insurance run in the top of the eighth.

Meehan secured his second save of the season by closing it out in the ninth.

CUI hosts the Toros on Saturday for a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. in Irvine.

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