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Senior Brenton Arriaga kept the #19 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos (1-1) off balance on Saturday night from Page Stadium, dealing a three-hit shutout with nine strikeouts as LMU (1-1) earned a 1-0 victory to even a three-game series at one game apiece.

Arriaga used 108 pitches to shut out the Gauchos, allowing just a pair of hits to UCSB leadoff man Clay Fisher, and one to Michael McAdoo.

The complete game shutout was the first for LMU since Colin Welmon went the distance in blanking Portland, 4-0, on the road on April 24, 2015.

The left-hander from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. needed just one run of support in the victory, and that tally came in the bottom of the third when Billy Wilson led off with a single to right field, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt, stole third, and came in to score on a productive ground ball from Spencer Erdman.

Wilson finished the game 2-for-3 hitting out of the ninth spot in the order. Sophomore Niko Decolati also posted two hits, going 2-for-4.

Arriaga struck out the first three he faced en route to retiring the first nine straight, and ultimately closed the game having retired the final 10 in a row, including four punch outs.

Fellow lefty Kyle Nelson got the start for UCSB and took the tough-luck loss, surrendering just the one run on five hits over 4.0 innings of work. Steven Ledesma tossed the final 4.0 innings for the Gauchos, striking out four and allowing three hits.

LMU will look to earn the series victory over the Gauchos on Sunday when the teams complete the three-game set at 1 p.m.