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Photo by: Luke Bourgeois
No. 14 UCLA Run-Rules Northwestern to Earn Share of Big Ten Regular Season Title
May 17, 2025 | Baseball
LOS ANGELES โย The No. 14-ranked UCLA baseball team earned a share of the Big Ten Conference regular season title with its 11-1 run-rule victory over Northwestern on Saturday afternoon at Jackie Robinson Stadium.
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UCLA (39-15, 22-8) claimed its first conference crown since 2019, marking Head Coach John Savage's fifth conference championship at the helm. The Bruins announced their arrival by winning eight of their 10 series and did not lose a single series at home.
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Mulivai Levu delivered the knockout punch in the seventh, smacking an RBI single that triggered the mercy rule with UCLA's 10-run advantage. The first baseman's exclamation point pushed his season RBI total to 71.
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Starting pitcher Landon Stump (6-0) delivered one of his best starts of the season, tossing a career-high 6.2 innings of one run ball. His only blemish was a first-inning solo home run, then the righty settled down, surrendering just four hits and punching out a total of five batters in his excellent outing.
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Roman Martin and AJ Salgado each belted a home run to lead UCLA's offensive charge. Salgado highlighted his senior day performance with three RBIs and a pair of extra-base hits.
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Dean West stayed scorching hot in the leadoff spot with his second straight multi-hit game, going 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored. Roch Cholowsky drew two intentional walks among his three free passes while notching a base hit to extend his hitting streak to 18 games.
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Northwestern struck first when Ryan Kucherak unloaded his third homer of the weekend, a solo blastย that gave his team an early lead in the top of the first.
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UCLA stormed back in the bottom half when Salgado's scorching two-out double split the left-center gap to bring home two runs.
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The Bruins broke it open in the fourth when Phoenix Call delivered in the clutch, ripping a bases-loaded single up the middle to drive in two. West kept the rally alive by smoking a double into the gap for another run, and Levu's productive ground out capped an important four-run explosion.
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Salgado continued to swing a hot bat when his solo home run snuck over the right-field wall to extend UCLA's lead to six. This was the senior's 12thย big fly of the campaign. In the Bruins' next trip to the plate. Martin launched a no-doubt two-run blast to be the catalyst for a three-run inning.
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UCLA will enter the Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament presented by IFS.ai as the number two seed due to its April series loss in Eugene, Ore., giving the Ducks the tiebreaker and top seed. The Bruins will play their first game of the postseason tournament at 8 a.m. PT (10 a.m. CT) against number-11 seed Illinois at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Neb.ย
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UCLA (39-15, 22-8) claimed its first conference crown since 2019, marking Head Coach John Savage's fifth conference championship at the helm. The Bruins announced their arrival by winning eight of their 10 series and did not lose a single series at home.
ย
Mulivai Levu delivered the knockout punch in the seventh, smacking an RBI single that triggered the mercy rule with UCLA's 10-run advantage. The first baseman's exclamation point pushed his season RBI total to 71.
ย
Starting pitcher Landon Stump (6-0) delivered one of his best starts of the season, tossing a career-high 6.2 innings of one run ball. His only blemish was a first-inning solo home run, then the righty settled down, surrendering just four hits and punching out a total of five batters in his excellent outing.
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Roman Martin and AJ Salgado each belted a home run to lead UCLA's offensive charge. Salgado highlighted his senior day performance with three RBIs and a pair of extra-base hits.
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Dean West stayed scorching hot in the leadoff spot with his second straight multi-hit game, going 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored. Roch Cholowsky drew two intentional walks among his three free passes while notching a base hit to extend his hitting streak to 18 games.
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Northwestern struck first when Ryan Kucherak unloaded his third homer of the weekend, a solo blastย that gave his team an early lead in the top of the first.
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UCLA stormed back in the bottom half when Salgado's scorching two-out double split the left-center gap to bring home two runs.
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The Bruins broke it open in the fourth when Phoenix Call delivered in the clutch, ripping a bases-loaded single up the middle to drive in two. West kept the rally alive by smoking a double into the gap for another run, and Levu's productive ground out capped an important four-run explosion.
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Salgado continued to swing a hot bat when his solo home run snuck over the right-field wall to extend UCLA's lead to six. This was the senior's 12thย big fly of the campaign. In the Bruins' next trip to the plate. Martin launched a no-doubt two-run blast to be the catalyst for a three-run inning.
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UCLA will enter the Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament presented by IFS.ai as the number two seed due to its April series loss in Eugene, Ore., giving the Ducks the tiebreaker and top seed. The Bruins will play their first game of the postseason tournament at 8 a.m. PT (10 a.m. CT) against number-11 seed Illinois at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Neb.ย
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Stump, Landon (6-0)
L: MACMILLAN, BLAKE (5-3)
Batting:
2B: MCELFATRICK, OWEN 1
HR: KUCHERAK, RYAN 1
RBI: KUCHERAK, RYAN 1
Base Running:
RUNS: KUCHERAK, RYAN 1
HBP: HAND, JACOB 1
Batting:
2B: West, Dean 1 ; Salgado, AJ 1
HR: Martin, Roman 1 ; Salgado, AJ 1
RBI: West, Dean 1 ; Levu, Mulivai 3 ; Martin, Roman 2 ; Salgado, AJ 3 ; Call, Phoenix 2
SH: Dugger, Cashel 1
SF: Levu, Mulivai 1
Base Running:
RUNS: West, Dean 1 ; Cholowsky, Roch 2 ; Martin, Roman 2 ; Salgado, AJ 1 ; Brennan, Payton 1 ; Bythewood, Toussaint 1 ; Dugger, Cashel 1 ; Call, Phoenix 2
SB: West, Dean 1 ; Cholowsky, Roch 1
CS: Levu, Mulivai 1
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