Cholowsky Homers Twice in No. 1 UCLA's 10-2 Win Over No. 7 TCU

Friday, February 20

Los Angeles, CA

5:00 PM (PT)

UCLA

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TCU

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TCU

UCLA

Roch Cholowsky

Photo by: Mac Brown

Cholowsky Homers Twice in No. 1 UCLA's 10-2 Win Over No. 7 TCU

February 20, 2026 | Baseball

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LOS ANGELES – Roch Cholowsky's two-homer night propelled the No. 1-ranked UCLA baseball team to a dominant 10-2 win over No. 7 TCU in Friday night's series opener at Jackie Robinson Stadium.

Cholowsky stayed scorching hot at the plate, following up his two-homer performance against Tulane with another multi-homer outing. The Bruins' (4-1) shortstop crushed a grand slam in the second inning and added a solo shot in the fifth, powering a five-RBI day. It marked the seventh multi-homer game of his UCLA career.

Starting pitcher Logan Reddemann (2-0) turned in another strong outing on the mound, earning his second win in as many starts. The right-hander matched his career high with 10 strikeouts and allowed just one run over five strong innings, yielding only five hits and a single walk in a composed, efficient outing.

Mulivai Levu continued his torrid stretch at the plate, logging his second straight four-hit game to lift his season average to .591. The Bruins' first baseman drove in two runs and scored another. Roman Martin reached base all five times he stepped in, going 2-for-2 with three walks and a run, while Cashel Dugger and Dean West added multi-hit efforts of their own.

Aiden Aguayo, Will Gasparino, and Jarrod Hocking also tallied one hit apiece.

UCLA blew the game open in the bottom of the second, erupting for five runs and chasing TCU starter Mason Brassfield early. Aiden Aguayo ignited the surge by drilling a double off the right-field wall, and Gasparino followed by grinding through a two-strike count before ripping another double down the right-field line. After Jarrod Hocking was hit by a pitch and West singled to load the bases, Cholowsky stepped to the plate. The Bruins' shortstop jumped on the first pitch he saw and launched a towering shot over the left-field wall, a grand slam that punctuated the inning's five-run outburst.

The Bruins tacked on two more in the third when Levu delivered a clutch two-out, two-strike liner into center, driving in a pair and stretching the lead to seven.

TCU briefly halted the surge in the fourth as Chase Brunson launched a solo homer, the lone blemish on Reddemann's otherwise commanding performance.

UCLA answered right back in the home half of the fifth, once again turning to its star shortstop. Cholowsky hammered a solo shot to right-center, his second homer of the evening, to push the margin even further. The inning kept rolling as Levu doubled and Martin worked a walk, and after two wild pitches and an RBI groundout from Aguayo, the Bruins carried a 10-1 advantage into the sixth.

Ian May toed the rubber after Reddemann departed and logged 1.2 scoreless innings. Chris Grothues climbed the hill in the sixth and he would retire all four batters he faced, and CJ Bott closed things out when he got the final three outs to clinch the win for UCLA.

The Bruins will return to Jackie Robinson Stadium tomorrow at 2 p.m. PT to host No. 7 TCU for game two of the series. The game will be available for viewing on B1G+.