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RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Cameron Olson's one-out RBI double in the ninth plated teammate Tanner Bily with the go-ahead run Sunday afternoon, lifting the UC Davis baseball team to a come-from-behind, 13-12, slugfest victory over host UC Riverside in a nearly four-hour marathon at the Riverside Sports Complex.

After falling in heartbreaking walk-off fashion on Saturday night, the Aggies snapped a five-game skid, improving to 7-15 overall and 1-2 in Big West Conference play. The Highlanders fell to 12-14, 2-1.

Olson's game-winning hit was his third of the day, capping off a three RBI day by finding some room in right field to score Bily, who led-off the inning with a single.

Right-hander Blake Peters (3-2) then retired the side in order in the ninth on a pair of fly balls and a groundout to nail down the win. Peters, the fifth pitcher of the day for UC Davis, walked one and struck out one over the final 2.1 innings of work to earn the win.

Ryan Lillie (3-2), who earned the win in each of the first two games of the series for the Highlanders, took the loss, allowing the run on three hits in an inning of work. He was one of eight pitchers to take the mound for Riverside on the day in relief of starter Angel Landazuri, who allowed seven runs (four earned) on six hits over just 1.2 innings of work.

The Aggies were the ones to jump out first, sending 11 batters to the plate as part of a seven run second and adding two more in the third to build what was thought to be an insurmountable nine-run lead. Three straight hits to lead-off the second loaded the bases and a wild pitch cashed in the first run of the game as Olson scored from third for the 1-0 advantage.

Freshman David Langer followed with an RBI single, Chris Roppolo added an RBI fielder's choice which allowed a run to score, Bily drove in another with a double that one-hopped the wall in right center field, and an error on an infield single by Jacob Thomas for a 5-0 advantage.

After a second Riverside error in the inning, Olson collected his second hit of the frame, lacing a triple to centerfield to plate both Thomas and Mark Cardinalli, who reached on the error just one batter earlier, for the 7-0 lead.

The Highlanders stranded one in their half of the second before a single by Spencer Henderson and a pair of bunt singles by Roppolo and Brad Pluschkell with one out loaded the bases once again for the Aggies, who made good when Bily and Thomas followed with run-scoring singles for the 9-0 lead before a double play ended the inning.

That's when the floodgates opened for the Riverside offense, which regained the lead by scoring all 12 of its runs in a wild bottom of the third, sending 17 batters to the plate and scoring 10 of those runs with two outs. Vince Fernandez, who had the walk-off three run home run to end Saturday night's game, finished with two of the Highlanders' eight hits in the inning, driving in four by himself, while four different hitters accounted for six more RBI, to give UCR a 12-9 advantage.

UC Davis regained its composure and made it a one-run game with two more scores in its half of the fourth, loading the bases with one out without the benefit of a hit. A strikeout put Riverside on the verge of escaping the jam, but Pluschkell rolled the second pitch he saw through the left side, scoring Olson and Henderson to make it 12-11.

Aggie pitching settled down and limited the Highlanders to just two hits and six base runners the rest of the way, stranding six -- including three in scoring position. Meanwhile, freshman Logan Denholm led-off the eighth with a double to left, moved to third on a groundout by Henderson, and scored on a ball back through the box by Langer to tie the game and set up Olson's ninth-inning heroics.

Bily joined Olson with three hits on the day, one of eight Aggies that finished with multiple hits and helped the team rack up a season-high 19 for the game. It was the highest hit total for UC Davis since the Aggies finished with 21 hits against Hawai'i on May 18, 2014. The 13 runs scored were also a season-high and the most since a 13-1 win over the Highlanders at Dobbins Stadium on March 29, 2015.

UC Davis returns home on Tuesday (April 5) at 2:30 p.m., welcoming San Francisco to Dobbins Stadium for a second time this season, before hosting Hawai'i for a three-game conference series on April 8-10. Game times for the weekend are set for 2:30 p.m. on Friday and 1 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.

UC Davis 13, UC Riverside 12 (Apr 03, 2016 at Riverside, CA)
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UC Davis............ 072 200 011 - 13 19 0 (7-15, 1-2 Big West)
UC Riverside........ 00(12) 000 000 - 12 11 4 (12-14, 2-1 Big West)
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Pitchers: UC Davis - Hamby, Nat; Blais, Matt (3); Brown, Chris (3); Briggs, Cameron (7); Peters, Blake (7) and Denholm, Logan. UC Riverside - Landazuri, A; Ellis, M(2); Leach, K(4); Morton, J(5); Fagalde, A(6); Quijada, H(7); Worrell, J(8); Lillie, R(8); Haskell, C(9) and Worden, C; Zarate, D.
Win - Peters, Blake (3-2) Loss - Lillie, R (3-2) T-3:54 A-198
Weather: Southern California
Blais faced 7 batters in the 3rd.