Davis, Calif. - UC Davis' season opener was suspended in the ninth inning due to darkness on Friday evening with the Aggies trailing Saint Mary's 4-2. The game will resume on Saturday at 1 p.m. with the teams' regularly scheduled Saturday game to follow 30 minutes afterwards. 

The Tommy Nicholson-era was off to a strong start prior to the sun setting behind University Credit Union Center. 

Nate Freeman battled through five innings, allowing two earned runs while working around seven baserunners and Bryan Green pitched three strong innings of relief. In his first collegiate appearance, Green allowed just one hit and no walks on 33 pitches. 

The Gaels scored first on a single in the top of the second but answered in the bottom half of the inning. Jake Brandel led off with a walk, advanced to third on a single by Mark Wolbert and later scored on a wild pitch. After Saint Mary's retook the lead on a single in the top of the third, Freeman ended a bases loaded jam by getting a double play ball to end the inning. That kept UC Davis within 2-1 before a towering, one-out home run by Raul Sandoval in the bottom of the fifth. 

Green relieved Freeman to start the sixth and kept the game scoreless until Saint Mary's got to Nathan Peng in the top of the ninth for two runs. 

Nick Leehey will lead off the bottom of the ninth on Saturday for the Aggies.