PORTLAND, Ore. --- The Portland Pilots scored five runs yesterday and 11 more today to top UC Davis 16-3 in a nonconference baseball game at Joe Etzel Field that took two days to finish due to the inclement weather. Rain halted the Pilots and Aggies on Saturday after six innings, with UP leading 5-3. It’s the fifth straight win for Portland (8-13).

Portland, who beat the Aggies 19-0 in the on Friday, has outscored UC Davis 35-3 in two games.

UP starter Sean Sargent (3-4) pitched all six innings for the Pilots and gave up the three runs on three hits. He struck out four with no walks. Junior reliever Austin Dirkx allowed no hits and struck out two in three scoreless innings of work to pick up his fourth save of the season.

UC Davis starter Brent Nicols (0-1) lasted five innings in the loss, giving up four runs, two earned, on five hits.

Portland totaled 14 hits for the game, while UC Davis (10-11) had seven. The Aggies also committed five errors to Portland’s one.

Seniors Travis Vetters and Matthew Peters each went 3 for 5 with three RBI’s for the game. Junior Justin Ehlers went 3 for 6 with an RBI and two runs scored, junior Jesse Rodgers was 2 for 4 with two RBI’s and sophomore Danny Meier had two hits in five at-bats with 2 RBI’s.

Down 3-1 in the fifth inning, Meier sent the first pitch from Nicols deep over the wall in left-center field for a solo home run. Meier’s team-high fourth blast of the season came with one out.

The Pilots weren’t finished in the fifth. With two outs, freshman Sean Nicol kept the inning going by reaching base on an error by the first baseman. Nicol then stole second before scoring when Ehlers hit a single to right field tying the game at 3-3. Ehlers advanced to second on the throw home. Rodgers then gave Portland its first lead of the game with an RBI single to the gap in right-center field to score Ehlers.

Still up 4-3 an inning later, Peters reached base on another UCD error. The Pilots again took advantage of the miscue as Meier knocked in his second run of the day with a double to left field that plated Peters making it 5-3.

After UC Davis failed to scored in the top of the seventh after the game had resumed, Portland exploded for four runs in the bottom of the seventh and seven more in the eighth. Vetters did most of the damage in the seventh with a two-run single to right-center field off of Aggies’ reliever Andy Boas.

In the eighth, Rodgers, Vetters, Peters, sophomore Cory Wiltshire, freshman Paul Crowder and Nicol all had an RBI.

The Pilots and Aggies will play the final game of the three-game series on Sunday afternoon.