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No. 19 San Diego remained atop the West Coast Conference on Thursday night as it fought off second-place BYU baseball for a 6-3 victory.
The Toreros (27-9 overall and 13-3 WCC) maintained their jinx over BYU (20-14 and 9-4), which is winless against USD in nine tries at San Diego dating back to 1979.
In the ninth inning, Cougar Colton Shaver hit a 370-foot-plus three-run home run to left-center for his eighth dinger of the season to offset five scoreless singles. Keaton Kringlen led off the ninth with BYU’s sixth single, which ended up being BYU’s first run of the night via Shaver’s smash.