FULLERTON, Calif. – The Arizona Wildcats dropped a competitive midweek affair at Cal State Fullerton on Wednesday night 4-0, falling to 13-3 on the season.
 
Arizona was held to three hits in the loss, getting one apiece from Jared Oliva, JJ Matijevic and Alfonso Rivas. Fullerton's Dillon Brown started, tossing three scoreless innings, and earned his first win of the season in front of 1,899 fans at Goodwin Field. The Titans' Maxwell Gibbs, Blake Workman and Brett Conine then combined to toss six shutout innings in relief to keep the Wildcats off the board.
 
The Cats got a strong pitching performance from six different pitchers, with left-hander Rio Gomez starting. Gomez went 3 2/3 innings, giving up two runs on four hits and striking out six. The junior fell to 2-2 on the season. Luke Soroko and Randy Labaut pitched 2 1/3 scoreless in relief of Gomez and the Titans didn't add a third run until the seventh inning. The Titans added another in the eighth to get it to 4-0.
 
The Cats got a runner on in each of the first three innings, getting a man to second in the second and third. But the second inning threat ended on a ground out and the third inning came to an end on a another ground out from Mitchell Morimoto.
 
Trailing 2-0, Kyle Lewis led off the inning with a walk and moved to second on a wild pitch. But a pair of strikeouts and a ground out ended the inning again for the Wildcats. Matijevic led off the seventh with a single to give the Cats another chance, still trailing just 2-0. But a fly out, strikeout and foul pop out closed the inning.
 
The Cats went in order in the eighth and got a single from Rivas in the ninth, but nothing else.
 
Arizona will stay on the road and open Pac-12 play Friday at UCLA with a three-game series. Senior left-hander JC Cloney will start Friday's affair for the Cats.