SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The Arizona Wildcats used a big second inning to put Santa Clara in an early hole it couldn't rebound from, posting a 16-10 victory over the Broncos at Stephen Schott Stadium.
 
The Wildcats improved to 28-15 on the season, and rebounded from a tough weekend at Stanford where they dropped a three-game series to the Cardinal. Arizona will now head home after its four-game road trip to host Washington for a three-game set starting Friday night at 7 p.m., at Hi Corbett Field.
 
The Cats exploded for a 12-run inning in the second to give starting pitcher Michael Flynn more than enough breathing room. With one out, Ryan Haug and Louis Boyd started the rally with back-to-back one-out walks. Cal Stevenson followed with a single to score Haug for the first run of the game.
 
Arizona was far from done. Jared Oliva, Mitchell Morimoto and JJ Matijevic pieced together three straight RBI singles to make it 4-0 in favor of the Wildcats. Nick Quintana then walked to load the bases again. Alfonso Rivas then drew a walk to plate another run. The Cats added two more, one on an RBI groundout from Cory Voss and another on a bases loaded walk from Boyd.
 
Cal Stevenson then broke the game open for good with a 3-run double to right-center to make it 10-0. Oliva followed with an RBI double and Morimoto then came through with an RBI single to left to make it 12-0 and cap the scoring for the Wildcats. It was Arizona's second-highest scoring inning of the season. The Wildcats scored 14 runs in the fifth inning against Hartford on March 11.
 
After Santa Clara added a run in the bottom half of the inning, Alfonso Rivas hit his fifth home run of the season – a solo shot to right field – to make it 13-1 in the third. The Broncos got three runs back in the bottom half on a three-run home run from Tyler Meditz.
 
The Cats didn't score in the fourth, but added two more in the fifth. Haug and Boyd each had RBI fielder's choices to make the score 15-5. That stayed the score until the ninth inning. Oliva plated Arizona's 16^th run of the game when he doubled to left field to score Kyle Lewis, who singled earlier in the inning.
 
The hit was Oliva's fifth of the game, which marked a new career high for the junior centerfielder. He went 5 for 7 with three RBI and two runs scored. His previous high for hits in a game was four.
 
Santa Clara scored five runs in the bottom of the ninth to make it a six-run game, but that's as close as they could get.
 
Tylor Megill, who relieved Flynn, and went three innings, allowing one run on two hits, while striking out three, earned the win to improve to 2-3 on the season. Flynn went the first three innings, allowing four runs. Left-hander Rio Gomez chipped in two hitless innings for the Cats in the seventh and eighth, before giving way to Seve Romo for the ninth.
 
The win marked the ninth time this season the Wildcats scored 15 or more runs in a game and firs time since scoring 18 against Oregon in April. The Cats had five players record multi-hit games, led by Oliva. Rivas went 2 for 5 with a home run, two RBI and three runs scored. Stevenson reached base six times, going 2 for 3 with four RBI, two runs, three walks and a hit by pitch. Morimoto and Quintana each went 2 for 3. Morimoto had two RBI, while Quintana scored two runs.