• Box Score

The Cats improved to 11-8 with the win, while the Green Wave fell to 5-4.

Diggins allowed just three hits through eight innings before running into trouble in the ninth. Tulane scored a run to pull within 4-3 and loaded the bases with two outs. Diggins struck out senior right fielder Mickey McKee to end the rally.

Diggins allowed just two earned runs on six hits, five of them singles. His 13 strike outs were the most by a Wildcat pitcher since James Johnson fanned 15 at Oregon State on March 28, 1998. He is the first Arizona hurler to throw consecutive complete games since Ryan Frace did so on Feb. 26 and March 4, 1995.

Tulane senior right-hander Henry Bonilla (1-1) also went the distance, allowing three earned runs on seven hits.

Arizona rallied from a 2-0 deficit after three and a half innings. Junior shortstop Keoni DeRenne hit his second home run of the season to cut the lead in half in the fourth. In the sixth, the Cats scored twice, including the go-ahead run on a two-out single by junior first baseman Ernie Durazo. The hit extended Durazo's career-best hitting streak to 15.

The two teams will face off again Saturday at 11 a.m.

                        
#15 Tulane        101     000     001     -       3       6       1
Arizona           000     102     10x     -       4       7       2
Bonilla and Herz; Diggins and Cunningham. W-Diggins (4-0). L-Bonilla (1-1).
Hrs-UA: DeRenne (2).