The BYU baseball team suffered its fourth loss of the week, dropping a 9-4 game to Mountain West Conference foe San Diego State on saturday at Miller Field, giving the Aztecs the 2-1 advantage in the three-game series.

BYU pitchers began the day zipping through the first two innings, forcing the first six batters into ground ball and popups, including a double play to end the second. Meanwhile, a Kent Walton hit in the bottom of the first inning gave BYU a 1-0 lead, its only lead of the game.

"You know it was good start for us," said BYU head coach Vance Law. "We had a great first two innings and then all of a sudden they were hitting everything. It was like a switch. I don't know if they were picking up on our signals or what, because they were swinging on pitches in strange situations, but I think that third inning was the turning point. From then on it was a whole different game."

The Aztecs (30-22, 16-8), third place in the MWC standings, did turn the tide completely in the third, exploding for five runs off of just four hits, capped by a two-run double from SDSU shortstop Troy Hanzawa, his first of three doubles in the game.

BYU attempted to answer back in the third with a two-run inning as center fielder Kent Walton earned his 12th double of the year on his shot that went screaming down the left field foul line staying just fair as they attempted to chip away at their early deficit.

Walton finished 2-for-5 with three RBI as the brightest Cougar star in the game.

While fresh off only their second victory in May, thus far, a Friday night win over the Aztecs that saw 13 Cougar hits translated into a 10-4 victory, Saturday the hits still continued for the Cougars, but the runs did not.

Aside from the solid eight innings pitched from SDSU starting pitcher, Nate Solow (5-6) who finished with six strikeouts and the win, the Cougar's left eight runners on base which added to their inability to get across the plate.

"We would hit straight into double plays, or right into their gloves and you just can't expect to score runs like that and that leaves us with the high number of runners left on base that we had today," said Law.

The Cougar's would try to make it a game as they pulled within one run after Brandon Relf reached in the fourth inning and scored on a triple by Sean McNaughton, his fourth on the year increasing his team-leading hit total to 87 on the season.

Within one run was as close as they would ever get as Aztec Brandon Decker connected on his first home run of the season, a two-run shot that again re-established a sizable lead at 7-4 in the fifth.

Starting pitcher for the Cougars, Blake Torgerson, (5-4) retired after the first batter he faced in the top of the sixth, reached second on a shot just over the infield and was replaced by the left handed hurler, Jared Miller.

Miller began his turn on the mound on a good note with a strike out against the first batter he faced, but gave up a single from Aztec first baseman Brett Tanos scoring a run which doubled up the Cougars at 8-4.

Both sides would add a single run in the ninth, both inconsequential to the outcome to the game as the Cougars fall to 1-4 in their last five games with the loss.

The Cougars head into a five game road trip to end the season against Utah Valley and Utah before the MWC Tournament.

San Diego State 005 021 001 -- 9 13 4

Brigham Young 102 100 001 -- 5 11 0

WP: Solow, 5-6 (SDSU), LP: Torgerson, 5-4 (BYU) 2B: Hanzawa 3, Vaughn 2, WALTON. 3B: McNaughton. HR: Decker.