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Cal usually gives the UA trouble, and Saturday was one of those games before the No. 4 Wildcats pulled out a 6-4 victory.

"Cal is one of those teams that comes in and plays us hard whether they are 50-0 or 0-50," UA coach Mike Candrea said. "It was kind of the game that I expected. I was a little disappointed in the beginning. I thought we came into the ballpark with not a lot of energy."

With the game tied at 2 in the fourth, Chelsie Mesa resurrected the Wildcats (30-8, 6-1 Pac-10) when she plated Adrienne Acton and Caitlin Lowe with a double to left-center.

"Coach Candrea says hits are contagious," Mesa said. "Once you see someone getting on, it kind of fuels the fire. The team comes out and everyone comes out with their best and gets hits throughout the game."

Arizona scored twice more in the fifth with the first coming on a fly out from Laine Roth. Callista Balko went home on a single to right from K'Lee Arredondo.

The unranked Golden Bears (25-22, 2-6) responded in the sixth with an RBI single. With bases loaded, Arizona's Taryne Mowatt walked Alex Sutton to make the score 6-4.

"Top of the sixth, well you know, I kind of had some walks that could have gone either way in my opinion," Mowatt said. "But we got out of it and still had the lead, so it's OK."

Cal scored first when Julie Meyer scored on a wild pitch in the third. Sutton later scored on a double from Christina Schallig.

"It was a tough inning," Mowatt said. "I felt like everything I was throwing, they were somehow getting a piece of it, whether it was a good hit or a ball that somehow had eyes and found its way on the ground."

After two scoreless innings, Mesa doubled to center to drive in Lowe for the Cats' first run.