The Wildcat baseball team turned a bid for revenge into a record-breaking blowout yesterday with a 21-13 pounding of Sacramento State in the finale of an eight-game, 11-day road trip.

Arizona (31-16, 9-6 Pacific-10 Conference), which lost to the Hornets (28-19) in its last home game before the road trip, rallied for 12 runs in the final three frames to erase a three-run deficit and run away with a victory in its final non-conference game of the season.

Five different Wildcats ÷ Brian Anderson, Moises Duran, Derek Decater, Brad Boyer and Dallas Haught ÷ hit a total of seven home runs to tie the school record, set two seasons ago against Washington State. Duran and Decater smashed two homers each en route to driving in six runs apiece.

The Arizona onslaught would yield two more record-breaking or -tying performances on the day. Duran's second homer, his fourth career grand slam, broke the previous career mark for a Wildcat, while freshmen cohorts Decater and Boyer each scored six runs to tie the school record, which had not been equaled in 52 years.

Boyer batted 4-for-5 on the day with four RBIs, while Duran hit 3-for-5 and Decater went 3-for-4. Anderson accounted for five runs of his own, hitting in three and scoring a pair.

With the UA lineup knocking so many balls out of the yard, Wildcat runners didn't need to worry about being left on base. In fact, Arizona did not strand a single baserunner for the first time in its 100-year baseball history.

Senior Brian Pemble (3-3), the only pitcher for either team not to allow a run, earned the win with 1.1 innings of relief.

Arizona returns to the friendly confines of Sancet Field for a six-game, two-week homestand beginning this weekend against California. The opening game will begin at 7 p.m. Friday.

Although the team won five of eight games on its season-long road trip that ended yesterday, including handing Stanford its first home series loss in more than three years, the return to campus will be a welcome relief for the players.

"I think everybody is looking forward to returning," Pemble said.

Head coach Andy Lopez said that he didn't know how his players felt, but he was glad to be returning to his family in Tucson.

"Even if they're not going to be ready to come home, I am," Lopez said. "I'm worn out with this last couple weeks of the schedule."

With only one road series öö the Pac-10 finale against rival Arizona State öö remaining in the regular season, Arizona boasts a 10-6 record away from home.

While a winning road record is nice, Lopez said the real importance of road trips lies in preparing the team to make its first College World Series since 1986.

"(The road trip) will be good for us. It will help get us ready for when there's regional play," he said. "In a regional setting, if you don't win your conference you're probably going to be on the road. Then, you're going to come home and you're going to be right back on the road again. I told the players: ÎYou've got to get used to doing this if you want to go to (CWS host city) Omaha.'"