SEATTLE – The scoreboard result pleased Cal baseball coach Mike Neu on Friday night, and the path his team took to get there did as well.

Using a freshman-heavy pitching committee, and getting an offensive boost from some of their role players, the Bears rang up a 4-3 victory over Washington to assure a series victory in their final weekend of the regular season.

Cal (32-18, 17-11 Pac-12) mustered just four hits but made the most of them, winning for the 21^st time in its past 28 games and sustaining momentum as they prepare for what they hope is the program's first postseason berth since 2015.

The Bears will go for a sweep at Husky Ballpark on Saturday afternoon, with rain a possible factor in the scheduled 12:05 p.m. finale.

Hance Smith, who drew a start at third  base with Quentin Selma getting the night off, homered in the third to get Cal on the board after Washington took an early lead. Coming off a four-hit, four-RBI night in Thursday's 18-8 win, Sam Wezniak delivered an RBI double in the fourth.

John Lagattuta, who started at designated hitter with Grant Holman drawing the starting pitching  assignment, drilled an RBI double to the right-center gap in the sixth. That scored Korey Lee, and when Washington right fielder Mason Cerrillo mishandled the ball on the warning track, Wezniak came around to score too.

The play turned a 3-2 deficit into a 4-3 Bears lead.

"We were just real happy with the way the guys performed," Neu said. "We had a lot of new guys in there, a lot of pitchers that haven't thrown  recently. I thought all those guys stepped up to the challenge. They did a nice job. And we had some big hits. Lagattuta had a huge game-winning hit. Hance Smith had a big hit."

The Bears used six pitchers, the first four of them freshmen, to hold the Huskies (28-24, 12-17) to six hits. Nick Proctor delivered 1 2/3 scoreless innings in relief of  Holman. Mitchell Scott relieved Ian Villers in the fifth and got a big strikeout to strand the bases loaded. Scott wound up getting credited with his first collegiate win.

Sophomore Jack Wolger delivered 1 1/3 scoreless innings and junior Rogelio Reyes looked very sharp over the final 2 2/3 innings, striking  out four and notching his first save of the season.

Cole Elvis, the Bears' freshman backup catcher, got pressed into first-base duty when Andrew Vaughn left the game due to illness in the fourth. Elvis came through with a nice stop in the seventh of Cerrillo's grounder, tagged the bag and threw to second to complete an inning-ending double play.

The Bears now will go for the sweep Saturday, hoping to further strengthen a resume that already appears to have them in great shape for an at-large berth into the 64-team NCAA Regionals field. The Selection Show airs Monday at 9 a.m. on ESPNU.