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Box
Score (April
15, 2008) - UCR dropped a 10-7 decision to San Diego State
in a non-conference match-up at Tony Gwynn Stadium in San
Diego, CA Tuesday night. Carl
Uhl led the way for the Highlanders (9-22) with two RBI
including his second homer of the season.
Uhl
got the Highlanders an early 1-0 lead with his second lead
off home run of the season, a solo shot to left field. He
led off a game at Nebraska in similar fashion. UCR then opened
up 3-0 lead with two runs in the fourth. Joey
Gonzales started off the inning with a base-hit up the
middle to extend his hitting streak to seven games. Drew
Garcia followed with a walk and then moved up to second
on a fielder’s choice off the bat of Aaron
Wible. Ryan
Goetz followed with a sharply hit single to right that
brought around Garcia. Wible, who went to third on the play,
then scored on passed ball to give UCR a 3-0 lead.
SDSU
(22-15) then began their comeback against Riverside starter
Paul
Applebee an inning later, as the first four Aztecs each
singled to start the fifth. Two runs came across chasing Applebee
and then with the bases loaded and nobody out, the Highlanders
brought in Rob
Waite. Waite struck out SDSU leading hitter Troy Hanzawa
for the first out and then got Garret Green to fly out to
center field but the Aztecs tied the game at 3-3 as Pat Colwell
came home on the Green sacrifice fly. Waite escaped further
damage with a strikeout to keep the game tied at 3-3.
In
the sixth, the Aztecs rallied for three runs, all with two
outs off of Waite. The first run came across on a wild pitch
and two more runners came home on a two-run single to open
up a 6-3 SDSU lead.
UCR made it a 6-4 lead in the seventh as Daniel
Pellegrino led of the inning with a single, was bunted
to second, and later came home on Uhl’s sacrifice fly
to left.
After
the Aztecs added another run in the seventh to take a 7-4
lead, UCR continued to battle as Wible doubled home Garcia
to again cut the lead to two, 7-5. SDSU added three runs in
the eighth and then gave way to their bullpen who held off
a late Highlander rally, as they put up two runs in the ninth
pick up the 10-7 victory.
Waite
(1-4) suffers the loss after allowing three earned runs in
his 1.2 innings of relief. Solow (2-6) earns the win after
limiting the Highlanders to four hits in his six innings of
work.
The
Aztecs take the season series 2-0 from UCR.
The
Highlanders wrap up their eight game road stretch with a three-game
Big West Conference series at #6 UC Irvine beginning at 6
p.m. on Friday.
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