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Junior
Drew Garcia hit his fourth home run of the season Friday.
(Photo
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(May
16, 2008) - UC Riverside dropped the first game of their weekend
series with UC Santa Barbara 13-2 at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium
in Santa Barbara, CA Friday afternoon. Drew Garcia finished
2-for-4 with a solo homer for the Highlanders (19-29, 12-7
Big West) who fall a game behind first place Cal State Fullerton
in the loss column.
UCSB
picked up 14 hits to improve to 32-19 overall and 11-8 in
the Big West.
Aaron
Wible gave UCR a 1-0 lead on a one-out squeeze play in the
first, scoring Joey Gonzalez who had walked and advanced to
third on a Drew Garcia base-hit to right earlier in the inning.
Highlander
starter Paul Applebee breezed through the first three innings,
allowing just one hit before he ran into trouble in the fourth.
UCSB picked up three hits and scored three runs as a one-out
two-run triple by Patrick Rose brought home the first two
runs. Another run came across one batter later on ground ball
off the bat of Gunner Terhune to give the Gauchos a 3-1 lead
through four.
In
the sixth, Garcia cut the UCSB lead to 3-2 with a solo blast
off of Gaucho starter Mike Ford high over the right field
fence. His fourth homer of the season extended his hitting
streak to 10 games, tying his career and season high.
UCSB
answered the UCR run with three runs in their half of the
sixth. A double by Rose brought home the first run of the
inning to chase Applebee. The first pitch from reliever Rob
Waite was chopped over a drawn-in infield into center field
to bring home another run and a sacrifice fly later scored
the third run of the inning, making it 6-2.
The
Gauchos added four runs in the seventh and three more in the
eighth to build their lead to 13-2. Ford pitched well with
the lead, limiting the Highlanders to two hits after giving
up the Garcia homer, to pick the complete-game victory and
improve his record to 6-4. Applebee (2-5) took the loss after
surrendering six earned runs on six hits in five-plus innings.
The
two teams resume their weekend series with a 1:00 p.m. game
tomorrow.
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