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Cal State Fullerton
UCR Loses Series on Identical 11-3 Score
4/30/2006 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Brandon Tripp and Justin Turner each homered and drove in three as No. 1 Cal State Fullerton took the rubber-match versus UC Riverside by an 11-3 score for the second straight day, in a Big West Conference series at Goodwin Field Sunday afternoon. The Titans won their 11th series in 13 opportunities and improve to 33-11 overall, and 10-2 in league, while the Highlanders fall to 22-17, 4-5.
Dustin Miller (9-1) became the Titans' second nine-game winner as he tossed a solid seven innings, allowing five scattered hits before handing the ball to the bullpen. Miller surrendered all three Riverside runs to score, though a pair of runs in the sixth would be unearned after an Evan McArthur throwing error extended the inning.
Riverside junior starter Taylor Bills allowed seven earned runs over six innings of work to drop his record to 4-3. Bills walked five and stuck out just one in the losing effort.
Turner and Tripp led the way offensively with a pair of hits each, with Tripp's first, a two-run home run to center that got the Titans on the board in the second inning. He later added an RBI single in the Titans' two-run sixth. Turner followed a seventh-inning single with his first-ever home run at Goodwin Field, a three-run shot to greet Riverside sophomore reliever Adam Reifer in the bottom of the eighth. That home run capped a four-run eighth, putting the game well out of reach.
Blake Davis added two RBI of his own with his 13th career triple in the third and a sacrifice fly in the eighth to drive in John Curtis both times from third base.
Riverside posted a lone run in the top of the third as senior RF Aaron Grant lifted a ball deep enough to Danny Dorn in left field to score junior INF Kyle Barratt from third. Barrett had singled and advanced around to third base one of sophomore SS Jaime Pedroza's team-leading two hits.
In the sixth, Evan McArthur made a great sliding grab to save a Brian Steinmeyer double down the third base line, but when he came up, his throw pulled Brett Pill off the bag allowing the UCR senior third baseman aboard with an error. The throwing miscue would have ended the inning, but as fate would have it two batters later, junior LF D.J. Hollingsworth launched his third home run of the year to right-center, getting the Highlanders as close as they would get at 4-3.
The Titans bounced back with two runs of their own in the bottom half of the sixth, and another again in the seventh to extend their lead to 7-4 for Titan relievers Ryan Paul and Vinnie Pestano to work with. The lefty-righty combination would toss a perfect eighth and ninth to secure the victory.
Dustin Miller (9-1) became the Titans' second nine-game winner as he tossed a solid seven innings, allowing five scattered hits before handing the ball to the bullpen. Miller surrendered all three Riverside runs to score, though a pair of runs in the sixth would be unearned after an Evan McArthur throwing error extended the inning.
Riverside junior starter Taylor Bills allowed seven earned runs over six innings of work to drop his record to 4-3. Bills walked five and stuck out just one in the losing effort.
Turner and Tripp led the way offensively with a pair of hits each, with Tripp's first, a two-run home run to center that got the Titans on the board in the second inning. He later added an RBI single in the Titans' two-run sixth. Turner followed a seventh-inning single with his first-ever home run at Goodwin Field, a three-run shot to greet Riverside sophomore reliever Adam Reifer in the bottom of the eighth. That home run capped a four-run eighth, putting the game well out of reach.
Blake Davis added two RBI of his own with his 13th career triple in the third and a sacrifice fly in the eighth to drive in John Curtis both times from third base.
Riverside posted a lone run in the top of the third as senior RF Aaron Grant lifted a ball deep enough to Danny Dorn in left field to score junior INF Kyle Barratt from third. Barrett had singled and advanced around to third base one of sophomore SS Jaime Pedroza's team-leading two hits.
In the sixth, Evan McArthur made a great sliding grab to save a Brian Steinmeyer double down the third base line, but when he came up, his throw pulled Brett Pill off the bag allowing the UCR senior third baseman aboard with an error. The throwing miscue would have ended the inning, but as fate would have it two batters later, junior LF D.J. Hollingsworth launched his third home run of the year to right-center, getting the Highlanders as close as they would get at 4-3.
The Titans bounced back with two runs of their own in the bottom half of the sixth, and another again in the seventh to extend their lead to 7-4 for Titan relievers Ryan Paul and Vinnie Pestano to work with. The lefty-righty combination would toss a perfect eighth and ninth to secure the victory.
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