Tuesday, April 21
Riverside Sports Complex
6:00 PM
University of California, Riverside
17
vs
6
UCLA
Highlanders End Losing Streak With 17-6 Win Over UCLA
4/21/2009 6:30:17 PM | Baseball
UC Riverside 17, UCLA 6 - Box Score
The UC Riverside baseball team (21-13) appears to have broken out of its hitting slump over the past three games. After scoring six and nine runs in the final two games of the UC Irvine series over the weekend, the Highlanders banged out a Division I era record tying 24 hits in a 17-6 win over visiting UCLA (17-20). The win snapped a five-game UC Riverside losing streak.
All nine UCR starters reached base with eight doing so by way of a hit. In addition, eight of the nine starters scored a run and seven of nine drove in at least one run. Ryan Goetz and Joey Gonzales led the Highlanders with four hits apiece and four other players - Michael Hur, Carl Uhl, Robert Brantly and Brian McConkey - had three.
The 24 base knocks tied the program's Division I record for hits in a game set twice back in the 2007 season, most recently at Cal State Northridge on May 12, 2007. The 17 runs were the most since the Highlanders plated 19 at Pacific on May 3, 2008.
Matt Larkins (2-1) picked up the win for UCR going three and a third innings in relief of starter Ryan Platt who pitched the first three innings for the Highlanders. Bruins starter Garett Claypool faced just four batters before being removed with no outs in the first. By that time, Uhl had a leadoff home run, Goetz drove in Michael Nesbitt and there were runners on second and third.
Rob Rasmussen replaced Claypool and was promptly greeted by a Brantly double to center which scored a pair. Two outs later, with Brantly at third, McConkey reached on an infield single and the Highlanders led 5-1.
UCLA put two on the board in the second and one in the third, but UC Riverside countered with one in the second, five in the third and one in the fourth effectively putting the game out of reach. (Listen to Hur's home run in the third)
The Highlanders resume Big West Conference play this weekend with a three-game set at Cal State Northridge.
The UC Riverside baseball team (21-13) appears to have broken out of its hitting slump over the past three games. After scoring six and nine runs in the final two games of the UC Irvine series over the weekend, the Highlanders banged out a Division I era record tying 24 hits in a 17-6 win over visiting UCLA (17-20). The win snapped a five-game UC Riverside losing streak.
All nine UCR starters reached base with eight doing so by way of a hit. In addition, eight of the nine starters scored a run and seven of nine drove in at least one run. Ryan Goetz and Joey Gonzales led the Highlanders with four hits apiece and four other players - Michael Hur, Carl Uhl, Robert Brantly and Brian McConkey - had three.
The 24 base knocks tied the program's Division I record for hits in a game set twice back in the 2007 season, most recently at Cal State Northridge on May 12, 2007. The 17 runs were the most since the Highlanders plated 19 at Pacific on May 3, 2008.
Matt Larkins (2-1) picked up the win for UCR going three and a third innings in relief of starter Ryan Platt who pitched the first three innings for the Highlanders. Bruins starter Garett Claypool faced just four batters before being removed with no outs in the first. By that time, Uhl had a leadoff home run, Goetz drove in Michael Nesbitt and there were runners on second and third.
Rob Rasmussen replaced Claypool and was promptly greeted by a Brantly double to center which scored a pair. Two outs later, with Brantly at third, McConkey reached on an infield single and the Highlanders led 5-1.
UCLA put two on the board in the second and one in the third, but UC Riverside countered with one in the second, five in the third and one in the fourth effectively putting the game out of reach. (Listen to Hur's home run in the third)
The Highlanders resume Big West Conference play this weekend with a three-game set at Cal State Northridge.
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