BASEBALL: TOP-RANKED STANFORD UPSET BY USC.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. upset No. 1 Stanford 11-8 Sunday after junior Cole Ganser stopped a potential bases-loaded rally in the sixth inning by striking out Stanford's John Mayberry Michael Moon was 2 for 5 with two RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in and Billy Hart had a two-run single for host USC (5-9). Ganser (1-0) earned the victory and Michael Friedman earned his first collegiate save. --CS Northridge 6, No. 7 Long Beach State 4: The visiting Matadors scored three runs on three consecutive extra-base hits in the seventh inning by Michael Paulk, Mark McCauley and Alberto Quintana. Phil Polanco got the save for Northridge (8-12), but not before getting a groundout with two outs and the bases loaded to end the game. --Loyola Marymount 9, San Diego 8: Jonathan Higashi led off the bottom of the ninth with a walk-off home run In baseball, a walk-off home run is a home run that ends the game. It must be a home run that gives the home team the lead in the bottom of the final inning of the game — either the ninth inning, or any extra inning, or any other regularly scheduled final inning. as the host Lions (10-4, 3-0) completed a three-game sweep of San Diego (6-11, 0-3), the two-time defending West Coast Conference champion. --Texas A&M 8, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX 2: Ryan McCarthy was 2 for 4 and had two RBI for the host Bruins (11-5). |
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