BASEBALL: USC WINS SHARE OF TITLE USC 16, UCLA 10.Byline: Chris Cocoles Staff Writer USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. doesn't expect much assistance from Arizona and Washington State this weekend. The Pacific-10 Conference-leading Trojans carried a sweep-or-else mentality across town to 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 . ``If we were going to do it,'' USC coach Mike Gillespie There are 3 sports coaches with the name Mike Gillespie:
With the teams chasing them winning for a second consecutive day, the No. 21 Trojans survived the pesky Bruins again to win 16-10 in front of 1,243 at Jackie Robinson Noun 1. Jackie Robinson - United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972) Jack Roosevelt Robinson, Robinson Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Needing almost every swing of a four-homer, 13-hit offense to fend off UCLA (26-34, 9-14), USC (33-22, 16-7) clinched at least a share of the Pac-10 title for the second year in a row. But earning an automatic bid to the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Regional probably will require winning the regular-season finale at 1 p.m. today. Stanford (11-3 over Washington State) and Washington (8-3 over Arizona) stayed a game back at 15-8. Stanford has the tiebreaker tie·break·er n. An additional contest or period of play designed to establish a winner among tied contestants. Also called tiebreak. tie over the Trojans but Washington does not. Either way, USC wants an undisputed Pac-10 championship, which should enhance its chances of hosting a regional and/or obtaining a No. 1 seed. ``We know that we have to sweep,'' said shortstop Michael Moon Michael Moon is an American literary academic, formerly a professor in the English department at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, United States. He currently works in interdisciplinary studies at Emory University. He previously taught at Duke University. , who hit a two-run homer and drove in four runs for USC. ``We won two big ones and we know that we're Pac-10 champs. It's just not going to be the same if we have to share it. It'd kill the weekend.'' UCLA almost tarnished the Trojans' Memorial Day weekend getaway twice, but USC won a 5-4 thriller in 12 innings Friday and had to answer repeated Bruins rallies Saturday. The four homers, hit by Moon, Bill Peavey, Joey Metropolis and Brian Bare, was a season high. But USC also had productive at-bats that weren't so glamorous. Moon hit two sacrifice flies and Chris Ox put down a crucial squeeze bunt to score another run. ``If you look back a couple weeks ago, we lost our key bunts, key everything,'' said Bare, a senior who had three hits and three runs scored. ``Our execution wasn't there. If you execute, you're going to get key hits after. I think it's huge to have a guy like Ox on the team who bunts and gets it done.'' The sixth-place Bruins clearly aren't giving in. Not when one victory guarantees UCLA of clinching the prestigious Plexus Plexus - A modular World-Wide Web server written in Perl by Tony Sanders <sanders@earth.com>. Comes with interfaces to allow many other information services to be served via the Web. Version 3.0m 1994-07-22. Gauntlet all-sports trophy in this final showdown between the rivals. USC expected nothing less from UCLA knowing Stanford and Washington are eliminating any margin for error by closing in on sweeps of their own. ``We lose one and then we tie,'' Bare said. ``We don't want to tie for the Pac-10 title.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: MICHAEL MOON The USC shortstop drove in four runs in the Trojans' victory Saturday over UCLA. |
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