BRUINS' OFFENSE CAN'T GET UNTRACKED MISSOURI 2, UCLA 1.Byline: HEATHER GRIPP Staff Writer MALIBU -- With UCLA's offense unable to get started during the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association baseball regionals, the Bruins season came to an end. Second-seeded 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 was eliminated with a 2-1 loss to No. 4 Missouri in a third-round elimination game Sunday at Pepperdine's Eddy D. Field Eddy D. Field is home of the Pepperdine University Waves' baseball team located in Malibu, California. It was originally built in 1973, but underwent renovations in 1980 and 1999. It now holds up to 2,000 spectators, all box seats. Stadium. Tigers freshman left-hander Rick Zagone held the Bruins to six hits with seven strikeouts in a complete-game outing. ``I'm just frustrated because I know we're better than we showed,'' UCLA senior outfielder Chris Jensen Chris Jensen (born October 28, 1963 in Fort St. John, British Columbia) is a retired NHLer. He played for the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers. External links Chris Jensen's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database said. ``I'll be the first guy to stand up and say I could have done more. It's just frustrating because we have good pitching and we just couldn't get any hits. We had a lot of chances to hit with two outs and get the ball rolling. We just couldn't get that one hit when we needed it.'' UCLA (33-25) stranded eight runners on base in each of its losses at the double-elimination event. The Bruins were a combined 0 for 9 with runners in scoring position In the sport of baseball, a baserunner is said to be in scoring position when he is on second or third base. The distinction between being on first base and second or third base is that a runner on first can usually only score if the batter hits an extra base hit, while a runner on . ``It was just a tough weekend for us,'' UCLA coach John Savage John Savage may refer to:
``I think you've seen as good a pitching as in any of the regionals. There's a ton of good arms.'' Junior-right hander Tyson Brummett (6-7) took the loss for the Bruins. He gave up five hits with six strikeouts and one walk in 6 2/3 innings. Missouri didn't need many hits to score either of its runs. The Tigers scored the deciding run in the seventh when Brock Bond led off being hit by a pitch, was sacrificed to second, advanced to third on a groundout, and scored on a single by Evan Frey. Bond had scored the tying run in the fifth inning on a balk balk the action of a horse when it refuses to obey a command to which it usually responds. See also jibbing. by Brummett. Blair Dunlap and freshman designated hitter designated hitter n. Baseball Abbr. DH A player designated at the start of a game to bat instead of the pitcher in the lineup. Noun 1. Cody Decker led UCLA with two hits each. Dunlap drove in the Bruins' lone run on a second-inning groundout that scored Tim Stewart, who opened the inning with a walk. UCLA, just a season after winning only 15 games, was trying to win a regional for the first time since 2000. ``Our goal was to go to Omaha,'' Savage said, referring to the site of the College World Series. ``That was our goal. Our players played, I think, the toughest schedule in the country. I don't think a lot of people would have won as many games as we did.'' heather.gripp@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: UCLA catcher Ryan Babineau holds on to the ball at home plate to tag out Missouri's Gary Amdt on Sunday. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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