COLLEGE BASEBALL: PATRICK'S SINGLE LIFTS MATADORS.Byline: Daily News Kevin Patrick's single in the bottom of the 11th inning gave the host Cal State Northridge baseball team a 6-5 victory over UC Riverside on Tuesday afternoon. The Matadors (26-28) rallied for three runs in the ninth to tie the game 5-5 and force extra innings Noun 1. extra innings - overtime play until one team is ahead at the end of an inning; e.g. baseball extra time, overtime - playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie . In the 11th, Jason Gorman singled with one out, went to second on a wild pitch and scored on Patrick's hit. CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge right-hander Jim DeBiase, normally a starter, came in from the bullpen in the top of the 11th and got one out - a strikeout of Brian Emmons, who had four hits in the game - to pick up his team-leading ninth win of the season. DeBiase got the win, but left-hander Darryl Grant Darryl Grant (born November 22, 1959 in San Antonio, Texas) is a former professional American football player who played defensive tackle for eleven seasons for the Washington Redskins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL. He played college football for Rice University. had his best outing of the season in 3-2/3 innings of relief, striking out eight. UC Riverside (29-19) held CSUN without a hit until Dan Phillips singled with two outs in the fifth. The Matadors only had two hits in the first seven innings before getting three singles in a row and scoring two runs in the eighth. - Chris Branam In other college baseball College baseball is baseball as played on the intercollegiate level at institutions of higher education, predominantly in the United States. Compared to American football and basketball in the United States, college competition plays a less significant contribution to cultivating : USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. 5, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. St. 4: A dropped fly ball in the sixth inning allowed the Trojans to rally from a 3-1 deficit and beat the host Aztecs in a nonconference game. Jason Lane's fly ball bounced off outfielder Robert Womack's glove for a three-base error, allowing the winning run to score. Neither starting pitcher Pete Montrenes (USC) nor Mike Garber (SDSU SDSU San Diego State University SDSU South Dakota State University SDSU Standard Distribution Switching Unit SDSU Smds Dsu ) were around for the decision. Rik Currier won his fourth game, allowing two runs in four innings and striking out six after picking up for Montrenes in the second. The Trojans, ranked No. 16 by Collegiate Baseball, improved to 31-22, while the Aztecs dropped to 26-27. USC's Eric Munson had two hits, including a double, and scored twice in his second game back from a broken hand. Munson missed 21 games with the injury. Justin Lehr had a two-run single in a three-run third inning. The Trojans trailed 3-1 in the second after a home run by San Diego State's Brandon Rogers. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO CSUN's Kevin Patrick, whose 11th-inning single won the game, is pulled off the bag, allowing UC Riverside's Matt Teahan to slide safely. Tom Mendoza/Daily News |
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