COLLEGE BASEBALL: TROJANS SPOIL COACH'S RETURN USC 11, UCLA 1.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer Former USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. baseball assistant John Savage's return to Dedeaux Field Dedeaux Field is a college baseball stadium in Los Angeles, California, and the home field of the University of Southern California Trojans baseball team. The stadium holds 2,500 people and was built in 1974, the year USC won its record fifth consecutive College World Series title. was not a welcome one. In his first game against the Trojans as head coach of rival 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 , Savage was greeted Friday with an early deficit and a controversial play that prompted USC to play the game under protest, as USC won the Pacific-10 Conference The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I. Membership Full members game 11-1. The loss was the 15th in a row for UCLA (7-19, 0-4). USC (19-9, 4-3) also had a streak extended when Jeff Clement Jeffrey B. Clement is a catcher who is currently in the Mariners farm system, and was called up to the Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers on June 21, 2006. Clement was the Mariners' first round draft pick (third overall) in the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft. hit a three-run home in the eighth inning to give him hits in 13 consecutive games. The contest was delayed after the first inning as USC coach Mike Gillespie There are 3 sports coaches with the name Mike Gillespie:
USC hitters didn't leave anything to protest about in the second inning. The first four batters of the inning reached base before a three-run double by Blake Sharpe provided a 4-0 lead. A two-run home run by Darin Vieira - the junior's first of the season - extended USC's lead to 6-0 in the sixth inning. Sharpe and Vieira both finished with two hits and a combined seven 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 . UCLA's Brett McMillian ended the shutout with a two-out solo home run in the seventh inning. An inning earlier, the Bruins stranded a runner at third for the second time. Two errors on one play put Josh Roenicke on third with no outs in the sixth, but the next three UCLA batters went down in order. USC starter Jack Spradlin (3-1) retired nine of the first 10 batters he faced. A second-inning walk to Hector Ambriz provided the Bruins' lone baserunner until a leadoff single by Tommy Lansdon in the fourth inning. Spradlin held UCLA to four hits in eight innings. UCLA starter Brian Schroeder (0-3) allowed four runs on five hits and four walks with four strikeouts in five innings. The three-game series continues today at 2 p.m. when Ambriz starts against Trojans ace Ian Kennedy. Heather Gripp, (818) 713-3607 heather.gripp(at)dailynews.com |
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