COLLEGE BASEBALL: YOUNG BRUINS GROW UP IN HURRY UCLA 10, LMU 9.Byline: Chris Cocoles Staff Writer Most visitors to New Orleans come home with heartburn heartburn, burning sensation beneath the breastbone, also called pyrosis. Heartburn does not indicate heart malfunction but results from nervous tension or overindulgence in food or drink. , needing a vacation to recover from their vacation. UCLA's baseball trip to New Orleans and the French Quarter was rejuvenating. The Bruins returned to L.A. not with stomachaches but more hunger. A 10-9 victory over visiting Loyola Marymount Tuesday at Jackie Robinson Stadium was UCLA's fourth win in five tries. Two of the victories came at then No. 12 Tulane, which welcomed a club that had lost six of seven. ``It was good medicine going on the road trip,'' 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 coach Gary Adams said. Bourbon Street was an unlikely path back to respectability for the Bruins (11-10), who inched over the .500 mark for the first time since Feb. 2 (2-1). After being swept by crosstown rival USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. two weekends ago, the Bruins pulled out a 12-7 win over UC Santa Barbara last Tuesday, sending a reeling team to New Orleans with a big boost of confidence. ``We thought the Santa Barbara game was a must win,'' Adams said. ``I don't know if the players thought that way. The coaches thought, ``We've got to win this game.''' It became clear the Bruins couldn't afford to let Tuesday's victory slip away. They squandered squan·der tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders 1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste. 2. an 8-1 lead when the Lions (5-12) scored seven times in the sixth. But left fielder Adam Berry's home run in the bottom of the inning Noun 1. bottom of the inning - the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat bottom inning, frame - (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat and a key insurance run in the eighth maintained the momentum the Bruins' snatched in New Orleans. UCLA is inexperienced and figured to suffer some growing pains. The entire starting infield is relatively new to the rigors of Division I baseball. --Notes: LMU LMU Ludwig Maximilians Universität (München) LMU Loyola Marymount University LMU Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) LMU Lincoln Memorial University LMU Location Measurement Unit continues its brutal early-season schedule with a three- game series at Mississippi State beginning Friday. Fourteen of the Lions' first 21 games are against 2001 NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Regional participants... Berry's home run was his eighth of the season and fifth in the last five games... LMU left fielder Kris Zacuto doubled twice, giving the senior 53 for his career. He ranks fifth on the all-time list. |
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