COLLEGE BASEBALL ROUNDUP: GORDON LEADS USC SWEEP.Byline: Daily News It took Spencer Gordon two years of being cut from the USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. baseball team to finally earn a spot on the roster last season. His persistence paid off for the Trojans in their 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 sweep of 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 . The Chaminade High of West Hills graduate hit the go-ahead home run to beat the Bruins 8-5 at 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. on Sunday. Gordon went 6 for 9 with two homers, six 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 and five runs scored for USC (18-17, 5-4) in the three-game series against UCLA. ``I hate accepting defeat,'' said Gordon, who had just 15 at-bats when he finally cracked the roster in 2002. After starting the first six games in left field this season, the junior shuffled in and out of the lineup. Joey Metropoulos and 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. also homered for the Trojans, who got solid relief - two runs, six strikeout in four innings - from winner Fraser Dizard (5-2). Chris Denove and Chris Jensen hit solo homers for UCLA (17-22, 3-6), which has lost six in a row. - Chris Cocoles --Pepperdine 5, Loyola Marymount 4: In Malibu, freshman David Uribes's two-out RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning gave Pepperdine (22-15, 8-7) a three-game sweep of Loyola Marymount (21-16, 12-3) in a West Coast Conference game. --Cal State Fullerton 13, Cal State Northridge 4: The host Matadors (8-32, 2-4) got home runs from John Voita, pinch-hitter Quinn Ciccarelli and Aaron McKenzie in the Big West Conference loss to the Titans (30-8, 5-1). |
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