COLLEGE BASEBALL ROUNDUP: TROJANS' KENNEDY SILENCES ARIZONA.Byline: Daily News Sophomore Ian Kennedy struck out 14 batters in eight innings of work Friday as No. 21-ranked USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. defeated ninth-ranked Arizona, 13-0 in a Pacific-10 Conference game in Tuscon, Ariz. The win moved the Trojans (27-13, 9-4) one game behind Oregon State and Arizona (27-15, 10-3) for first place in the conference. Kennedy allowed just three hits and walked three against an Arizona team that entered the game batting .328. In five conference starts, Kennedy is 5-0 with a 1.72 ERA. He has recorded double digits in strikeouts in four of his last five outings. USC scored eight runs in the first six innings off starter John Meloan, who suffered his first loss as a starter after going 17-0 the past two seasons. Hector Estrella was 4 for 5 with three 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 Matt Cusick finished 3 for 6 for the Trojans. Teammate Darin Vieira hit his fourth homer of the season, a solo shot to center in the fifth. USC scored five runs in the ninth. The series continues today at 1:05 p.m. and concludes with a 12:30 p.m. start on Sunday. --Loyola Marymount 6, Pepperdine 4: Jeff Stevens, a junior right-hander, allowed two runs over eight innings of work for visiting Loyola Marymount (18-23, 8-10) in a victory over Pepperdine (26-15, 12-6) to open a three-game West Coast Conference series at 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. The Waves had 13 hits, including 12 singles, but were unable to come up with clutch hits as they suffered their fifth conference loss in their last seven games to fall 2 1/2 games behind West Division leader San Francisco (31-12, 15-4). The Lions jumped out to an early lead, scoring three runs in the first inning. Pepperdine came back in the bottom half of the first and loaded the bases. The Waves could only manage a run, however, on a Luke Salas sacrifice fly. Loyola Marymount increased its lead to 5-1 with a pair of runs in the fifth. The Waves countered with a run of their own 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 to make the score 5-2. The Lions added a run in the seventh for a 6-2 lead before the Waves scored twice in the bottom of the ninth. Pepperdine and LMU LMU Ludwig Maximilians Universität (München) LMU Loyola Marymount University LMU Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) LMU Lincoln Memorial University LMU Location Measurement Unit play at 3 p.m. today. --UC Irvine 12, CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge 5: UC Irvine (22-17, 5-5) scored four runs in the fourth to take a 6-2 lead and never looked back en route to winning the opening game of the Big West Conference series against visiting Cal State Northridge (14-24-1, 0-13 BWC BWC Biological Weapons Convention BWC Bureau of Workers Compensation BWC Best Workplaces for Commuters (EPA/DOT program promoting commuting efficiency) BWC Beauty Without Cruelty (skin care product company) ) at Anteater Ballpark. Starter Peter Eberhardt took the loss, allowing eight earned runs on 11 hits with three strikeouts in four-plus innings of work. Teammate Johnny Coit was the only Matador matador In bullfighting, the principal performer, who works the capes and attempts to dispatch the bull with a sword thrust between the shoulder blades. Most of the techniques used by modern matadors were established in the 1910s by Juan Belmonte (b. 1894–d. with two hits. --Cal 7, 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 1: Cal (28-18, 8-8) scored five runs in the eighth inning to defeat host UCLA (9-29, 0-19) at Jackie Robinson Stadium. Chris Jenson was 2 for 3 at the plate for the Bruins. Brett McMillan had an RBI. |
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