COLLEGE BASEBALL ROUNDUP: USC BOOSTS TOURNEY HOPES.Byline: Daily News With an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament fluctuating with each result, the USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. baseball team defeated Washington State 9-1 in a Pacific-10 Conference game at Dedeaux Field on Sunday. The victory means USC (28-24, 11-10) needs one win to be guaranteed a record above .500, which could be enough when the 64-team NCAA Tournament field is announced next Monday. The Trojans should benefit from their tough schedule, ranked No. 2 in the nation, and a No. 27 RPI RPI - Rockwell Protocol Interface . USC concludes the regular season with a game at Fresno State on Tuesday and a three-game series at Washington next weekend. The four-hitter for Brian Bannister (6-5) was the first complete game of his career. Joey Metropoulos (4 for 5, two 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 ), Anthony Lunetta (homer, three RBI) and Michael Moon (3 for 4, two RBI, two runs) led the Trojans offensively. ``We're right on the edge,'' Bannister said. ``We know we've got to go up to Washington and win.'' - Chris Cocoles --Stanford 9, 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 8: Stanford's (38-15) Dony Lucy hit a walk-off home run In baseball, a walk-off home run is a home run that ends the game. It must be a home run that gives the home team the lead in the bottom of the final inning of the game — either the ninth inning, or any extra inning, or any other regularly scheduled final inning. in the bottom of the 10th inning, as the visiting Bruins (26-30) blew an 8-5 lead in a Pac-10 Conference game. --Cal State Northridge 5, Pacific 3: In a Big West Conference game, Leo Rosales threw his fourth complete game, striking out 10, as the host Matadors (14-42, 8-14) defeated Pacific (27-27, 6-15) in the season finale. --LMU 15, Portland 9: Joe Frazee had three hits, four runs scored and two RBI as host LMU LMU Ludwig Maximilians Universität (München) LMU Loyola Marymount University LMU Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) LMU Lincoln Memorial University LMU Location Measurement Unit (26-30, 13-17) won its season finale in a West Coast Conference game. --Gonzaga 9, Pepperdine 8: Visiting Pepperdine gave up a two-run home run to Gonzaga's Kemp Quakenbush to break a 7-7 tie in the bottom of the seventh inning in a West Coast Conference game. Pepperdine (35-21) will host San Diego at 3 p.m. Friday in the conference championship series. |
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