Anteaters’ bats wake up, club the Saints, 9-4
UC Irvine’s baseball team made it two straight at the University
of Santa Clara Saturday, posting a 9-4 nonconference victory.
After being limited to two runs on 12 hits en route to a 1-1
record, the Anteaters exploded with a 13-hit attack, with a three-run
burst in the second inning followed by a game-clearing five-run
fifth.
The Anteaters’ second inning saw Kyle Ryckebosch pick up an RBI on
his single to left, scoring Jordan Szabo, who led off with a single.
With the bases loaded and two outs, Matt Fisher and Jaime Martinez
were hit by a pitch in consecutive at bats, scoring Jeff Werhun and
Jon Horwitz to give the Anteaters a 3-0 lead.
UCI added five runs in the top of the fourth inning, four of which
were unearned, as the Broncos made two costly errors in the field.
Chris Klemm inflicted the most damage, picking up two RBIs on a
single to center field, scoring Fisher from third and Daniel
Miramontes from second, who reached on a throwing error by Thompson.
Santa Clara chipped away at the Anteaters’ lead in the the fourth
inning as freshman Eric Newton connected on his first career home run
with one out. The Broncos added two more runs in the fifth inning,
cutting the UCI lead to 8-4 as Shapiro picked up his second RBI of
the game on a groundout and Jason Matteucci picked up his first RBI
of the game with a single to left field.
Brett Smith picked up the win for UCI, throwing 5 1/3 innings in
which he allowed four runs on eight hits while walking four and
striking out three.
Steve Schroer picked up his first save this season by throwing the
final 3 2/3 innings in which he allowed only one hit.
Klemm paced the UCI offense with his two hits, two runs scored and
two RBI, followed by Szabo, Miramontes and Horwitz who had two hits
apiece.
UCI, 2-1, closes out the three-game series at Santa Clara today at
1 p.m.
Nonconference
UCI 9, Santa Clara 4
Score by Innings
UCI 030 500 010
-- 9 13 1
S.Clara 001 120 000
-- 4 9 2
Smith, Schroer (6) and Werhun; Redmond, Slorp (4),
Fillinger (5) and Wallace. W -- Smith, 1-0. L -- Redmond, 1-1. Sv --
Schroer (1). 2B -- Klemm (UCI), Guthrie (UCI), Ryckebosch (UCI),
Werhun (UCI), LaBarbera (SC), Diefenderfer (SC) 2, Headley (SC).
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