Anteaters win again over UCR

UC Irvine senior Gregg Wallis went 4 for 5 Sunday to lead the

visiting Anteaters to an 8-5 Big West Conference baseball win over UC

Riverside at the Riverside Sports Complex.

The win gave UCI (18-16, 4-5 in the Big West), its first

conference series victory in three tries. The Anteaters rebounded

from a heartbreaking 3-2 loss Friday night in 10 innings to win the

final two games.

Wallis, who had six hits all season entering Saturday’s contest,

was 7 for 9 in the final two games.

Junior catcher Mark Wagner went 2 for 5 with three RBIs, including

his third home run of the season, while junior Tim Wojcik, in the

lineup in place of regular third baseman Matt Anderson, went 3 for 5

with an RBI ane one run scored.

Senior Steve Schroer allowed five earned runs and 10 hits in five

innings, but he outlasted UCR starter Daniel Stange to even his

record at 4-4.

Sophomore Gary Nakashima threw four shutout innings in relief,

allowing only two hits, to pick up the save.

UCR fell to 15-19, 1-5.

Anderson, a junior, did not start for the first time this season

Saturday. He had been the only Anteater to start each of the first 32

games. He started all 58 games last season as well and, including his

2002 freshman season (he redshirted in 2003), he had started the last

148 games the Anteaters have played with him on the active roster.

Anderson is hitting .312 with 19 RBIs and leads the team with 14

extra-base hits.

Big West Conference

UC Irvine 8, UC Riverside 5

Score by Innings

*--*

UCI 2 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 - 8 15 1

UCR 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 - 5 12 4

*--*

Schroer, Nakashima (6) and Wagner; Stange, Reifer (4), Shaw (6),

Glaggett (8) and Salotti. W -- Schroer, 4-4. L -- Stange, 0-1. Sv --

Nakashima (1). 2B -- Wallis (UCI), Wojcik (UCI), Salotti (UCR), Grant

(UCR). 3B -- Salotti (UCR). HR -- Wagner (UCI), Steinmeyr (UCR).