University Southern California Trojans
Baseball Downs Washington, 13-6
June 21, 1999 | Baseball
May 14, 1999
LOS ANGELES - Junior LHP Barry Zito became only the third pitcher in the Pacific-10 Conference over the last 11 years to win all of his starts as the No. 16 USC baseball team outslugged Washington, 13-6, on Friday night at Dedeaux Field.
USC improved to 32-22 overall and 16-6 in the Pac-10, but remained two games behind Stanford with only two to play. Washington fell to 31-20, 11-11.
It wasn't one of Zito's best performances, but he improved to 11-2 overall and finished the conference season 8-0 in eight starts. USC's Seth Etherton went 10-0 in 1996, as did Arizona's Scott Erickson in 1989. Zito went 6 1/3 innings with nine strikeouts but gave up nine hits, two walks and six runs (four earned).
He was aided by a 13-hit attack, which featured three hits each from senior 2B Dominic Correa and freshman 3B Beau Craig. Craig hit his third home run of the season while junior C Eric Munson hit his 11th.
The game see-sawed back and forth through the early innings before USC took the lead for good in the bottom of the fifth. Tied 6-6, Munson singled, stole second, went to third on an error and scored on Craig's sacrifice fly to give the Trojans a one-run edge.
Zito and two USC relievers shut down the Huskies from there, and Correa had a two-run single, followed by a two-run home run by Craig, in the bottom of the sixth to extend USC's lead to 11-6.
One highlight for the Huskies was junior C Dominic Woody, who hit a two-run home run in the top of the first. It was his 17th of the season, setting a new school single-season record. Another highlight was a triple play that Washington turned in the third inning.
USC and Washington meet again on Saturday and Sunday, both at 1 p.m.
UW 202-020-000 --- 6-10-2
USC 031-214-20x --- 13-13-2
Anderson, Jahn (4), Massingale (6), Vanderplow (7), Daniels (7) and Woody.
Zito, Smyth (7), Immel (9) and Munson.
WP -- Zito (11-2) LP -- Jahn (1-2).
HR -- USC: Munson (11), Craig (3); UW: Woody (17), Stefonick (7).
