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Long Beach State Earns 7-1 Win Against USC
April 26, 2011 | Baseball
April 26, 2011
LOS ANGELES - Matt Hibbert went 4-for-5 Tuesday while five pitchers combined to throw seven scoreless innings in relief as the Long Beach State Dirtbags defeated the USC Trojans, 7-1, in a non-conference game at Dedeaux Field.
Matt Underwood earned the win for Long Beach State (20-18) with two scoreless innings as the Dirtbags scored four runs in the fifth as USC (18-22) committed three errors in the game.
Kevin Roundtree led off the USC first with a walk and scored on Joe De Pinto's double to right before the Dirtbags scored seven unanswered runs. Long Beach State had a runner at third with two outs in the first and second innings, but could not bring the runner home. The Dirtbags finally scored in the fourth after Brandon Garcia (2-3) threw a wild pitch that scored Matt Duffy from third to tie it at 1-1.
Kirk Singer and Hibbert singled in the top of the fifth to put runners at the corners with no outs. Jeff McNeil brought Singer home with a sacrifice fly for the 2-1 lead. Ino Patron hit a chopper to first, but Ricky Oropesa's throw to second to begin a double play was wide of second base as another run scored. Garcia's errant pickoff attempt at first allowed another run to score. With Mike Marjama now at second, Brennan Metzger hit an infield single. Marjama made a hustle play as Oropesa's throw to the plate was late with the Dirtbags in command with the 5-1 advantage.
Long Beach State added a run in the sixth and seventh innings as the Dirtbag bullpen combined to allow only two hits with no walks and six strikeouts.
USC travels to Arizona for a Pac-10 Conference series, Friday-Sunday (April 29-May 1). Friday and Saturday's games will start at 6 p.m. with a noon start on Sunday. All three games will be broadcast live on usctrojans.com.
LBSU 000-141-100---7-10-0USC 100-000-000---1-5-3
WP - Underwood (2-0) LP - Garcia (2-3)T - 2:52 ATT - 289Records: Long Beach State (20-18), USC (18-22)
Boyle, Underwood (3), Stassi (5), Maciel (7), Frye (8), Magallon (9) and Marjama, Murai (8).Richter, Garcia (4), Mezger (5), McCaffery (7), Wheatley (8), Cabral (9) and Roundtree, Hernandez (5).
