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UC Riverside Beats USC, 10-6, In Midweek Action
May 03, 2011 | Baseball
May 3, 2011
LOS ANGELES - Trevor Hairgrove went 3-for-5 with a double and two RBI Tuesday while Dustin Emmons pitched 6 2/3 strong innings as the UC Riverside Highlanders beat the USC Trojans, 10-6, in a non-conference game at Dedeaux Field. Emmons allowed only two runs and four hits through the first six innings before running out of gas in the seventh.
Kyle Richter took the loss for USC (18-26) after giving up two runs (both solo home runs) in 3 2/3 innings with four hits, two walks and two strikeouts. Matt Foat was 2-for-4 with two RBI while Kevin Roundtree had a 2-for-5 night with one RBI.
Ryan Goetz battled Richter in the top of the first on a long at-bat and after fouling off several pitches on a full count, he slammed his second home run of the season with the solo shot to right. Roundtree singled to lead off the bottom of the first, later scoring the tying run on Foat's RBI single to left.
The Highlanders (23-15) took the lead for good when Bryan Horst belted a solo shot to left in the second for the 2-1 advantage. David Andriese's sacrifice fly made it 3-1 in the fifth, but the Trojans tallied a run in the sixth on Alex Sherrod's single. With runners at first and third, Emmons got Adam Landecker to ground into the third out with the putout at second.
Hairgrove doubled to lead off the seventh, later scoring on a wild pitch from reliever Ben Mount. Tony Nix tripled home Goetz and Andriese made it a three-run inning for the Highlanders with a sacrifice fly. USC responded with three in the bottom half of the seventh with RBI singles from Shane Boras and Roundtree and a sacrifice fly from Foat, but Mark Garcia struck out Alex Sherrod for the third out. UCR put the game away with four runs in the eighth off Brandon Garcia, including a two-run single from Justin Shults.
USC will not play again until Friday (May 13) when the Trojans host Arizona State in a Pac-10 Conference series. Friday's game will start at 6 p.m. with a 2 p.m. start on Saturday (May 14) and 1 p.m. start on Sunday (May 15). All three games of the ASU series will be broadcast live, along with Gametracker stats, on usctrojans.com.
Notes: UC Riverside snapped a seven-game losing streak in the series against USC, recording its first win since 2007...Joe De Pinto has a season-high five-game hitting streak after going 1-for-4 tonight...Ricky Oropesa has reached base safely in 11 straight games, two away from his season best of 13 games.
UCR 110-010-340---10-13-0USC 100-001-301---6-9-0
WP - Emmons (5-2) LP - Richter (2-2)T - 2:38 ATT - 126Records: UC Riverside (23-15), USC (18-26)
Emmons, M. Garcia (7), Wolford (8) and Stepanovich.Richter, Munson (4), Mount (7), B. Garcia (8), Wheatley (8), Cabral (9) and Roundtree.
