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Baseball:
No. 10 UC Irvine Wins Series Over Nevada
March 22, 2009
IRVINE, Calif. --- The UC Irvine offense recorded a season-high 19 hits as the No. 10 Anteaters captured a series win over Nevada with a 10-2 decision Sunday at Anteater Ballpark. Four Anteaters recorded three hits apiece and the team received a career outing by Crosby Slaught to improve to 12-6 overall. Ryan Fisher was 3 for 3 with an RBI and two runs scored while Eric Deragisch was 3 for 4 with three runs scored and an RBI. Freshman Ronnie Shaeffer was a triple shy of the cycle and recorded his first collegiate home run. Senior Ben Orloff went 3 for 3 in his first three at-bats and finished the day 3 for 5 with two runs scored and a run batted in while Casey Stevenson was 2 for 4 with two RBI. Slaught pitched a career-best 6.2 innings, striking out a personal-high seven batters and holding Nevada to two runs on seven hits while walking three. Matt Dufour fanned one in 1.1 shutout innings and Nick Hoover also struck out one in a perfect ninth.
The Anteaters jumped on Nevada in the second inning, bringing 10 batters to the plate. Fisher led off the inning with a triple and scored on Deragisch's single to right. Shaeffer jumped on a first offering from Derek Achelpohl for a two-run home run and give the Anteaters a 3-0 lead. UCI then strung together four consecutive singles with Orloff, Cusick and Fisher delivering RBI hits to complete the six-run inning.
Olson's sacrifice fly plated an Anteater run in the third and Francis Larson came up with a run-scoring single in the fourth. Stevenson's two-run double in the fifth would cap the scoring for UCI. Nevada's Travis Simas homered in the fifth to put the Wolf Pack on the board and Bret Hart singled to score Simas in the seventh. Hart and Matt Bowman led the team with two hits each. Achelpohl fell to 1-2 with the loss after giving up six runs on eight hits in 1.2 innings. |
