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Baseball takes two of three in Pullman

By Staff & Wire
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday April 21, 2003

The Arizona baseball team knew a three-game sweep of Washington State last week would likely move them up in the Pacific-10 Conference rankings.

Though they came short of that goal in the series' final game on Saturday, the Wildcats (28-14, 7-5 Pac-10) still moved into a second-place tie with rival Arizona State with their third consecutive series win.

Arizona trails the first-place Stanford Cardinal by two games in the race for the Pac-10 title going into next weekend's visit to Palo Alto, Calif., for a three-game set.

In the series finale, which was played on Saturday rather than Sunday to allow the teams an Easter off, the Cougars pulled away from UA with seven runs in the third and fourth inning and survived a late Wildcat rally to salvage one win from the weekend, 12-8.

Junior Dallas Haught continued his weekend hot streak with a two-run homer in the seventh-inning surge that pulled Arizona within four. Freshmen Nick Hundley and Brad Boyer book ended Haught's dinger with a two-run and a solo homer, respectively.

Sophomore Jeff Van Houten hit his 11th round-tripper of the year in the second inning.

Freshman Kevin Guyette took the loss to fall to 2-3 on the season after allowing six earned runs on ten hits in 2.2 innings of work.

Senior Chris Goodman did not fare any better in one-third of an inning of relief, allowing three earned runs on two hits, though the oft-suspect Wildcat bullpen did get two innings of scoreless relief apiece from Wes Zlotoff and Pat Lawler.

WSU's Jonathan Fender went 5-for-5 on the day with two runs scored.

Friday's tilt allowed the UA bullpen to finally shake the monkey off its collective back, as the much-maligned group pulled out its first extra-inning win of the year in a 6-4 win.

With the Wildcats up 4-3 and one out in the bottom of the ninth, Washington State scored on a passed ball and it looked like it might be the beginning of another late-inning meltdown, but Mark Worrell (2-3) came on with a pair of runners on base and one out in the tenth and struck out two straight batters.

In the eleventh, Haught stepped to the plate and provided the heroics with a solo shot to left that put UA ahead for good.

The designated hitter spot provided most of the Wildcat offense, with starter Terrence Taylor collecting three hits, stealing three bases and scoring two runs before giving way to Haught.

Thursday's series opener was much the same for Arizona. After taking an early lead, the Wildcat pitching surrendered five runs in the sixth inning before a rain delay intervened.

Once the cloud parted, Arizona won the game, 11-9, in typical fashion.

Freshman Brad Boyer walked in the bottom of the ninth and then stole second to extend his team steals lead to 17, and then junior Brian Anderson singled him in with two outs to plate the game winning run.

With another run added to the lead for insurance, Zlotoff stepped in and closed the game out with a scoreless ninth.


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