Sabtu, 18 Februari 2012

UC-Irvine Beats Southern 5-1 in College Baseball Action

By Robert H KellyCopyright 2012 TexSport Publications

HOUSTON, TEXAS (February 18, 2012) The University ofCalifornia Irvine upped its season record to 2-0 with a 5-1 drumming ofSouthern University in a Saturday game at the 2012 Urban Invitational atHouston’s Minute Maid Park.

The Anteaters capitalized on three fielding errors by the Jaguarsto score two runs in both the 4th and 6th innings and asingle run in the 8th.

Irvine third baseman Tommy Reyes led the Anteaters with oneruns on two hits, two RBI and two walks.

Left fielder Kris Paulino went 1-for-2, scoring two runswith second baseman Dillon Moyer also scoring a run.

The Jaguars managed only three hits in the match to go withthe single run.

Kyle Hooper, pitching four innings in relief, gave up asingle hit, no runs while walking two. He was credited with the win.

On the other hand, starter Jose De Leon pitched 3.2 innings,gave up two runs on five hits.

Daniel Garcia and Santos Saldivar pitched in a combined 5.1innings of relief allowing three runs on four hits and walked three.

Fielding was definitely a problem for the 1-1 Jaguars withthird baseman Cameron McGriff, catcher Clint Ourso, and pitcher Daniel Garciaall committing errors.

UC-Irvine will next face Texas Southern on Sunday with a revisedstart time of 10:00am.

Southern will play Alabama State immediately after theIrvine-Southern game.

All games on Sunday have been reassigned to Minute Maid Parkdue to the inclement weather in the Houston area.

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