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Boatright, Dirtbags Beat CSUN 5-3
4/16/2005 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Boatright, Dirtbags Come Through in Win
LONG BEACH, CA-- Sean Boatright picked a good time to extend his hit streak to 15 games, fighting through a nine-pitch at-bat to leadoff the eighth with a single and come around and score the go-ahead run in leading No. 14-ranked Long Beach State (26-12, 7-1 Big West) to a 5-3 win over visiting CS Northridge (12-19-1, 0-8 Big West). It was the team's 10th series win of the year and eighth straight. After Boatright moved to second on a sacrifice, a walk to Jaime Huizar forced Peter Eberhardt from the game after 100 pitches. After a wild pitch by reliever Craig Baker put runners on second and third, Evan Longoria hit the ball to shortstop Alberto Quintana, who was not going to get Boatright coming home, but decided to throw anyway and threw over the head of catcher Adam Fleener to allow Huizar to come in and make it 5-3. Danny Mocny contributed two doubles on the day, going 2-for-4, while Chris Jones added another two hits. Eberhardt (3-2), CSUN's closer making his first start of the year, tossed 7.1 innings, giving up five runs on nine hits, before tiring in the eighth inning. Steve Hammond (1-3) who got a strikeout in the eighth and a flyball in the ninth, picked up his first win, while Neil Jamison got the final two batters for his 10th save. The Beach went up 3-0 in the third inning, batting around thanks to an RBI single from Chuck Sindlinger, an RBI double from Mocny and a sacrifice fly from Boatright. Eberhardt then scattered just three hits over the next four innings as CSUN came back to tie it. LBSU's Marco Estrada started the game on a roll, pitching a no-hitter through four innings and giving up just one hit and pitching to just one over the minimum over the first six innings. Estrada ended up tiring in the seventh, giving up three runs on four consecutive hits before exiting in a 3-3 tie. Estrada on the day gave up five runs on three hits over 6.2 innings, striking out a career-best 11. He struck out six of seven from the second through the fourth innings. The Dirtbags close out the series tomorrow at 1 p.m. LBSU remains in Southern California through Tuesday when they play at Loyola Marymount, before continuing conference play next weekend at Pacific. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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