Beach Win Marathon in 14

Sunday, April 29

Stockton, Calif.

1:00 PM

Long Beach State University

27-14, 0

Pacific

10-34-1, 0

Long Beach State

Pacific

4/29/2007 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

Marathon Wins After 14 Innings
Corder Drives in Five; Mittelsteadt and Peterson Have Five Hits A Pice

April 29, 2007

BOX SCORE

STOCKTON, CA-- It took a five-run 14th inning, but after five hours and 45 minutes, No. 26-ranked Long Beach State (27-14, 7-2 Big West) a 14-9 sweep of host Pacific (10-34-1, 0-12 Big West). LBSU had rallied for three runs in the 13th, only to be countered with three runs by the Tigers. Daniel Wolford (1-1) got the win, pitching the final inning and one third, while Isaac Kamai (0-1), the fifth of six pitchers for UOP, got the loss.

Jason Corder drove in five runs, including four over the last two innings as LBSU tallied 22 hits and gave up 18 hits to UOP. They combined to leave 29 runners on base.

Jake Wild, who had pitched five scoreless innings prior to the 13th, gave up three runs in the inning, as Danny Espinosa's RBI double was followed by a two-run double by Corder to make it 9-6. TJ Mittelstaedt began the inning with a leadoff double, his fourth hit of the day and finished with five. Espinosa added three, while

For the second-straight day, Shane Peterson extended his hit streak with a home run in his first at-bat, as his streak now stands at 17 games. Peterson had a five-hit afternoon and drove in three as well. He also was intentionally walked twice in extra innings, scoring in the 13th.

Dustin Rasco went a career-best three innings of scoreless relief, sending the game into the 11th. Bryan Shaw then tired in the 13th, giving up three runs as UOP tied it at 9-9, after pitching two scoreless innings.

After Friday's loser David Rowse pitched two perfect innings of relief with a 6-4 lead, in the eighth he gave up three-straight hits, led off by Peterson, before Wild gave up back-to-back sacrifice flies to tie the game at 6-6.

Freshman David Flaherty, who had just eight at-bats, hit his first two collegiate homers off of reliever Manny McElroy, solo shots in the fourth and sixth innings to give UOP a 6-4 lead. McElroy, who combined on a three-hit shutout on Tuesday, went four and one-third innings, giving up just those two runs on seven hits.

Omar Arif was chased from the game in the second as a throwing error by shortstop Danny Espinosa allowed the first two runs to score, before a two-run double by Joe Oliveira made it 4-1, yielding to McElroy. Hunter Carnevale left after five innings, giving up four runs on seven hits, as he turned it over to the bullpen with a 5-4 lead for Pacific.

The Dirtbags return home to host Cal Poly for a three-game series starting on Friday at 6:30 p.m.