Monday, May 11, 1998
Beavers make clean sweep of UCLA’s year
BASEBALL: Bruins blown out by season-high hits, top pitching by
Oregon
By Kristina Wilcox
Daily Bruin Staff
Oh well.
The UCLA baseball team was swept over the weekend by Oregon
State, a squad hoping to take an at-large berth in the
regionals.
The Bruins (24-33), who lost all postseason chances a while ago,
were aiming to spoil the Beavers’ hopes, but the plan fell
through.
On Sunday, OSU wrapped up the regular season and the non-league
series with an 11-8 victory.
The Beavers rallied for seven runs against UCLA’s Tony Righetti
in the second inning.
The Bruins made the score 7-5 in the top of the third with
homers by Eric Byrnes, Nick Theodorou, and Chase Utley, who had two
on the day.
Eric Valent connected in the fifth for his 30th homer of the
season.
Saturday’s game was a blowout in Oregon State’s favor, 19-5.
The Beavers (35-14-1) got a season-high for hits (20) and a
great pitching performance from starter Brody Percell (5-4), who
kept UCLA’s bats quiet for eight innings.
The Beavers killed a rally in the top of the fifth inning by
turning a triple play around the horn on a sharp grounder by Jason
Green, cutting down Bill Scott and Cassidy Olson.
OSU won Friday’s close contest on Friday afternoon, 8-7, on Drew
Hedges’ RBI single in the bottom of the ninth. UCLA had tied the
score in the top of the inning on a Theodorou homer and a Green
grounder.
SUSIE MING HWA CHU
Senior Eric Byrnes take a major rip at a pitch during the final
homestand of his UCLA career.