USC finally clinched the league title on the last gameday, ending a two-game losing streak by beating Stanford in the finale. The Trojans ended up not necessarily needing the victory, as UCLA was upset by Oregon State, giving USC the title by a final margin of two games. The Trojans, Bruins and Arizona State were the only three teams to end with winning records. Final stats, league leaders and more to come…
Standings
14-4: USC
12-6: Arizona State, UCLA
9-9: California, Long Beach State
8-10: Oregon State
7-11: Arizona, Cal State Fullerton
6-12: Pepperdine, Stanford
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Arizona State 4, California 1: The Sun Devils’ Paul LoDuca hit a solo homer in the top of the first, while the Golden Bears’ Kevin Maas drove in the tying run with a double in the fourth inning. It stayed 1-1 until the eighth, when Reggie Jackson launched a three-run homer that decided the game.
ARIZONA STATE AB R H BI CALIFORNIA AB R H BI Dustin Pedroia 4 1 1 0 Jackie Jensen 4 0 2 0 Paul LoDuca 4 1 2 1 Marcus Semien 4 0 0 0 Barry Bonds 3 1 1 0 Conor Jackson 4 0 1 0 Reggie Jackson 4 1 1 3 Jeff Kent 4 0 1 0 Bob Horner 4 0 0 0 Mark Canha 4 0 0 0 Rick Monday 3 0 0 0 Geoff Blum 4 1 2 0 Alvin Davis 3 0 0 0 Kevin Maas 4 0 1 1 Oddibe McDowell 4 0 1 0 Darren Lewis 3 0 0 0 Willie Bloomquist 4 0 0 0 Bob Melvin 3 0 0 0 TOTALS 33 4 6 4 TOTALS 34 1 7 1 ARIZONA STATE 100 000 030 -- 4 CALIFORNIA 000 100 000 -- 1 LOB--ARIZONA STATE 5, CALIFORNIA 6. ERR--Willie Bloomquist, Paul LoDuca. 2B--Barry Bonds, Jeff Kent, Kevin Maas. HR--Reggie Jackson, Paul LoDuca. HBP--Rick Monday. ARIZONA STATE IP H R ER BB SO HR Larry Gura [W] 7.00 7 1 1 0 5 0 Sean Lowe 1.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lerrin LaGrow [S] 1.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 CALIFORNIA Andy Messersmith [L] 8.00 6 4 4 2 13 2 Tyler Walker 1.00 0 0 0 0 2 0
Arizona 8, Cal State Fullerton 0: The Wildcats’ Joe Magrane (five hits, five walks) repeatedly pitched out of trouble to get the shutout. Ron Hassey drove in a run in each of his four at-bats and finished 4-for-4. Hassey, Kevin Newman and John Moses hit solo home runs to account for Arizona’s final three runs.
CAL STATE FULLERTON AB R H BI ARIZONA AB R H BI Mark Kotsay 4 0 1 0 Kevin Newman 4 3 1 1 Justin Turner 3 0 0 0 John Moses 3 2 1 1 Phil Nevin 3 0 1 0 Terry Francona 5 1 2 1 Tim Wallach 4 0 3 0 Ron Hassey 4 2 4 4 Aaron Rowand 3 0 0 0 JT Snow 4 0 0 0 Jeremy Giambi 3 0 0 0 Hank Leiber 4 0 1 0 Khris Davis 4 0 0 0 Nick Hundley 4 0 2 1 Brent Mayne 4 0 0 0 Casey Candaele 4 0 1 0 Christian Colon 3 0 0 0 Jack Howell 4 0 1 0 TOTALS 31 0 5 0 TOTALS 36 8 13 8 CAL STATE FULLERTON 000 000 000 -- 0 ARIZONA 101 031 11x -- 8 LOB--CAL STATE FULLERTON 9, ARIZONA 7. ERR--Jeremy Giambi, Casey Candaele. 2B--Ron Hassey, Casey Candaele. HR--Kevin Newman, Ron Hassey, John Moses. CAL STATE FULLERTON IP H R ER BB SO HR Kirk Saarloos [L] 5.00 9 5 4 3 1 0 Chad Cordero 1.00 1 1 1 0 1 1 Chris Devenski 1.00 2 1 1 0 2 1 Vinnie Pestano 1.00 1 1 1 0 0 1 ARIZONA Joe Magrane [W] 9.00 5 0 0 5 4 0
Long Beach State 6, Pepperdine 5 (11 innings): The Waves’ Ryan Christenson hit a grand slam in the fourth inning to erase a 3-0 deficit. Pepperdine went up 5-4 in the seventh on a Eric Thames’ RBI double, but the Beach tied it in the bottom half of the frame on a Garrett Hampson homer. It stayed 5-5 until the bottom of the 11th, when Jason Giambi led off with a walk, went to second on a groundout, and scored on Terrmel Sledge’s walk-off double.
PEPPERDINE AB R H BI LONG BEACH STATE AB R H BI David Newhan 5 0 0 0 Troy Tulowitzki 5 0 1 0 Gail Hopkins 5 0 0 0 Matt Duffy 5 1 1 0 Chad Kreuter 3 1 1 0 Jason Giambi 4 1 0 0 Eric Thames 5 0 2 1 Evan Longoria 5 1 2 1 Rob Picciolo 4 1 3 0 Terrmel Sledge 5 0 1 1 Andy Stankiewicz 4 0 0 0 Jeff Liefer 4 1 1 2 Chase DArnaud 4 1 1 0 Jeff McNeil 4 0 0 0 Danny Garcia 5 1 0 0 Garrett Hampson 4 2 2 1 Ryan Christenson 5 1 1 4 Brad Davis 4 0 2 1 TOTALS 40 5 8 5 TOTALS 40 6 10 6 PEPPERDINE 000 400 100 00 -- 5 LONG BEACH STATE 030 001 100 01 -- 6 LOB--PEPPERDINE 7, LONG BEACH STATE 4. 2B--Eric Thames, Chad Kreuter, Garrett Hampson, Troy Tulowitzki, Terrmel Sledge. 3B--Evan Longoria. HR--Ryan Christenson, Jeff Liefer, Garrett Hampson. PEPPERDINE IP H R ER BB SO HR Randy Wolf 7.00 7 5 5 0 7 2 Steve Montgomery 1.00 1 0 0 0 1 0 Barry Enright 2.00 1 0 0 0 2 0 Doug Simons [L] 0.33 1 1 1 1 0 0 LONG BEACH STATE Vance Worley 5.00 5 4 4 4 3 1 Bryan Shaw 1.00 0 0 0 0 1 0 Jared Hughes 1.00 1 1 1 1 0 0 Randy Moffitt 1.00 0 0 0 0 1 0 Cesar Ramos 2.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 Shane Carle [W] 1.00 1 0 0 0 0 0
Oregon State 6, UCLA 3: The Beavers’ Drew Rasmussen kept the powerful Bruin offense at bay, and OSU took a 2-0 lead before UCLA’s Shane Mack hit a solo home run in the sixth inning. The Beavers got a three-run shot from Cole Gillespie in the seventh to make it 5-1. The Bruins countered with a two-run homer from Eric Karros in the eighth, but Oregon State’s Adley Rutschman added an insurance tally with his solo homer in the bottom of the eighth.
UCLA AB R H BI OREGON STATE AB R H BI Shane Mack 4 1 2 1 Steven Kwan 4 2 2 0 Brandon Crawford 5 0 1 0 Nick Madrigal 4 1 3 1 Jackie Robinson 3 1 0 0 Cole Gillespie 3 1 1 3 Eric Karros 4 1 1 2 Jacoby Ellsbury 3 0 0 0 Troy Glaus 3 0 1 0 Michael Conforto 4 0 1 0 Chase Utley 3 0 0 0 Adley Rutschman 4 1 1 1 Eric Byrnes 4 0 1 0 Steve Lyons 4 0 0 0 Dave Roberts 4 0 0 0 Wes Schulmerich 3 0 0 0 Todd Zeile 4 0 0 0 Darwin Barney 4 1 1 0 TOTALS 34 3 6 3 TOTALS 33 6 9 5 UCLA 000 001 020 -- 3 OREGON STATE 101 000 31x -- 6 LOB--UCLA 8, OREGON STATE 6. ERR--Jackie Robinson, Steve Lyons. 2B--Nick Madrigal, Michael Conforto. 3B--Eric Byrnes. HR--Shane Mack, Eric Karros, Adley Rutschman, Cole Gillespie. HBP--Troy Glaus. UCLA IP H R ER BB SO HR Gerrit Cole [L] 6.00 5 2 1 3 7 0 Pat Clements 1.00 3 3 3 0 0 1 Dave Schmidt 1.00 1 1 1 0 0 1 OREGON STATE Drew Rasmussen [W] 7.00 4 1 1 2 4 1 Mark McLemore 1.00 1 2 2 1 1 1 Josh Osich [S] 1.00 1 0 0 0 0 0
USC 4, Stanford 2: The Trojans got a two-run homer from Morgan Ensberg to start the scoring in the top of the fourth. Tom Seaver threw six scoreless innings before giving a game-tying two-run homer to Bob Boone in the seventh. Bret Boone and Fred Lynn hit back-to-back homers in the eighth inning to put USC back in front to stay.
USC AB R H BI STANFORD AB R H BI Jacque Jones 4 0 1 0 Jeffrey Hammonds 4 0 0 0 Bret Boone 4 1 2 1 Jody Gerut 3 0 1 0 Fred Lynn 4 1 2 1 Mike Aldrete 4 0 1 0 Mark McGwire 4 0 0 0 Stephen Piscotty 4 1 1 0 Geoff Jenkins 3 1 0 0 Bob Boone 4 1 1 2 Morgan Ensberg 4 1 1 2 Jed Lowrie 4 0 0 0 Jason Lane 4 0 0 0 Ed Sprague 4 0 2 0 Roy Smalley 4 0 1 0 Steve Buechele 4 0 1 0 Eric Munson 3 0 0 0 AJ Hinch 3 0 0 0 TOTALS 34 4 7 4 TOTALS 34 2 7 2 USC 000 200 020 -- 4 STANFORD 000 000 200 -- 2 LOB--USC 4, STANFORD 6. 2B--Roy Smalley, Ed Sprague, Jody Gerut, Steve Buechele. HR--Morgan Ensberg, Fred Lynn, Bret Boone, Bob Boone. USC IP H R ER BB SO HR Tom Seaver [W] 7.00 6 2 2 0 11 1 Seth Etherton 1.00 0 0 0 1 0 0 Ron Flores [S] 1.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 STANFORD Mike Mussina 7.00 5 2 2 1 6 1 Jeff Ballard [L] 1.00 2 2 2 0 0 2 Al Osuna 1.00 0 0 0 0 1 0
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