Anteaters chew up Huskies, 8-3

* COLLEGE: The UC Irvine baseball team snapped Washington’s 11-game

win streak with a 8-3 victory to even the series at a game apiece,

Saturday night at Anteater Ballpark.

UCI freshman catcher Mark Wagner drove in UCI’s first run with a

double to score Chris Klemm in the bottom of the first. Washington

designated hitter Chad Boudon’s leadoff home run tied the game in the

second, but the Anteaters answered with a three-run second and a

two-run third, staking starting pitcher Brett Smith to a 6-1 lead.

After giving up the home run, Smith retired the next 10 batters,

before Aaron Hathaway would get a single in the top of the fifth.

The Huskies scored twice in the top of the seventh, getting a run

on a UCI error and a sacrifice fly by Justin Drake.

The Anteaters answered again in their half of the seventh on

Washington’s fifth error of the game and a wild pitch by reliever

David Dowling.

The Huskies threatened in the ninth leading off with a single and

a walk, but reliever Michael Koehler got the next three in order to

close the door.

Smith (4.63) earned a team-high fifth win (5-1) as the Anteaters

improved to 10-15 overall. Washington starting pitcher Jeff Petersen

fell to 1-2 after yielding six runs on seven hits in three innings of

work. With the loss, Washington falls to 15-7 overall.

The two teams meet in the series finale today at 1 p.m. at

Anteater Ballpark.

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Nonconference

UCI 8, Washington 3

Score by Innings

U.ofW 010 000 200 -- 3 7 6

UCI 132 000 20x -- 8 10 3

Petersen, Dowling (4), Baysinger (8) and

Hathaway; Smith, Tripoli (7), Koehler

(9) and Wagner. W -- Smith, 5-1. L --

Petersen, 1-2. 2B -- Ryckebosch (UCI),

Wagner (UCI) 2, Horwitz (UCI). 3B --

Klemm (UCI). HR -- Boudon (W)

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Coast unravels in 11-5 loss to Golden West

* JC: Golden West College’s leadoff hitter Matt Cooper gave host

Orange Coast fits all day, going 4 for 5 with three runs scored and

one RBI in an 11-5 win Saturday in Orange Empire Conference baseball

action.

The Rustlers scored eight times in the final four innings after

Coast (12-10-1, 4-6 in the OEC) tied the game, 3-3, in the bottom of

the fourth inning. The Pirates’ only lead came at 2-1 following three

innings.

James McDonald pitched 7 2/3 innings, allowing just one earned run

on eight hits with six strikeouts for the Rustlers. The Pirates got

to reliever Ricky Steik for two runs in the eighth inning, but he got

out of a bases-loaded jam to pick up the save.

Ben Hannah (3 for 5 with one RBI) was the only Coast player to

collect more than one hit. Both teams combined to leave 23 runners on

base.

Tyler Shaffer, Greg Benoit, Dustin Hicks, Collin Stiltz and Micah

Bazen all collected singles for Coast. Bazen scored two runs while

Shaffer, Benoit and Hicks all crossed the plate once for the Bucs.

Hannah was the only Coast player to record an RBI Saturday.

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Orange Empire Conference

Golden West 11, Orange Coast5 Score by Innings

GW 100 201 124 -- 11 13 3

OCC 002 100 020 -- 5 6 2

McDonald, McKernan (8), Steik (8) and

Hill and Vanderhook; Murdy, Farias (6),

Johnson (8) and Hicks. W -- McDonald. L

-- Murdy, 2-3. S -- Steik. 2B --

Mozelski (G), Eastman (OCC), Brown (G),

Smith (G)

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Peterson, Hunter solid in Mesa’s 8-2 win

* HIGH SCHOOL: Costa Mesa High senior Nate Hunter and junior

Gary Gonzalez both went 2 for 3 to help lead the Mustangs’ baseball

team to an 8-2 victory over Santa Ana Valley in a consolation game of

the Newport Elks Tournament at Costa Mesa Saturday.

Gonzalez also scored two runs, while Hunter earned an RBI. Junior

pitcher Justin Peterson improved to 2-0 on the season by striking out

seven, scattering five hits and allowing one run in five innings.

Senior Adam Beltran collected his first save of the season to help

Mesa improve to 4-2. Santa Ana Valley dropped to 3-3.

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Newport Elks Tournament Consolation game

Costa Mesa 8, SA Valley 2

Score by Innings

Santa Ana V 010 000 1 -- 2 8 3

Costa Mesa 200 114 x -- 8 7 2

Medina, Najera (6), Esparza (6) and

Vasquez; Peterson, Beltran (6) and Hunter.

W -- Peterson, 2-0. L -- Medina. Sv --

Beltran (1). 2B -- Villasenor (SAV),

Gonzalez (CM), Waldron (CM). 3B -- Hunter

(CM)

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Newport Harbor falls, 3-1, to Ocean View * HIGH SCHOOL: Ryan Torrey led off the fourth inning with a

double and scored on an RBI single by Ryan Rowe, but that would be

all the runs for Newport Harbor High’s baseball team Saturday in a

3-1 defeat to host Ocean View in the fifth and final game for both

teams in the Newport Elks Tournament.

Joe Cantarella went the distance on the hill for Newport,

scattering just four hits while striking out four. His counterpart,

Philip Hann, also went all seven innings and recorded six strikeouts.

Ocean View began the second with a single and double. The Seahawks

would push two runs across in the inning, one on a squeeze play, said

Newport Coach Joel Desguin.

Rowe, Torrey, Jeff Sanchez and Karo Makserjian all had hits for

Newport (2-6).

“We had runners on but just couldn’t get the hits to fall when we

needed to,” Desguin said.

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Newport Elks Tournament Consolation

Ocean View 3, Newport Harbor 1

Score by Innings

Newport 000 100 0 - 1 4 0

Ocean View 120 000 x - 3 4 1

Cantarella and Sanchez; Hann and LoCoco. W

-- Hann, L -- Cantarella, 1-2. 2B -- Torrey

(N), Hann (O), Walsh (O)

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