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Dirtbags win,
lose to Gauchos
Staff reports
Paul McAnulty and
Kevin Randel each homered, and Abe Albarez was again strong
on the mound as Long Beach State beat UC Santa Barbara, 8-5,
Friday before dropping a 13-6, 10-inning loss Saturday to
the Gauchos in the first two games of a three-game Big West
Conference baseball series at Blair Field.
In the victory Friday, The Gauchos scored two unearned runs
in the first inning to build a 2-0 lead. The Dirtbags came
back to cut the lead to 2-1 on a Jeremy Reed RBI groundout
in the third, and took the lead for good in the fourth by
scoring four runs, highlighted by a three-run blast from McAnulty.
Randel followed with a two-run shot in the fifth to push the
LBSU lead to 7-2. UCSB closed to within 8-5 in the ninth on
a two-run homer from Ryan Spilborghs, but could get no closer.
Alvarez, starting for the first time in 12 days, went 6 2/3
innings, giving up five hits and striking out nine to improve
to 8-1 on the season. Alvarez didn't give up an earned run,
dropping his ERA to 1.97, tops among Dirtbag starters.
Neil Jamison went the final two innings for LBSU to pick up
his second save of the season, and Randel, Nick Covarrubias
and Chris Wright finished with two hits each.
In Saturday's game, The Dirtbags fell behind, 5-1, but rallied
to tie the score by pushing across four runs in the eighth,
capped by a run-scoring single from Tim Hutting.
The Gauchos again took the lead by scoring once in the ninth
to make it 6-5, but LBSU cam back to tie the game a second
time. Reed, who was at third following a walk, steal and wild
pitch , scored when Covarrubias hit a single through a drawn-in
infield to send the game to extra innings.
The Dirtbags ran out of comebacks in the 10th, as UCSB scored
six unearned runs to close out the contest. The loss ended
LBSU's seven-game winning streak and was also its first conference
loss.
Wright led LBSU with four hits Saturday, and McAnulty had
three. Hutting and Brad Davis had two RBI each.
Heading into Sunday's
series finale, the Dirtbags had a 22-10 overall record, 7-1
in the Big West. UCSB was 16-20, 3-5.
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