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sports
Wright
keys win for hot Dirtbags
Staff reports
Chris Wright went
three for three and drove in a key run to lead Long Beach
State to a 4-2 victory over UC Santa Barbara in a Big West
Conference baseball game Sunday at Blair Field.
Wright finished
the three-game series with nine hits in 11 at-bats and is
now batting .352 on the season.
Starter Jered Weaver
(5-2) and Nate Beucler combined to hold the Gauchos to one
earned run. Beucler, who was named Big West Pitcher of the
Week Monday, went the final four innings, holding the Gauchos
scoreless while striking out four to earn his first save of
the season.
The Dirtbags trailed,
2-1, when Wright hit a run-scoring fly ball in the fourth
that tied the game at 2-2. LBSU took the lead for good in
the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Paul McAnulty and a RBI single
from Brad Davis.
LBSU has won eight
of its last nine games and stands in first in the Big West
at 8-1, one game ahead of second-place Cal State Fullerton.
The Dirtbags are 23-10 overall. UCSB is 16-21 overall, 3-6
in the Big West.
The Dirtbags play
at the University of San Diego today at 2:30 p.m. before traveling
to Florida to take on national power Miami in a three-game
series starting Friday.
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