March 7, 2017
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| Klein Family Field | Stockton, Calif. | 178 | |
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STOCKTON, Calif. ââ'¬" Penn State stranded 10 base runners as three Pacific pitchers combined to limit the Nittany Lions to one run for a 6-1 Tiger victory in non-conference baseball action Monday night on Klein Family Field.
LHP Ricky Reynoso (1-2) held Penn State (4-6) in check through the first 5 2/3 innings, allowing just two hits and three walks with five strikeouts to earn the win for Pacific (5-5). RHP Cooper Casad was perfect 1 1/3 innings with three strikeouts and RHP Vince Arobio (2) pitched the final two innings for the save, also striking out three.
Penn State's lone hits in the first eight innings came from right fielder Jordan Bowersox (Winter Springs, Fla.), who led the game off with a single to extend his hitting streak to seven, and second baseman Conlin Hughes (Holly Springs, N.C.), who doubled in the fourth to extend his hitting streak to nine. Bowersox added an RBI-single in the ninth to finish the game batting 2-for-4 for his fifth multi-hit game of the season. Centerfielder Mason Nadeau (Lansdale, Pa.) also recorded a ninth-inning hit to extend his hitting streak to seven, while catcher Brett Davis (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) tallied his first career hit.
Both teams managed just two hits in the first half of the game, but Pacific's were timely in the second inning. With two outs, catcher James Free singled and then shortstop Matt Tarantino doubled off the wall in left to score him.
Tarantino led Pacific batting 3-for-4 with two RBIs.
Penn State stranded two runners each in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, unable to take advantage of Hughes' double, three walks and two errors. The Nittany Lions had runners on the corners in the fourth, but a diving catch on a ball hit by Nadeau to shallow left by left fielder Ryan Robards ended the inning and prevented a run from scoring.
Freebies cost Penn State in the bottom of the sixth as a walk and error on a potential inning-ending double play ball allowed Tarantino to step to the plate with two outs and deliver with a base hit to right center. Second baseman Nick Iwasa added an infield single to score another run.
Pacific put the game out of reach with a three-run eighth. A one-out sacrifice fly by Iwasa started the scoring, and then with two outs, third baseman Kevin Sandri hit an RBI-single to center and Robards singled through the right side to score one more.
RHP Myles Gayman (0-1) suffered the loss allowing the first run on two hits and two walks with three strikeouts in three innings pitched.
Penn State will have Tuesday off before playing games the next four days. The stretch begins with a 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 ET game at UC Davis and continues Thursday with the first of three games at Sacramento State.