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Kohn Gets 10th Win As Huskies Beat OSU, 6-5
May 17, 2002 | Baseball
May 17, 2002
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Senior Shawn Kohn became the 11th pitcher in Washington baseball history to reach double-figure victories in a season Friday as the Huskies beat Oregon State, 6-5, at Coleman Field to open a three-game Pac-10 series.
The win kept the Huskies (12-7 Pac-10, 27-23-1 overall) in second place in the conference while Oregon State, which was swept last weekend at California, fell to 9-10 on the season and 30-19 overall with its fourth straight loss. OSU is fifth in the conference standings.
Kohn, a righty from Woodinville, allowed five runs on 10 hits while striking out five for the win, breaking a personal two-game losing streak to improve to 10-4. His 10 wins lead the Pac-10.
Nine other Husky pitchers have won 10 games in a season, most recently Jeff Heaverlo in 1999. The UW record for victories in a season is 11, set in 1997 by Jake Kringen. Kohn also threw his seventh complete game of the year, tops in the Pac-10 and most by a UW pitcher since 1987, when many games were only seven innings.
The Huskies posted a run in the first inning when shortstop Tila Reynolds (Renton/Liberty) doubled and scored on a single from freshman first baseman Kyle Larsen (Redmond/Eastlake), who finished with three hits in the game. Washington made it 2-0 in the top of the second when freshman catcher Aaron Hathaway (Vancouver/Columbia River) led off the inning with his third home run of the year. Hathaway went 2-for-4 in the game while Reynolds had three hits in five at bats.
The Beavers got on the board with a two-out rally in the fourth. Andy Jarvis, a classmate of Reynolds at Liberty High, reached on an error by Husky second baseman Greg Isaacson (Aberdeen). Left fielder Seth Pietsch followed with a double in the wall in left and Jarvis narrowly avoided the tag at the plate to score and cut the Husky lead to 2-1.
Washington increased its lead to 5-1 and chased OSU starter Ben Rowe with three runs in the sixth inning. John Otness (Tacoma/Wilson) and Isaacson drove in single runs with bases-loaded singles and a third runner came home when Taylor Johnson (Vancouver/Skyview) reached on an error by Rowe.
OSU came back with a run in the bottom of the sixth. Brian Barden led off with a single and then scored all the way from first when Jarvis dumped a double down the left-field line. But Kohn stranded Jarvis at second by striking out the next two OSU batters before a flyout to deep center ended the inning.
After Michael Done (Littleton, Colo.) drove in a run in the seventh to stretch the Husky lead to 6-2, Aaron Mathews and Will Hudson hit back-to-back, two-out doubles and Barden singled to drive in Hudson in the bottom of the seventh to draw the Beavers to a two-run deficit at 6-4.
In the bottom of the ninth, Hudson singled home Wick Udy to cut the lead Husky lead to the final score of 6-5 and Kohn hit Jarvis with a pitch to put runners at first and second with two outs, but Seth Pietsch popped out to shallow right to end the game.
Rowe (7-5) suffered the loss, allowing five runs on 10 hits over five and one- third innings. Hudson had three hits and two RBI to lead the Oregon State offense.
The Huskies and Beavers go at it again Saturday at 1:00 p.m. There's no radio coverage of the game in the Seattle area, but fans can listen to the OSU broadcast at osubeavers.com.
LINESCORE Pac-10 Conference Baseball Washington 6, Oregon State 5 Washington 110 003 100 -- 6 14 4 Oregon St. 000 101 201 -- 5 10 2 Shawn Kohn and Aaron Hathaway. Ben Rowe, Mike Ekstrom (6), Jake Postlewait (8), Ty Kline (9) and Paul Richie, Wick Udy (8). W - Kohn (10-4). L - Rowe (7-5). 2B - UW, Tila Reynolds, Tyler Davidson; OSU, Seth Pietsch, Andy Jarvis, Aaron Mathews, Will Hudson, Pat Stevens. HR - UW, Hathaway (3). T - 3:11. A - 1,374.
