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UW Baseball Falls To Arizona, 5-2
May 26, 2002 | Baseball
May 26, 2002
SEATTLE - Arizona scored all five of its runs in the seventh inning and hung on to beat the Washington baseball team, 5-2, Sunday at Husky Ballpark on the final day of the regular season. The loss drops the Huskies into a tie for third-place with Arizona State in the final Pac-10 standings. The UW finished a game behind second-place Stanford and two back of conference champion USC.
Washington finished the year 15-9 in the Pac-10 and 30-25-1 overall. The 15-9 conference record marks the Huskies' best record and best placement since the Pac-10 unified its two divisions for the 1999 season. Arizona closed out the year 9-15 in the league and 31-24 overall.
The Huskies will find out Monday morning at 9:30 a.m. if they did well enough to make the 64-team NCAA tournament field. The selections will be announced on ESPN2, and Husky players and coaches will gather in the Don James Center at Husky Stadium to watch the selection show.
Arizona had been threatening all game before finally breaking out with the five- run seventh. A sacrifice fly from Pat Reilly plated the first run before a fielder's choice groundout from Brian Anderson drove in another. With freshman reliever Will Fenton (Kingston/North Kitsap) on to pitch for the UW, Arizona second baseman Moises Duran launched a three-run homer to left field to give the Cats a 5-1 lead.
The Huskies scored a run in the seventh, but left the bases loaded in the seventh and eighth innings and left two runners on in the ninth without scoring another run.
Arizona starter Jason Snyder faced only one batter as a line drive off the bat of Husky leadoff hitter Taylor Johnson (Vancouver/Skyview) hit him in the pitching arm. Chris Marini, who started in the outfield in the two games, came on in relief in his first career pitching appearance.
Marini held the Huskies scoreless until the fourth, when with one out, junior left fielder Tyler Davidson (Edmonds/Meadowdale) lined a home run down the left field line, his 13th of the season, to give Washington a 1-0 edge.
Arizona reliever Chris Goodman threw two innings for the win, allowing only one run to improve to 5-2 on the season. UW starter Clay Johnson (Elma), who had missed his last start with a minor shoulder injury, allowed three runs over six and one-third innings. He suffered the loss to fall to 2-2.
LINESCORE Pac-10 Conference Baseball Arizona 5, Washington 2 Arizona 000 000 500 -- 5 9 1 Washington 000 100 100 -- 2 11 1 Jason Snyder, Chris Marini (1), Chris Goodman (5), Tony Sulser (7), Brian Anderson (8) and Chris Cunningham. Clay Johnson, David Dowling (7), Will Fenton (7), Brian Carter (9), Tyler Shepple (9) and Aaron Hathaway. W - Goodman (5-2). L - Johnson (2-2). Sv - Anderson (4). 2B - UW, Taylor Johnson. HR - UA, Moises Duran (9); UW, Tyler Davidson (13). T - 3:18. A - 733.
