University of Washington
Loyola Marymount
Huskies Sweep Lions With 11-5 Win
March 14, 2004 | Baseball
March 14, 2004
SEATTLE - The Washington baseball team completed a three-game sweep of Loyola Marymount Sunday, beating the Lions 11-5 at Husky Ballpark.
Washington improved to 10-4-1 on the year with the win while the Lions, who came to Seattle on a six-game win streak, return home 11-7 on the season. The Huskies out-scored LMU 27-9 over the three games and posted 37 hits to the Lions' 14.
Washington jumped on LMU starter Erik Reyes (1-1), scoring four runs in the first. After Brent Lillibridge walked to open the inning, Greg Isaacson singled and stole second to put runners at second and third. Catcher Aaron Hathaway followed by having his hard grounder hit the third base bag, driving in two with a double.
After an out, sophomore left fielder Zach Clem belted his fourth home run of the year and third in three games vs. LMU, staking the Huskies with a 4-0 lead.
UW freshman starter Richie Lentz had retired the first six LMU batters in order before the third, when he issued three walks to load the bases with one out. The Lions got a run when Joe Frazee drove in Jonathan Oller with a force out at second. Catcher Jonathan Higashi followed with a single to left to cut the Husky lead to 4-2, but Lentz got a strikeout to end the inning.
The Huskies added two more in the third. Hathaway waled and Zach Clem singled to put runners on the corners with one down. A balk sent Hathaway home and Clem scored on a single from freshman right fielder Matt Tucker.
After scoring a seventh run in fourth, the Huskies put the game away with four in the sixth, including a pair on a two-run single from senior third baseman John Otness.
In the meantime, after the three walks in the third, Lentz settled down, facing the minimum over the next three innings. He allowed a run in the seventh on an RBI double from Jonathan Oller and left the game having allowed four hits and three runs over seven innings. Lentz improved to 2-2 on the season.
In the ninth, UW reliever Trent Baysinger struck out the side, but the third victim, A.J. LaMonda, reached on third-strike passed ball. The next batter, Oller, homered to right to tack on two runs for the Lions. It was the first homer of the weekend by LMU while the Huskies hit eight balls out.
Oller led the LMU offense, going 2-for-3 with three runs batted in, a double and a home run. Washington got three hits from Isaacson and three RBI from Hathaway, who was 1-for-2. Clem, who went 7-for-12 in the series, was 2-for-4 with three runs and two RBI Sunday.
Reyes suffered the loss for the Lions, allowing six runs on six hits over three innings.
The Huskies travel to Pullman next weekend for a three-game, non-conference series against Washington State. The series was originally scheduled to be played in Pasco, but was moved to Pullman. After the three non-Pac-10 games vs. the Cougars, the UW stays on the east side of the state to face Gonzaga in a pair of games before opening the conference slate at Arizona State.
LINESCORE Washington 11, Loyola Marymount 5 LMU 002 000 102 -- 5 5 2 Washington 402 104 00x -- 11 12 0 Erik Reyes, Daniel Macias (4), Kevin Jenson (5), Jack Creighton (7) and Jonathan Higashi. Richie Lentz, Trent Baysinger (8) and Aaron Hathaway, Ben Johnson (8). W - Lentz (2-2). L - Reyes (1-1). 2B - LMU, James Cooper, Jonathan Oller; UW, Hathaway. LMU, Oller (1); HR - UW, Zach Clem (4). T - 2:42. A - 436. Records: LMU 11-7, UW 10-4-1.
