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No. 19 UW Falls, 10-4, At No. 11 Texas A&M
February 25, 2005 | Baseball
Feb. 25, 2005
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - The 11th-ranked Texas A&M baseball team scored five runs in the first and coasted to a 10-4 win over 19th-ranked Washington Friday in the first game of the Dominos Pizza Aggie Baseball Classic at Olsen Field.
A home-opener record crowd of 7,669 fans were on hand to watch Aggies All-America pitcher Jason Meyer (3-0) pick up the win. The sophomore allowed one run on two hits while striking out nine in six innings. UW starter Kyle Parker (1-2) worked four innings, allowing five runs on five hits for the loss.
Texas A&M sent nine runners to the plate in the first. Six of them reached base and five scored. Leadoff hitter Cliff Pennington got it started, doubling before coming home on a pair of wild pitches. After a walk, Parker struck out the next two Aggie hitters. However, he walked the next three to force in A&M's second run.
After a bases-loaded wild pitch sent home a third run, left fielder Brandon Glover grounded a ball towards first for what looked like the third out. The ball, however, took a bad hop over the glove of UW first baseman Kyle Larsen for a single, allowing two more to score.
Washington put runners aboard in every inning until finally scoring in the fifth. The UW loaded the bases on a single, a walk and a hit batter before Larsen walked on a two-out, bases-loaded pitch to force home Nick Burnham.
A&M answered with a run in the bottom of the fifth as Ryan Hill singled and eventually crossed the plate on a John Infante sacrifice fly, increasing the Aggies' lead to 6-1. In the sixth, Austin Boggs singled to drive in one run and Hill drove in a second with a sacrifice fly, making it 8-1.
In the eighth, Parker Dalton's fourth single of the ninth came with the bases loaded to drive in two more Texas A&M runs.
Washington scored two more in the ninth when, with the bases loaded, Larsen grounded a ball to Pennington at shortstop. Pennington got the force at second, but his throw to first was wild, allowing a second runner to score.
UW senior Taylor Johnson, who went 2-for-3 at the plate, also came in to pitch the eighth inning, his first career mound appearance. He gave up a single, but used a double play to face the minimum in his first college inning. Nick Batkoski also had two hits for the Huskies while Larsen picked up two RBI.
The Huskies continued their six-game, four-day weekend with two games Saturday. At 8:00 a.m. Pacific time, the UW takes on San Diego. At 11 a.m., the Dawgs face Evansville. Live audio for both games is available at gohuskies.com
LINESCORE Dominos Pizza Aggie Baseball Classic #11 Texas A&M 10, Washington 4 Washington 000 010 012 -- 4 8 0 Texas A&M 500 012 20x -- 10 12 3 Kyle Parker, Richie Lentz (5), Matt Hague (7), Taylor Johnson (9) and Matt Lane, D.J. Neyens (8). Jason Meyer, Chance Corgan (7), Hart Hering (8), Keith Whalen (9) and Justin Pouk. W - Meyer (3-0). L - Parker (1-2). 2B - A&M, Cliff Pennington, John Infante. T - 3:04. A - 7,669.
