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Lane Blasts Huskies To 16-8 Win At Arizona
March 26, 2005 | Baseball
March 26, 2005
TUCSON, Ariz. - Catcher Matt Lane hit two home runs, a grand slam and a three-run shot, and drove in seven as the Washington baseball team salvaged a series split against No. 13 Arizona with a 16-8 win Saturday at Kindall Field.
Designated hitter Matt Hague, a reliever making his first start in the batting order, also hit two home runs, his first two college hits. The freshman from Kent finished 2-for-5 with two homers and five runs batted in.
Lane, a sophomore from Port Angeles, didn't start the game, but reported as a pinch hitter in the third inning, when he launched a grand slam to left-center field that gave Washington (14-10 overall, 1-2 in the Pac-10) a 6-1 lead at the time.
Arizona had closed the gap to 8-6 when Lane launched a three-run blast in the sixth inning.
UW junior reliever Keaton Everitt (1-0) worked the final five and two-thirds innings, allowing two runs on six hits for the win. Starter Matt Kasser lasted only three and one- third innings, allowing six runs on nine hits on a windy day in the desert.
Arizona freshman starter David Coulon (2-1) suffered the loss for the Wildcats (18-10, 2- 1 in Pac-10 play). Coulon, one of five pitchers for the U of A, allowed four runs on only two hits over two innings, but he walked four and hit three batters.
Washington fell behind 1-0 after the Wildcats scored a run in the second, but the UW stormed back with seven in the third. The Huskies tied the game on a bases-loaded single from freshman Matt Stevens. Hague followed with a bases-loaded walk to put the UW in front before Lane belted his grand slam, pinch hitting for freshman catcher Joey Dunn.
Arizona scored two in the third and four in the fourth to cut the lead to 7-6. After the Huskies added on in the fifth, Lane's three-run shot in the sixth accounted for the first three tallies in a four-run inning.
Hague, who has appeared in relief in nine games but had only one prior plate appearance, connected for a three-run homer in the seventh and then hit a solo shot in the ninth to close out the Huskies' scoring. Second baseman Mike Rundle added three hits for the UW.
The Huskies return to Seattle for their next seven games. Monday and Tuesday, the UW plays host to Utah Valley State. Monday's doubleheader starts at 3:00 p.m. and a single game on Tuesday begins at 1:00 p.m. Next Friday through Sunday, USC comes to Husky Ballpark for a three-game Pac-10 series.
LINESCORE Pac-10 Conference Washington 16, #13 Arizona 8 Washington 007 014 301 -- 16 15 0 Arizona 012 301 010 -- 8 15 3 Matt Kasser, Keaton Everitt (4) and Joey Dunn, Matt Lane (3). David Coulon, Sean Rierson (3), Mike Koons (6), Mike Baugh (7), Jason Seefeld (9) and Nick Hundley. W - Everitt (1-0). L - Coulon (2-1). 2B - UW, Mike Rundle, Nick Batkoski, Kyle Larsen; UA, Hundley 2, Jordan Brown. 3B - UW, Taylor Johnson; UA, Brown. HR - UW, Lane 2 (3), Matt Hague 2 (2). T - 3:47. A - 702.
