TUCSON – Arizona put up crooked numbers in four of the first five innings and scored 12 times in that span during a 14-2 series-clinching win over Washington on Saturday at Hi Corbett Field.
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The Wildcats (15-14, 4-7 Pac-12) scored three in the first inning, four in the third, two in the fourth, three in the fifth and two more in the eighth to send the Huskies (14-11, 5-6) to their sixth-straight defeat.
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For a second-consecutive day, the Huskies were put behind the eight-ball early after Arizona scored three runs off of starterÂ
Jordan Jones (2-3) in the first inning. They got their first run on an RBI single from Austin Wells and got two more on Dayton Dooney's second home run of the series.
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Dooney's homer was one of eight extra-base hits the Wildcats would have among their 14 total. They have now scored 23 runs in two games.
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The Huskies happily took advantage of a pair of wild pitches by Arizona starter Quinn Flanagan (4-1) to get their first run of the game in the third inning. Third basemanÂ
Nick Roberts singled – part of a two-hit day for the junior – advanced to second on a wild pitch, moved to third on ground out and came around to score when Flanagan spiked a pitch in the dirt. Unfortunately, 3-1, would be the closest the Huskies would get the rest of the way.
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Arizona would score the next six runs to break the game open with Cameron Cannon providing the big blow, a three-run double in the third when the game was still a two-run deficit for UW.
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Mason Cerrillo singled homeÂ
Jonathan Schiffer in the fifth to make the score 9-2, but Arizona would add on three runs in their half of the fifth and two more in the eighth.
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The Huskies will have to re-group quickly as they try to salvage the final game of the series on Sunday with their ace and Pac-12 strikeout leader,Â
Josh Burgmann (3-0, 1.54 ERA), taking the hill. First pitch is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. with all the action telecast on Pac-12 Arizona and on the Pac-12 streaming platform.
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