Washington, Long Beach End Series With 3-3 Tie

Sunday, February 18

Long Beach, CA

1:00 PM

University of Washington

0-2-1

Long Beach State

2-0-1

Washington

Long Beach State

February 18, 2024 | Baseball

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LONG BEACH, Calif. – Washington and Long Beach State battled relentlessly for four and a half hours on Sunday at Blair Field but with a drop dead time set due to UW's return flight to Seattle, the two sides were forced to settle for a 3-3 tie.

Making his Husky debut, Middlebury College transfer Spencer Dessart impressed, allowing just two hits and one run with four strikeouts over five innings. From there, the former D3 standout turned things over to the bullpen.

Isaac Yeager got things started, tossing 3.2 scoreless. Josh Emanuels came on next, allowing a single run over 3.1 frames, while Gianluca Shinn went four complete with one run allowed and three strikeouts. True freshman Max Fraser made his debut in the 17^th before the game was called.

For the third straight game, UW struck first, loading the bases in the third inning and taking the lead on AJ Guerrero's sacrifice fly to right.

However, the Dirtbags got even in the bottom of the fourth, tying things up on Cole Santander's leadoff homer.

After a leadoff double in the eighth was wasted in the eighth, LBSU threatened to walk off in the ninth, putting two runners on with two out and forcing Emanuels out of the bullpen. The NCBWA Stopper of the Year candidate stepped up, fanning Adrian Lopez to send the game into extras.

Aiva Arquette's 11^th-inning RBI single regained the lead for the Huskies, but Emanuels ran into some tough luck in the home half as a bloop single off the end of the bat flared into center field to deadlock the score at two apiece.

After regaining the lead on a Jeter Ybarra RBI double in the 13^th, Long Beach once again struck back against the Huskies with a run-scoring two-bagger of their own, extending the game into the 14^th.

While both teams had chances over the preceding three-plus frames, neither were able to breakthrough to secure the winning run.

Washington returns to Seattle before heading to the Lone Star State next weekend, competing in the Kleberg Bank College Classic in Corpus Christi, Texas. The Huskies will face Pitt, host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Maryland. All three games will be streamed live on FloBaseball.

DAWG BITES
• Playing into the 17^th inning, Sunday's affair was the longest for Washington since at least 1992
• Despite not having recorded a base hit until the game reached extras, AJ Guerrero recorded a pair of knocks to extend his hitting streak to 17
• Entering Sunday's game with a career-long outing of 1.2 innings, Gianluca Shinn completed four full innings
• Three of Jeter Ybarra's five hits in 2024 have gone for extra bases
• The Huskies left 11 men on base, finishing the weekend with 28 LOB total

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