Gonzaga University
Washington
Bulldogs Drop Game Two To Split Series With Huskies
4/28/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 28, 2010
SEATTLE, Wash. - A day after hitting three home runs and posting an 11-1 win, Gonzaga University surrendered five home runs and suffered a 12-4 loss to the University of Washington in the final meeting of the season between the two teams Wednesday afternoon.
Gonzaga (14-28-1) scored a pair of runs in each the fourth and fifth innings to tie game but Washington (21-19) broke the tie with a three-run fifth before posting runs in their final three frames to pick up the win.
Drew Heid, Mark Castellitto and Clayton Eslick each drove in a run for the Zags. Castellitto's fourth-inning single extended his hitting streak to 10 games while Heid's team-best 11-game hitting streak came to an end after being held hitless in three at-bats.
The Bulldogs answered a pair of solo homers by the Huskies in the first and second innings with two runs in the fourth inning. Castellitto got things going with a one-out opposite field single through the right side of the infield and Andy Hunter followed with his team-leading 14th double of the season to put runners on second and third. Castellitto then came home during Eslick's at-bat on a balk call before Eslick drove a double into the left centerfield gap to score Hunter and make it a 2-2 game.
Washington came right back to put up two runs of their own on Zags starting pitcher Liam Baron to take a 4-2 advantage through four complete innings.
In the fifth, Gonzaga once tied the game with another two-run inning as Kevin Hawk opened the inning by earning walk and Ernesto Ortiz followed with a double to again put runners on second and third for the Bulldogs. Heid picked up an RBI on his sacrifice fly out to left field that scored Hawk. Tyler Chism then stepped to the plate and pulled a ball through the left side of the infield for the RBI single and tie the game at 4-4.
The Huskies offense continued to answer the Zags scoring and just like the Bulldogs had done on Tuesday, used the long ball to put the game out of reach. Washington used four hits to score three runs in the fifth, a solo homer in the sixth, another solo shot and a pair of RBI base-hits in the seventh before adding another run in the eighth to cap the scoring at 12-4.
The Zags resume West Coast Conference play this weekend, hosting Santa Clara University for a three-game series beginning 6:30 p.m. Friday. Saturday and Sunday's games are slated for 1 p.m. starts. Friday's series-opener will be broadcast on SWX-TV.
