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Heid Posts Four Hits In Bulldogs Loss To Huskies
4/7/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 7, 2010
SPOKANE, Wash. - Drew Heid's four-hit performance was not enough for Gonzaga University who suffered a 5-1 defeat to the University of Washington at the Patterson Baseball Complex and Washington Trust Field Wednesday afternoon.
Heid finished the day 4-for-4 and Cameron Edman added three hits for the Bulldogs (11-17) who received an eight-inning effort from starting pitcher Andrew Danner. The Huskies took advantage of three Gonzaga errors to improve to 16-11.
Washington scored its first run of the game in the second as a Bulldog error with two outs allowed the inning to continue and Huskies followed the miscue with a two-out base hit to take a 1-0 lead.
Danner settled in after that to post four straight scoreless frames by working around two UW singles in the third inning before striking out the side in the fourth and retiring the Huskies in order in the fifth. The junior lefthander then made some pitches to strand two Washington runners in the sixth and added two more strikeouts in the seventh. UW finally got the Danner and again took advantage of another miscue to score two in the eighth before they added a couple more insurance runs in ninth off of reliever Jacob Hiatt to build a 5-0 lead.
Gonzaga missed out on a couple scoring opportunities throughout the afternoon as Heid was stranded at second in the sixth inning after he had led off the frame with a double. Trailing 3-1 the Zags again couldn't catch a break after Heid again reached on a single and one batter later Gonzaga's leading run producer Andy Hunter lined a bullet right to the Washington second baseman to end the eighth inning.
UW dodged a Gonzaga comeback attempt in the ninth. After Kevin Hawk drove in the Zags run with a RBI-single, Washington reliever Jacob Clum got Royce Bolinger to ground into a game-ending 5-4-3 double play and take the second game in as many days from the Bulldogs.
Danner (1-1) took the loss despite allowing just one earned run and striking out a career high nine.
Gonzaga begins defense of its West Coast Conference title this weekend, heading to the University of San Francisco for a three-game series.
