Tuesday’s schedule was chock full of the normal quality matchups, and five top 25 teams played extra-inning games. A quick roundup:
• No. 1 Miami was pushed to 11 innings by frisky Florida Gulf Coast before outfielder Dave DiNatale hit a walk-off two-run homer.
• No. 7 UC Irvine blew a 5-0 lead against UCLA but scored the winning run in the 10th inning in typical Anteater fashion: with an Ollie Linton walk, a Ben Orloff sacrifice bunt and a Jeff Cusick RBI single.
• No. 17 Kentucky beat instate-rival Louisville 7-6 on Keenan Wiley’s walk-off homer to lead off the 12th. Wiley went 4-for-6 out of the No. 9 hole, exemplifying the kind of production the Wildcats have gotten all year from up and down their lineup.
• Anthony Vasquez doubled and scored in the 11th to give Southern California a 5-4 win against No. 16 Cal State Fullerton.
• Sean Stuyverson’s walk-off solo homer in the 10th gave No. 18 Mississippi a 6-5 win over South Alabama.
In addition to USC’s upset, a few other ranked teams went down Tuesday. No. 4 North Carolina fell 2-0 against Elon despite a fine outing by freshman righthander Patrick Johnson (5 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 7 K). No. 20 Long Beach State dropped a 7-3 decision against Loyola Marymount to finish its 10-game road trip with a 1-9 mark. No. 14 Georgia’s bats were shut down in a 5-1 loss to Winthrop. And North Carolina State cruised to a 12-5 win against No. 22 UNC Wilmington.
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Posted by Gator 13 | April 19, 2008 at 4:09 pm | ShortcutIt is time to pay attention to Florida Gulf Coast’s top pitcher, junior lefty Richard Bleier, who improved to 6-0 with a dominating complete game 11 strikeout performance against Jacksonville on Friday.