Tuesday Roundup: Trio Of Top-Five Teams Upset



Top 25 Upsets

• No. 3 Baylor's remarkable winning streak is over at 24 games. The Bears were upset at Texas-San Antonio, 4-1—their first loss since March 13. UTSA jumped on Austin Stone for three runs in the first inning, highlighted by Daniel Rockett's two-run single, and Jordan Pacheco (5.1 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K) kept the Baylor offense in check to pick up his first win.

• Louisville smashed No. 2 Kentucky 10-2 to complete a two-game season series sweep of the Wildcats for the first time since 1970. The Cardinals hadn't won back-to-back games against UK since 1998 and '99. Jeff Gardner's two-run ground-rule double highlighted Louisville's six-run third inning, breaking open a 2-1 game. Six Louisville pitchers held the Wildcats to five hits.

• South Florida broke a 3-3 tie with a run in the seventh and added another in the eighth to upset No. 5 Florida, 5-3. Andrew Longley homered twice and drove in three for the Bulls, while Florida got homers from Nolan Fontana and Mike Zunino in its three-run sixth. USF snapped a 12-game losing streak against the Gators and beat a top-10 team for the first time since coach Lelo Prado joined the Bulls in 2007.

• UNC Grensboro pounded out 16 hits in an 8-4 upset of No. 16 North Carolina in Chapel Hill. UNC jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the first, but the Spartans tied the game with three in the second against Chris Munnelly (1.2 IP, 3 H, 4 ER). Trevor Edwards (5-for-6, 2 R, 3 RBI, 2 2B, HR) had a monster game to lead the UNCG attack.

• Oregon State knocked off banged-up Oregon 7-1 in Eugene. The Beavers built an early lead against Jordan Spencer (2 IP, 4 H, 4 ER), who threw a no-hitter last week, and Taylor Starr (7 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 K) made the lead stand up. The Ducks are still without starting shortstop J.J. Altobelli, batting and home run leader Aaron Jones and third-leading hitter Brett Thomas, though Jones is expected to return this weekend and Altobelli could be available to pinch-hit.

• Shon Roe and Cullen Mahoney combined for seven hits and five runs to lead Loyola Marymount to a 6-5 win against No. 8 Cal State Fullerton. Roe's solo homer int he eighth provided the winning run.

• Jacob Wilson (2-for-4, 2 R, 2 RBI) hit his 10th homer of the year in support of Michael Willis (8.1 IP, 9 H, 2 R, 1 ER), leading Memphis to a 4-2 win against No. 18 Mississippi.

Other Highlights

• Austin Wilson (3-for-3, 2 R, 5 RBI, HR) powered Stanford to a 10-9 win against Brigham Young, though the Cougars made things interesting with seven runs in the eighth and another in the ninth. BYU had the tying run at third base with no outs in the ninth before running itself out of an opportunity to tie the game.

• Daniel Mengden (6 IP, 1 H, 1 ER) sparkled in his first career start, and Texas A&M erased 1-0 deficit with four runs over the final two innings to beat Texas Christian 4-1. The win snapped A&M's five-game losing streak.

• Jeff Gelalich (3-for-5, R, RBI) led a 12-hit attack in UCLA's 9-3 win against UC Irvine.

• Kevin Plawecki's two-run homer in the fourth provided the eventual winning run for No. 15 Purdue in a 3-2 victory at Illinois State.

• Seven Arkansas pitchers combined on a one-hitter in a 6-1 win against Oral Roberts. The Razorbacks carried a no-hitter into the ninth inning, and Tim Carver had two homers to lead the Arkansas offense.

• Kyle Wren's tie-breaking RBI double in the ninth propelled Georgia Tech to a 4-2 win over Georgia in front of 19,669 at Turner Field. Alex Cruz (3 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K) picked up the win in relief to improve to 5-1.

• Javi Salas (6 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 10 K) improved to 5-2 in MIami's 3-1 win against Florida Atlantic. The Hurricanes swept the three-game season series against the Owls.

• Rich Witten's two-run double highlighted Coastal Carolina's four-run eighth, propelling the Chanticleers to a 10-7 win at Clemson.

• Brandon Woodruff (4 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 4 K) and two relievers combined on a six-hit shutout in Mississippi State's 5-0 win against Southern Mississippi.

• Six Long Beach State pitchers combined on a four-hit shutout in a 1-0 win at Southern California, as the Dirtbags (tied for first atop the Big West) evened their record at 19-19. The Trojans have lost five of their last six to fall to 20-16 overall.



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