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4
San Diego USD 12-14
8
Winner San Francisco USF 17-8
San Diego USD
12-14
4
Final
8
San Francisco USF
17-8
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
San Diego USD 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 10 0
San Francisco USF 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 X 8 14 2

W: Ponticelli, Thomas (5-0) L: RICHAN, Paul (2-4)

Game Recap: Baseball |

BSB | Dons Score Early and Often to Remain Unbeaten in WCC Play

THE RUNDOWN
SAN FRANCISCO- The San Francisco Dons continued their win streak while remaining perfect in the WCC by beating the University of San Diego Toreros 8-4.

For the eleventh time this season the Dons scored in the first inning. Jonathan Allen led off with a walk, then Riley Helland got the scoring started with a double off the wall to give the Dons a 1-0 lead. Later, the Dons would tack on another run on a Ross Puskarich single.

The Dons took a 3-0 lead in the third inning on Allen's base hit and stole a base to put himself in scoring position for Michael Perri to pick up his 20th RBI of the season. The fourth inning started with back-to-back singles from RJ Cordeiro and Aaron Ping. A sacrifice bunt from Nick Yovetich put the two Dons in scoring position. Tyler Villaroman then lifted a sac fly to extend the Dons lead to 4-0. In the fifth inning Allen, who was 4-for-4 on the day, would continue his stellar day with a lead-off single to right field and came around to score on Perri's double to put USF up 5-0.

Thomas Ponticelli took the mound for USF and held the Toreros to two runs on seven hits, while only walking one. He went eight innings and struck out nine. Ponticelli faced some trouble in the seventh inning after a throwing error moved a runner into scoring position. The next batter up hit a homerun to bring the score to 6-2. Ponticelli neutralized the threat striking out the next two batters.

In the bottom half of the seventh the Dons got a run back on a sac fly from Perri who collected 3 RBI's, and two more in the eighth to make it 8-2, Dons. Brendan Jenkins came on in the ninth and gave up 3 hits and a walk, and striking out two.

The Toreros made it interesting cutting the lead to 4 by scoring two runs, to bring the final tally to 8-4. The Dons are now 17-8 overall and 7-0 in conference.

COACHES CORNER
USF Head coach Nino Giarratano


GAME STATS
  • Jonathan Allen stole his team leading seventh base, and is now 7-for-8 in steals on the year.
  • Michael Perri knocked in three RBI's to bring his total to 22, which leads the team.
  • Thomas Ponticelli now leads the team with 53 strikeouts following his nine strikeout day today.
  • Riley Helland extends his on-base streak to 23 straight games, going 2-for-5 on the day.
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