Feb. 15, 2004

Box Score

Dawgs Rout San Diego In Finale

San Diego, CA- No. 23 Washington took the rubber match of a three-game series with host San Diego by a final score of 13-3 Sunday afternoon at USD's Cunningham Stadium. The Huskies put seven runs on the board in the first three innings and received outstanding pitching from starter RH Keaton Everitt en route to improving its record to 2-1. San Diego drops to 4-8 overall and prepares to face UC Riverside in a three-game weekend series beginning Friday at 2pm in San Diego.

Torero starter LH Justin Blaine (1-2) was touched up for five earned runs on seven hits through two plus innings. Washington shortstop Brent Lillibridge took the first pitch of the game over the left field wall to put the Huskies in front 1-0. USD would tie the game on an RBI double by Josh Hansen that scored Tom Caple in the bottom half of the first inning.

Washington's offense chased Blaine in the third after a double by Greg Isaacson scored Tyler Mach to make the score 5-1. USD reliever RH Brian Jones came on and promptly yielded a two-RBI single by Lillibridge to extend the Huskie advantage to 7-1. On the day Lillibridge was 3-for-5 with three RBI.

Everitt, Washington's sophomore starter, improved to 1-0- cruising through five innings of work, facing 17 batters and allowing just two hits. The relief combination of Joel Villalobos and Kyle Parker came on to throw three innings of hitless baseball for 12th-year Huskie head coach Ken Knutson.

With the score 7-1 in Washington's favor in the eighth, the Huskies poured it on via a two-RBI double from John Otness that sparked an inning in which UW scored five runs to make it a 12-1 game.

USD freshman Steve Singleton hit a two-RBI double off Washington LH Jamie Hawkins in the ninth to account for all the scoring.