March 8, 2016 Box Score
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- The University of San Diego baseball team dropped a heartbreaking 13-11 ten-inning decision to William and Mary in the first game of a double-header Tuesday evening at Fowler Park.
The Tribe (6-5) got on the scoreboard first, as they pushed across three runs on four hits in the top of the first inning. The William and Mary runs came on RBI singles by Charles Ameer, Jason Waldman, and Hunter Smith to take the early momentum.
San Diego (5-7) answered right back in the bottom half of the frame, by scoring three runs on four hits. Three consecutive singles by Jeff Houghtby, Jerod Smith and Riley Adams set the table for the Toreros. Ryan Kirby then hit a 2-run single up the middle, and Troy Conyers hit a sacrifice fly to centerfield, scoring the final run, to move the score to 3-all.
The Tribe then went on to score two runs in the third, and one in the fourth to take a 6-3 lead, before a Kevin Collard grand slam in the bottom of the fourth, gave USD a 7-5 lead.
The wildness continued in the fifth, as William and Mary scored four runs, and USD answered back with two in the bottom of the fifth, then the Tribe scored one in the top of the ninth to take a 11-9 lead.
San Diego put on their rally caps and scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the ninth on a fielding error by the Tribe right fielder, and an RBI single by Brhett Bewley, to force extra innings.
In the extra frame, the Tribe were able to score a pair of runs on Ameer 2-run single, and USD could not score a run, despite getting the first two batters on base, to leave the game at its final of 13-11.
Offensively for the Toreros, Kirby led the way, as he went 2-for-5 with two RBI. Houghtby, Conyers, Hunter Mercado-Hood, and Bewley all recorded multiple hits as well.
Jacob Hill (0-1) was saddled with the loss on the mound for the Toreros, as he allowed one run on no hits in 0.1 innings of work. William and Mary's Joseph Gaouette (1-0) picked up the win, as he allowed two runs on three hits in 2.0 innings of work. Robert White picked up his first save of the season, as he allowed no runs on one hit in 1.0 innings of work.
