March 24, 2008

Box Score

The Pacific baseball team dropped a 14-0 decision to No. 17 Stanford in the final game of a three-game non-conference baseball series at Klein Family Field on Monday, March 24.

Pacific fell to 5-16 while Stanford improved to 10-5 on the year.

In the first start of the season for junior Casey Neimeyer (Woodland, Calif.), the Cardinal struck for five runs in the first inning. After Neimeyer retired the first two batters, the next six Cardinal batters reached base. Back-to-back RBI doubles by Sean Ratliff and Austin Yount gave Stanford a 3-0 lead, with Yount's accounting for two runs. Zach Jones followed with an RBI single, and Jeff Whitlow drove in Jones with a triple to the left-center gap.

Stanford added a run in the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Cord Phelps. Two more were plated on an RBI single by Brandon Domaracki in the sixth inning. A pinch-hit two-run home run over the left field wall by Brent Millville gave the Cardinal a 10-0 lead in the seventh inning. Stanford added two more runs on RBI doubles in the seventh by pinch-hitter Toby Gerhart and Phelps.

Millville added another two-run home run in the eighth inning, to make it 14-0. The Cardinal out-hit the Tigers 16-5, including 11 extra base hits. Neimeyer took the loss for the Tigers, falling to 0-1. Jeffrey Inman earned the win for the Cardinal, giving up just three hits and striking out eight over six innings. He took a no-hitter into the fifth inning and improves to 2-0 on the season. Max Fearnow pitched the final three innings for the Cardinal to pick up his first save of the year, allowing one run and three hits.

In his first appearance of 2008, junior Joey Centanni (San Diego, Calif.) pitched four innings in relief for the Tigers, allowing just one run on three hits. Sophomore Hunter Carnevale (Roseville, Calif.) retired the Cardinal in order in the ninth.

Senior Adam Ching (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) had three of Pacific's five hits.

The Tigers are next in action with a three-game series that begins on Friday, March 28 at UC Davis.