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Saturday, April 1, 2000
Spartans
vanquish VulcansSan Jose State's Joey Baker got the better of Hawaii-Hilo's Thomas Ford in a Western Athletic Conference pitchers' duel last night as the Spartans defeated the Vulcans, 4-2, at Hilo's Wong Stadium.
The second game of a three-game series unfolded in stark contrast to the 27-hit, error-laden opener, won by the Spartans, 17-7. Both teams tightened up on defense and got solid pitching, Baker finishing with a six-hitter and eight strikeouts to win for the fifth time in nine decisions.
Ford (3-3) allowed four hits and two earned runs in six innings-plus. He was lifted in the seventh with none out, two runners on base and the game tied, 2-2.
Reliever Joe Bell got two outs before Tony Tognetti's grounder skipped over the glove of UHH shortstop Brandon Chaves and both runners scored.
The Spartans (20-10, 7-4 WAC) and Vulcans (13-20, 4-10) were to play the series finale today at Kailua-Kona.
Spartans 4, Vulcans 2
San Jose St. ab r h bi Hawaii-Hilo ab r h bi Stream 2b 4 1 1 0 Rooke cf 4 0 1 1 Brucker cf 1 1 0 0 Chaves ss 2 0 0 0 Ruiz lf 3 2 1 0 Ryan 2b 3 0 0 0 Fagan 1b 4 0 1 2 Park dh 3 0 0 0 Tognetti 3b 4 0 0 0 Petersen rf 4 0 1 0 Macchi rf 5 0 1 0 Yee 1b 4 0 0 0 Hiegel dh 4 0 0 0 Hobbs 3b 3 1 1 0 Shorsher c 3 0 0 0 McCracken c 2 0 2 1 Patchett ss 3 0 2 0 Miura lf 3 1 1 0
San Jose St. 200 000 200 - 4 6 0 Hawaii-Hilo. 002 000 000 - 2 6 3 E-Chaves 2, Yee. DP-SJS 2, UHH 1. LOB-SJS 12, UHH 4.
2B-Ruiz, Fagan, Macchi, McCracken. SB-Tognetti, Hobbs, Miura 3. CS-Brucker, McCracken. Sac-Brucker, Fagan, Ryan.
ip h r er bb so San Jose St. Baker (W, 5-4) 9 6 2 2 3 8 Hawaii-Hilo Ford (L, 3-3) 6 4 4 2 7 5 Bell 1 0 0 0 0 1 Siff 1 1 0 0 0 1 Lippert 1 1 0 0 0 1 PB-Shorsher. HBP-Hiegel, Ruiz (by Ford), Chaves (by Baker), Tognetti (by Lippert).
Umpires-Tomasewski (plate), Henderson (first), Ausmus (third). T-2:49. A-332.
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