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Southern Utah Comes Back To Win
March 23, 2000 | Baseball
March 23, 2000
CEDAR CITY, Utah - The Washington baseball team squandered a 6-1 lead as Southern Utah came back to beat the Huskies, 14-7, Thursday at Thunderbird Park.
With the victory, the T-Birds took two out of three games in the series and improved to 9- 10. Washington fell to 7-11 with the loss.
With the UW ahead 7-3 going into the bottom of the sixth, Southern Utah posted four runs, including two on a Curtis Dickenson RBI double, to tie the score. In the seventh, SUU exploded for seven more runs, capitalizing on eight hits, a walk and two Husky errors.
Reliever Michael Done (0-2) took the loss for Washington, allowing three runs in one inning-plus. Justin Kittrell (1-1) picked up the win for the Thunderbirds.
Freshman third baseman Bryan Johnson, making his second start, belted a two-run home run, the first of his career. Todd Linden contributed two hits and two RBI for the Huskies.
Friday, the Huskies travel to Los Angeles, where they'll open up the Pac-10 Conference schedule against UCLA on Saturday. Saturday's and Sunday's games against the Bruins -- both at 1:00 p.m. -- will air live on KKOL AM-1300 in Seattle.
LINESCORE at Thunderbird Park, Cedar City, Utah Southern Utah 14, Washington 7 Washington 123 001 000 -- 7 10 3 Southern Utah 100 024 70x -- 14 17 1 Randy Vanderplow, Michael Done (6), Brian Barton (7), Taylor Grant (7), Tyler Shepple (8) and Tim Rice. James Anderson, Justin Kittrell (7), Steven Stoker (9) and Chad Grundy. W - Kittrell (1-1). L - Done (0-2). 2B - UW, Ed Erickson, SU, Todd Mitchell, Keith Dickenson 2, Luke Geddes. HR - UW, Bryan Johnson (1), SU, Geddes (1). T - 2:49. A - 171.
