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UW Closes Out Opening Weekend With Loss To Air Force
February 20, 2011 | Baseball
Feb. 20, 2011
SAN MARCOS, Texas - The Washington baseball team scored six runs in the ninth, but couldn't overcome a large deficit as the Huskies closed out their opening weekend of the 2011 season with a 16-10 loss to Air Force Sunday at the Texas State Tournament.
The Huskies fell to 1-2 on the season. The UW beat Missouri State in the opener before dropping games to Nebraska and Air Force, which improved to 2-1 with Sunday's win.
Air Force scored in each of its first seven innings. Falcons starter Michael Ceci (1-0) went seven innings, allowing two runs, for the victory. UW starter Aaron West (0-1) suffered the loss, giving up six runs over two-plus innings.
Washington sophomore Chase Anselment went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles and two runs batted in while classmate Jacob Lamb was 2-for-5 with his second homer of the weekend, along with a double. Huskies Brendan Gardner-Young and Troy Scott also drove in a pair of runs. Patrick Lobo led the Falcons' offense, going 3-for-4 with four RBI.
Air Force got started in the first as Alex Bast doubled to drive in one and then scored on a single from Seth Kline.
In the second, back-to-back, run-scoring triples from Lobo and Garrett Custons sparked a rally. Custons then scored on a single from Blair Roberts, staking the Falcons to a 5-0 lead.
The Falcons made it 8-0 in the third as Lobo drove in two with a bases-loaded single and Roberts sent home another with a base hit.
Washington scored its first run in the fourth when Anselment doubled down the right-field line and then scored on a two-out single from Troy Scott.
Air Force's Nathan Carter led off the bottom of the fourth with a home run and Custons hit a two-run homer in the fifth to stretch the lead to 11-1.
Lamb opened the sixth with his second homer of the season, to right center, but Air Force answered with two more in the bottom of the inning on an RBI single from Val Schierholtz and a sacrifice fly from Lobo. Parker Mayo's three-run homer in the seventh made it 16-2.
In the top of the eighth, the UW's Eric Peterson singled and Lamb doubled. Anselment followed with a two-run double to make it 16-4.
Washington rallied for six runs in the ninth. Brian Wolfe walked and eventually scored on an error. After the bases were loaded, Gardner-Young doubled to drive in two. Scott followed with a two-run single and Willy Reel doubled to drive in another, closing out the Huskies' scoring for the day.
The Huskies travel for a three-game series at Cal State Bakersfield next Friday through Sunday and then open the home schedule on Thursday, March 3, with the first of three games vs. BYU.
LINESCORE Texas State Tournament Air Force 16, Washington 10 Washington 000 101 026 -- 10 13 0 Air Force 233 122 30x -- 16 18 2 Aaron West, Austin Voth (3), Cordell Greene (5), Ben Guidos (6), Zach Wright (8) and B.K. Santy, Chase Anselment (7). Michael Ceci, Cameron White (8), Luke Dorlac (9), Mike Kazakoff (9) and Parker Mayo. W - Ceci (1-0). L - West (0-1). 2B - UW, Spencer Rogers, Anselment 2, Jacob Lamb, Brendan Gardner-Young, Willy Reel; AF, Alex Bast. 3B - AF, Patrick Lobo, Garrett Custons. HR - UW, Lamb (2); AF, Nathan Carter (1), Custons (1), Mayo (1). Records: UW 1-2; AF 2-1.
