Feb. 15, 2004

Game One Box Score
Game Two Box Score

Waco, TX (Feb.15) - Loyola Marymount baseball dropped both ends of a doubleheader at No. 11 Baylor Sunday afternoon. LMU's comeback bids fell short with the go ahead run at the plate in each of the two games. Senior Will Quaglieri was the tough luck loser in game two as he allowed just one run on three hits in a complete game effort.

In game one, in what seemed like a reversal of the previous night's ballgame, the Lions found themselves down five runs going into the seventh inning just as Baylor had the night before. Like the Bears, the Lions would nearly complete a comeback in the last three innings. LMU scored three runs in the seventh when Kyle Mura led off with a double to left. Elvis Herrera would follow by picking up his first hit as a Lion. They both would score, first Mura on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Joe Frazee and then Herrera on an RBI from Jonathan Higashi.

The Lions would go on to score one more in the seventh on an error and then would climb to within one run after scoring a single run in the eighth. LMU got the tying run aboard in each of the last two innings, but Zane Carlson, the active saves leader in division one baseball would come on to record the final six outs of the game to get his first save of the season.

In the second game of the doubleheader, the Lions (2-2) came up on the short end in an intense pitchers' duel. Baylor (2-1) rode the coattails of Cory VanAllen, who in his first collegiate start, faced just one over the minimum through six plus innings. Quaglieri matched him pitch for pitch allowing just one hit and no walks through five innings while striking out five.

In the sixth inning, the Bears got a one out walk from Seth Fortenberry. He would move to second on an infield single by second baseman Drew Sutton. Third baseman Michael Griffin then singled to center bringing in the lone run of the game in the person of Fortenberry.

VanAllen would go out to the mound for the seventh and final inning, due to the agreed upon rules for the doubleheader, and he would have the tying run reach first base after Billy Lockin's hit up the middle was ruled an error on the second baseman Sutton. Zane Carlson would replace him to try and record his second save of the day and the thirty-sixth of his career. After a sacrifice bunt by Chris Pettit, Carlson got Jonathan Oller to pop out. A wild pitch would allow the tying run Lockin to reach third, but Carlson would strikeout the final batter to the preserve the win for VanAllen and thus combine for a no hitter.

All three games of the series were decided by one run, with the Lions picking up the victory 8-7 Saturday night.

LMU will head home from Waco, TX, and get ready to face Pac-10 foe UCLA at Page Stadium on Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. (PST).

-GO LIONS-